Nagaram

I run my copy of Deepseek on a RTX 3060 12 gig that cost $300 and uses less than $5 a month of electricity. That's assuming it ran full tilt 24/7 (it does not). It just helps me write hobby code and read manuals for my tech stack. It has helped my process so much as a Systems admin.

It really is a useful tool and a very pleasing one when you're not giving OpenAI free access to your credit card.

I think people are right to downplay it a bit. I was watching Alex Avila's "AI Wars" earlier and he was sort of defending the hype about AIs capabilities. Which I agree with but I don't think the average person understands the nuances in an LLMs ability. It isn't thinking at the end of the day. It is trying to satisfy the human audience enough to receive math rewards. It's a dog doing a really elaborate trick in hopes of a treat. But to a lay person it is fully thinking and feeling.

This is not a dangerous stance per se unless we start hooking ChatGPT up to the "please decide who dies" machine. It just wants to please it's masters and nothing would make Unitedhealth happier than never having to pay out insurance. Nothing would make the DoD happier than justifying the vaporization of foreign brown people based on an AI analysis.

You're right, it's just a tool. And a hammer can build a house or crush a skull. But I think we should be okay with a bit of luddism if it stops people from dangling over the nuke button and saying the hammer falling gets to kill us all.

Get an unlocked Google Pixel A series.

Google has been very good about making their pixels repairable and open to tinker with while also not sucking like a dedicated libre phone would be like a Pine phone.

Unfortunately it does come stock with AI bullshit, but that's going to be a problem anyways unless you buy a phone not getting security updates.

However, Google made these things so open you can flash a new OS on it that does respect privacy like GrapheneOS of Calyxos if you're willing. I highly recommend looking up some video tutorials on it to see if you're able to do that or willing to try.

In my opinion that's the best way to get a modern "premium" phone feel and also not have all your shit is data mined all the time.

Worst case it's pretty easy to not use AI stuff on a Pixel. I have avoided it on my work phone for a while. It's not annoying about it. Well, it might be, but it's sending the annoying stuff to a Gmail I don't use.

I mean, it's true. It's actually only came up when I tried playing Oblivion Remastered on my 6600 XT.

Also the min specs on that game are a lie

Thank the gods! I hate clicking a news article and seeing "accept all" and "click here to choose settings"

Expanding lore for towns that might be thrown away I think is a good use.

Feed it a few notes you want to make sure get included, drop some hooks you like and let it weave it in.

Something I always struggle with is deciding which NPCs are "expendable" Bec once I write a story for them I don't want them to die, because I know my players won't remember them fondly but if it's AI slop stories then it's fine.

Edit: I'm building for DnD/TTRPGs if that's not obvious

Hell I have no faith that would get fixed in my life. So I got snipped

Partner and I have VERY expensive medical issues. Not going to make a kid go through that

I'm working on getting off mine. The P365 XL just fit so good in my hand and my budget :(

Shame they're scummy even by war profiter standards.

I touched fentanyl once without having an instantaneous, violent seizure about it or being tempted to OD in the bathroom on it.

But that's because I'm not a cop and therefore better than them.

It just doesn't feel possible to make any consumer safety regulation for guns that wouldn't ultimately "infringe" as it were.

At the end of the day it was always designed to cause massive bodily harm at a distance. Hell, Sig could just remarket the 320 as a competition pistol for like the consumer accuracy division or whatever because of the "competition read light trigger pull" and then it's a compelling sell.

Remember the little brother controller?

This is him now!

I'm interested! PMed

I love playing Warhammer games because they're always easier to play versions of better games. Only problem is they're more expensive for no reason other than Warhammer tax.