Jesus, I had to do a double take because I thought the stick person had somehow trapped a little human inside a pod for their entertainment and I was so confused.
No thank you, I like my women flesh and blood. Or if technology gets way better than I expect it to in my lifetime: thinking feeling beings capable of choosing to leave with soft bits.
Lol, I feel bad for anyone new to the pc building community. At least those of us with 10+ year old computers at this point can play most of the indie games coming out. I AM still surprised by how intensive some games can be when they look like minecraft downgrades.
Kind of funny story, I launched Stardew valley yesterday and my displays absolutely shit themselves even though my graphics card is pretty new. Turned out that nvidias stupid app had changed the display settings to something weird. I had to manually flip it back to borderless and that fixed it but at first I was like "how out of everything I've played is this the one having problems?"
My wife started Stardew valley the other day and we also had display issues trying to output 4K. Still had to max out the zoom and even then the dialog boxes are cut off until you zoom out. Unlucky
Probably not the issue, but if you're outputting 4k, is it to a tv? I had an issue with a big screen having its own weird zoom settings (the old widescreen/cinema/whatever).
We're outputting to a projector, but the UI is what's actually cutting it off unfortunately. I'm sure there is fix out there somewhere with a game this popular, I just need to do some digging 😁
Tbh, the whole card format feels very legacy, even for my Vega 56 "dual slot" card, and that thing "only" consumes ~230W.
If ppl back then could've foreseen what obscenely power hungry parts would be shoehorned into the expansion card format, they probably would've chosen a different approach for GPUs specifically.
Modularity is nice — both for personal preference reasons and incentivizing-market-competition reasons — but it does come at a cost.
The thing is: even in our modular world right now, you don’t really have many choices. Two CPU companies, three GPU companies (two of them being the same as the CPU companies)…
We could someday have a world where PC hardware is technically less modular than it is today but consumers have more choices in the marketplace than they do today.
Kinda hard to do when so many GPU vendors slap their memory and power circuits all over the place. Even if the die is in the same place cooler manufacturers would need to test fit a bajillion models, and on top of that they'd need insane R&D budgets to keep up with new additions, sometimes coming years after the original gpu comes out
My concerns were more about the airflow path and less about actually interchangeable coolers, although those are a thing.
Like it just feels wrong to blast the air into a solid PCB... That's kind of solved with flow through designs, but a tower style cooler would probably be less noisy.
I was joking about it being 2.5 slots, tbf most modern cards should be triple slots. Mine is 300W and it's pretty chunky to stay below 60C, best option for big cards is a horizontal mobo imo
edit: unpopular opinion but I'd rather have a chunky card that stays cool as fuck than a slim one, that's why I picked up the Nitro when I had a 6650XT
You see, the big mistake in 2029 was the person installing Windows. Now they can see the horrible data center right outside of their house. As they say, out of sight, out of mind.
i thought about how to reply to this a bunch... because like - ur totally right-- but also i felt somewhat unnecessarily attacked >~<
the controversial post i would have made would have been with the following content
::: spoiler content of post
i would have drawn an angry man hitting a computer, with the text of my comment:
somethingsomething
AI BAD!
in a round kind of way ~
with bottom text
(now go and like my post)
the goal would be to make it look as if it were generated using openais image gen 1 model, so i would have
looked at some generations from that model to match that cartoon style
made sure to make some of the text slightly mangled
overlayed a tea-color and dense noise filter which that model is known for
similar like how another post tried to, this one would essentially bait for being flagged as ai... dunno why, but i thought that was funny. it also would have made fun of people actually posting their low quality slop made using the most lazy prompting.
it also would have played on the "hate-post" thing, which tends to amount looooots of likes and stuff ~
(see all the "the bubble is bursting" and "ai makes u dumb" videos)
:::
::: spoiler sketch of post
a sketch i made just for this comment <3
:::
You are absolutely right ✅—the stuff isnt a fun novelty anymore and its primarily being used by bad people for bad things and now even in war apparently.
so like..... its not like im pro-ai, see this post- im very much aware of the evil and the bad happening, more so than most anti-ai peeps i believe.
ive been around the bubble because i find the topic intellectually stimulating. the idea of curating some data to let a prediction mechanism grab onto those patterns to predict following sequences-- just seems like an interesting engineering process, especially when it comes to behavioural analysis.
but over time ive been disappointed, as the majority of that bubble is made of disgusting people, business people and spammers with only a few people interested in doing fun research.
over the last year or so, ive been moving away from the ai bubble. removing discords, bookmarks, yt channels and even local language models from my devices (besides my phones keyboard auto-correct... i wont let u peeps take that away from me!)
i did post plenty stuff on lemmy concerning the topic--- but like - all of em were either jokes, technical stuff or ideas (correct me if im wrong, may have forgotten something)
i do have a character flaw, but not the one you portrayed:
::: spoiler the character flaw i believe i have
when i see a topic being dominated by one opinion, i usually want to know where the other side is coming from. why do people vote for trump? why would anyone be pro-ai? who in their right mind would not want to at least try pineapple on pizza?
then once i understand the other side (which is usually more nuanced than the "right side" likes to imagine) makes a lot more sense to me.
:::
this is where imma leave it i think... might still make that post tho--- for the funzies-
(yes, the comment was generated entirely by a human brain connected to a human body)
EDIT: for anyone whos not aware: i dont dabble with image, video and audio generation stuff... not my thing.
58 Comments
trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 83 pts · 195d
Jesus, I had to do a double take because I thought the stick person had somehow trapped a little human inside a pod for their entertainment and I was so confused.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 195d
I'm still confused. What is the little pod and detritus around it supposed to represent?
I get the broken piggy-bank (and hammer?), not sure what else is going on..
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 86 pts · 195d
CES 2026 Really Wants You to Own a Holographic Anime Girlfriend
at Gizmodo
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 195d
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 30 pts · 195d
You don't need to read further to find out. Ed Zitron attended and called it the "Anti-Consumer Electronics Show".
That formulation is by the journalist, I just copied the headline.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 194d
Nice
Can’t believe they let him in
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 190d
From what I see, you actually have control over that. So it's up to you.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d
No thank you, I like my women flesh and blood. Or if technology gets way better than I expect it to in my lifetime: thinking feeling beings capable of choosing to leave with soft bits.
Fuck this shit is sad
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 194d
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 194d
Yeah, but digital ones are byte size
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 3 pts · 193d
So youbare holding out for the physical Terminator version.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 193d
I'll respect AI girlfriends when they're self cleaning, same as real girlfriends
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 2 pts · 193d
Like a UV system in the mouth?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 193d
I was thinking soap and water but if you're nasty like that sure
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 190d
How about the sexy anime guy that they also have in the avatar selection? Or the disembodied Razer logo cloud thing avatar?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Listen, I'd fuck a cryptic but that's the closest I'd get to either of those
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 194d
Haha, holy crap. Hadn't seen that. Thankyou.
Razer releasing a holo-wife is not a thing I ever imagined.
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 195d
It would be pretty sick if I could shove a Cortana into it tho...
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 195d
Thank God, I thought it was analogue to the pony in a jar meme.
normalentrance@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 194d
Thanks for the context. I figured the comic was just ai slop itself..
schildfrosch@feddit.org · 2 pts · 195d
and my dumb ass thought it was a phone
PineRune@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 195d
I remember seeing a recent Kickstarter that has a sort of holographic AI friend in a "container" like that, and it reached funding far past its goal.
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 195d
There’s also this thing by Razer
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Fucking gamers…
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 194d
I got the holo-waifu, but not the broken piggy bank, I thought it was a bong
IpsumLauren@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
I think it represents a phone.
9point6@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 195d
Maybe I'm not awake enough yet but I'm still not seeing anything other than tiny human in a pod
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 194d
I thought it was a verification can.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 194d
I thought it was an homunculus.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 38 pts · 195d
Lol, I feel bad for anyone new to the pc building community. At least those of us with 10+ year old computers at this point can play most of the indie games coming out. I AM still surprised by how intensive some games can be when they look like minecraft downgrades.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 194d
Kind of funny story, I launched Stardew valley yesterday and my displays absolutely shit themselves even though my graphics card is pretty new. Turned out that nvidias stupid app had changed the display settings to something weird. I had to manually flip it back to borderless and that fixed it but at first I was like "how out of everything I've played is this the one having problems?"
87Six@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 194d
Tx I'll send this to bro that still thinks AMD is the one that makes shit drivers
AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 194d
My wife started Stardew valley the other day and we also had display issues trying to output 4K. Still had to max out the zoom and even then the dialog boxes are cut off until you zoom out. Unlucky
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 194d
Probably not the issue, but if you're outputting 4k, is it to a tv? I had an issue with a big screen having its own weird zoom settings (the old widescreen/cinema/whatever).
AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 193d
We're outputting to a projector, but the UI is what's actually cutting it off unfortunately. I'm sure there is fix out there somewhere with a game this popular, I just need to do some digging 😁
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 195d
You can pry my "double" slot GPU out of my cold dead hands (good luck trying to run away with it, it's heavy as fuck and needs a supporting post)
autriyo@feddit.org · 17 pts · 195d
Tbh, the whole card format feels very legacy, even for my Vega 56 "dual slot" card, and that thing "only" consumes ~230W.
If ppl back then could've foreseen what obscenely power hungry parts would be shoehorned into the expansion card format, they probably would've chosen a different approach for GPUs specifically.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 11 pts · 195d
iGPUs should have been a better option, but they were hamstrung by PCI conventions and graphics APIs favoring discrete VRAM.
(Just look at how x86 SoC consoles run circles around similar-spec PCs.)
I’m hoping that ARM is a chance to reset.
autriyo@feddit.org · 3 pts · 194d
I do like the modularity of discrete GPUs though.
But a cooling setup similar to CPUs would've been better for airflow.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 5 pts · 194d
Modularity is nice — both for personal preference reasons and incentivizing-market-competition reasons — but it does come at a cost.
The thing is: even in our modular world right now, you don’t really have many choices. Two CPU companies, three GPU companies (two of them being the same as the CPU companies)…
We could someday have a world where PC hardware is technically less modular than it is today but consumers have more choices in the marketplace than they do today.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 194d
Kinda hard to do when so many GPU vendors slap their memory and power circuits all over the place. Even if the die is in the same place cooler manufacturers would need to test fit a bajillion models, and on top of that they'd need insane R&D budgets to keep up with new additions, sometimes coming years after the original gpu comes out
autriyo@feddit.org · 2 pts · 194d
My concerns were more about the airflow path and less about actually interchangeable coolers, although those are a thing.
Like it just feels wrong to blast the air into a solid PCB... That's kind of solved with flow through designs, but a tower style cooler would probably be less noisy.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
I've been expecting socketed GPUs ever since the AMD/ATI merger.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 195d
There were many a meme of gas powered GPU's back in the day. We knew.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 194d
I was joking about it being 2.5 slots, tbf most modern cards should be triple slots. Mine is 300W and it's pretty chunky to stay below 60C, best option for big cards is a horizontal mobo imo
edit: unpopular opinion but I'd rather have a chunky card that stays cool as fuck than a slim one, that's why I picked up the Nitro when I had a 6650XT
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 195d
You see, the big mistake in 2029 was the person installing Windows. Now they can see the horrible data center right outside of their house. As they say, out of sight, out of mind.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 19 pts · 194d
What an interesting domain the image is hosted on.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 194d
:3
Unlix86@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 193d
Woof c:
deadymouse@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 195d
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 195d
I guess we won't do something about that, especially when we have the power in our hands.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 195d
Most people do nothing.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 195d
then, we accept what is not right, and people should stop complain.
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 4 pts · 194d
Supply will catch up with demand. High PC component prices are a temporary thing.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 194d
we said that about housing since 2008.
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 194d
oh wow that domain----- sharkey, hm? ~
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 1 pts · 193d
More like AI Dating Center AMIRIGHT
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -11 pts · 195d
something something ai bad -
::: spoiler eh whatever i might have to make a controversial post again- :::
BlahajByte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 194d
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 192d
i thought about how to reply to this a bunch... because like - ur totally right-- but also i felt somewhat unnecessarily attacked >~<
the controversial post i would have made would have been with the following content
::: spoiler content of post i would have drawn an angry man hitting a computer, with the text of my comment:
somethingsomethingAI BAD!in a round kind of way ~
with bottom text
(now go and like my post)the goal would be to make it look as if it were generated using openais image gen 1 model, so i would have
similar like how another post tried to, this one would essentially bait for being flagged as ai... dunno why, but i thought that was funny. it also would have made fun of people actually posting their low quality slop made using the most lazy prompting.
it also would have played on the "hate-post" thing, which tends to amount looooots of likes and stuff ~
(see all the "the bubble is bursting" and "ai makes u dumb" videos)
:::
::: spoiler sketch of post a sketch i made just for this comment <3
:::
You are absolutely right ✅—the stuff isnt a fun novelty anymore and its primarily being used by bad people for bad things and now even in war apparently.
so like..... its not like im pro-ai, see this post- im very much aware of the evil and the bad happening, more so than most anti-ai peeps i believe.
ive been around the bubble because i find the topic intellectually stimulating. the idea of curating some data to let a prediction mechanism grab onto those patterns to predict following sequences-- just seems like an interesting engineering process, especially when it comes to behavioural analysis.
but over time ive been disappointed, as the majority of that bubble is made of disgusting people, business people and spammers with only a few people interested in doing fun research.
over the last year or so, ive been moving away from the ai bubble. removing discords, bookmarks, yt channels and even local language models from my devices (besides my phones keyboard auto-correct... i wont let u peeps take that away from me!)
i did post plenty stuff on lemmy concerning the topic--- but like - all of em were either jokes, technical stuff or ideas (correct me if im wrong, may have forgotten something)
i do have a character flaw, but not the one you portrayed:
::: spoiler the character flaw i believe i have
this is where imma leave it i think... might still make that post tho--- for the funzies-
(yes, the comment was generated entirely by a human brain connected to a human body)
EDIT: for anyone whos not aware: i dont dabble with image, video and audio generation stuff... not my thing.
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 184d
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 184d
aaaa @BlahajByte@lemmy.blahaj.zone u cant just ghost me on a comment like thisssss >o< i... i put a but if effort in it, u know?...
BlahajByte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 183d
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 183d
oh! ohgosh..... oki, its fine, take ur time sweetie, okay?