My level of worry hasn’t lowered in years…

But honestly? Low on the totem pole. Even with Trumpy governments.

Things like engagement optimized social media warping people’s minds for profit, the internet outside of apps dying before our eyes, Sam Altman/OpenAI trying to squelch open source generative models so we’re dependent on their Earth burning plans, blatant, open collusion with the govt, everything turning into echo chambers… There are just too many disasters for me to even worry about the government spying on me.

If I lived in China or Russia, the story would be different. I know, I know. But even now, I’m confident I can given the U.S. president the middle finger in my country, but I’d really be more scared for my life in more authoritarian strongman regions.

Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

Is this Flux?

I noticed its really weird about generating glowing eyed people.

Wait, what is it? Is it Flux dev?

It’s crazy that Twitter has such an outsized influence on the public, and I think it’s because news outlets amplify it so much.

It doesn’t have that many active users. And news rarely covers other platforms when something makes a lot of noise and reaches many eyeballs.

I still have to keep Windows around for (ironically) performance reasons.

Some sim games like Rimworld and Stellaris just have a big hit on linux for me, native or Proton. And in a sim game, that means slow turns and stutters you can’t avoid instead of slightly lesser graphics. And it’s not sublte, native stellaris is like a good 30%-40% slower with even higher spikes last time I benched them back to back.

It totally kills interest in the device though. Its like they think every single buyer is an impulse buyer who just looks at the demo in Best Buy without even looking it up or trying it.

It’s really sad, as it kills the end product for no good reason. Just theoretical pennies.

I mean, Windows would be fine if the OEM stripped it down instead of bloating it even more. They can totally do with with group policies.

I honestly don’t know what they were thinking here.

They just can’t help themselves, lol.

All that bloat is bad enough on a laptop, but its the absolute last thing a handheld needs, both for performance/battery and ergonomics.

Some places on a “budget” like Ao3 just rate limit hard.

I don’t like that solution at all though.

That’s what I figured, but I am envisioning a future where lemmy is huge and the network of admins is quite sizable.

I guess that doesn’t change much?

Would lemmy instances do this?

I know they can’t afford to now, but hypothetically? A lot of people here don’t seem to like data scraping for AI.

Yeah. Normally I wouldn’t care, but when the colonies/galaxies get big, even a 30% TPS hit or whatever starts to feel very painful.

I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.