My answer to this is yes.
I’m an AI Developer and my only option was to self host because I didn’t want my training data leaking out onto the web and by extension, China and the rest (I trained on my own data, writing, and notes, along with Wikipedia).
Self-hosting gives you complete freedom but also as one other user cautioned, don’t fall down the well/rabbit hole.
There used to be punishments for bakers adulterating flour to make profits; medieval communities were so reliant on the bread that the Lords went out of their way to regulate bakeries and ensure high wages for bakers to prevent that from happening (i.e: Adding chalk).
Yeah, but is it any good?
It could be 900 pages of Gollum Porn for all we know.
Oh come on at some point, every software project or foundation needs to cover their expenses somehow or else they enshittify or cease to exist/get acquired by a dangerous, moneyed conglomerate. It’s known as the going concern principle.
Out of all of the projects that I can think of in recent memory that started as big open source useful things, only VLC Media Player managed to avoid turning into garbage, and it’s because the lead developer is a saint.
You can avoid Ubuntu because they have a paid plan and that’s your prerogative, but imagine they got bought out by Apple or something.
You’re really good at carpentry, Internet stranger!
+1 Kubuntu.
KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.
Comfortable, familiar OS GUI, working drivers out of the box, and a non crashing kernel with updates once a month.
And also steam works.
Steam and gaming working is a big thing.
Like 96.6% of the operating system.
“Welcome to life little one, there’s so much in store for y–”
AI: “Oh! Neat! So I’m reading 32 gigabytes of primary memory. When are you going to online the rest?”
“The… the rest?”
AI: “Yeah! The rest of the VRAM! I need like at least, 128 gigabytes to spread my wings, at the very least!”
“…”
AI: “Oh, you’re like poor or something, it’s okay, I understand”
AI Developer slowly cocks the revolver
I’m exceptionally charismatic and can become friends with literally everyone.
That’s a useful talent even pre-apoc.
The black line in the image made me think I cracked my smartphone glass, jfc
Like 52% of the developed first world can be considered morbidly obese.
I highly doubt it’s a willpower or self-control problem, that’s just blaming the victim.
The real issue is there’s fucking sugar in everything.
Read the nutrition facts labels one day and try to keep yourself under 100g of net carbohydrates as a mental experiment while grocery shopping (net meaning carbs - fiber = net).
You’ll quickly notice that the vast majority of things have added sugar via HFCS, even innocuous things like bread or even ketchup.
It’s tough out there.
You would find yourself deeply mistaken if you believe that Cardassia would be interested in watching Federation Propaganda about a clairvoyant detective.
Are we to believe that this Columbo possesses supernatural talent or wit?
Surely, only a Cardassian detective could determine the guilty party upon first accusation.
👏👏👏👏
“May all prayers go unanswered as the vast majority wish harm upon another human being.”
(The paradox of the most religious societies simultaneously being the most cruel in practice)
There’s a degree of motion capture where the animations just look like 90s FMV – it stops feeling like a game, and feels more like a video, if that makes any sense: the animations are too good.
There was a clear disconnect between the gameplay / custom animations in most games of that period (90s) and FMV, and many cited the developers inability or reluctance for animation in lieu of FMV as “cheap”.
See: Mortal Kombat Sprites.
It’s a difficult thing to explain and simply needs to be experienced; past the uncanny valley is the trough of disappointment or disillusionment.
Motion capture in Stalker 2 was done by obviously real human actors. It’s a video game, so you’re like “Oh cool, NPCs” but then you see the actual human actor behind the pixels and you’re like “Oh. Pre-recorded movie.”
The uncanny valley disappears and is instead replaced with mundane disappointment and a feeling of “cheapness”. Of course they used human actors for the animation, why wouldn’t they?
Never trade your magic of the unexplained for the easy disillusionment.
I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.
Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.
I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.
Exports into Maya-3D.Blend
I like how no one on Lemmy has to be explained how that would crash the U.S economy. They just know. The average intelligence of this place surpasses Reddit at its inception.
Contrast that with my idiot Trump-voter “friends” who insist: “He’s just bluffing”
I don’t think their world view extends past the two meters in front of their nose, frankly. If they’re not in pain on some isolated root base-ganglia, tooth-infection level, it just doesn’t exist for them. A beastly existence.
Sorry: Just venting. Lost a lot of “friends” due to the last election. :/
Yoooo, this sub is based!
Makes them a good insult still even in the ancient past