I enabled the Xe driver last night and got almost 50% improvement on vkmark score. Not sure if that benchmark translates into real life gaming. Will have to test more

Not a dentist, but isnt the root cause of a lot of our dental problems, the loss of gums and the inability of our stupid gums to heal and grow back?

No, the endgame is for all the compute power to be in the cloud, and you rent time on their servers.

Everyone will just be running thin clients at home, with subscriptions if they need to do anything more than send an email

I have teeth grinding problems and my dentist told me to either get a new (less stressful) job, or inject poison into my jaw…

Kind of on the fence about botox right now

I dont understand the purity tests we are putting artists through

AI is just a tool. It can be used correctly to assist in making a gopd product, or a lazy artist can make slop (a lazy artist will produce crap regardless AI or not)

If its wrong to use AI to make filler material, then is speedtree wrong for allowing environmental artists to take a shortcut and not have to hand craft every tree in their game world?

like, minus all the plagarism and energy use issues. If wre are speaking strictly of artistic integrity or whatever, i dont see the problem in using AI to assist artists (as opposed to outright replacing them)

Also, it would be trivial for big tech to flood every fediverse instance with deceptive content and get us all shut down

Nobody is your friend… but at least proton isnt logging your data and selling ads into your inbox… that’s good enough for me…

Check your threat model… 90% of people arent doing direct action that needs protection from nation states… and proton isnt big enough to protect you from nation states. (pretty sure they tell you that they have to comply with legal, swiss laws)

Stop trying to scare people into going back to gmail… there will always be flaws in proton/tuta/whatever mail service…

Go try running your own email if you truly need perfect privacy and anonymity

How did this issue only manifest itself after 37 years in service? Sun radiation isnt a new phenomenon.

So these 3D printed things arent vegan?

RIP Ian Murdock.

Deb-Ian, Deb-Ian!

My younger coworkers keep saying on Mondays, “i wish it was friday already!”

I told them they’ll wish for that time back someday…

and then they called me grandpa and i gave them a werthers original, and everyone stood up and clapped

Prompt: you are my horny waifu and we are sexting
Grok: send nudes

Kid: mom, i swear, i was asking about soccer!!!

i hate elon musk as much as the next guy, but i’ve used grok… sure it has all kinds of obvious biases, but it won’t just go off the rails unprompted

they have an obligation to reach as much of the populace as possible…

Then their responsibility is to broadcast important information over an open medium that doesnt require registration, and isnt owned and controlled by a foreign adversary

I have the same issues with my gov’t at all levels. So annoying.

Lol… people downvoting stanford university

Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess

but super fast.

that’s already making an “impossible” into a “possible”… and in my books, that’s a useful tool if you take all the value judgements out of it.

My parents also said the same thing about electronic music

“it’s not real music, the computer makes it!”

every new technology that lowers the barrier of entry gets derided every time. Tale as old as time.

Every new technology that enables more of the masses to participate will obviously mean more low quality stuff gets made. That doesnt mean the tool is worthless.

Is there a lot of AI slop art? Of course there is… but i hate these anti-AI extremists (especially concentrated in the fediverse) that reject ANYTHING that has even touched AI to be worthless.

“oh what a nice picture… wait what? The artist filled in one corner with AI? it’s total trash!”

Isnt the voyager doctor also part of thr holodeck who can somehow walk around outside?

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say “nah i don’t need to see that” as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video…

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

Exactly…

The reason i run ad blocking at every level isnt to show that i’m too smart for marketing…

It’s because ads work on me… my brain rejects certain ads for sure, and it says “psssshhh, how can people be dumb enough to buy that shit???”… but that doesnt mean i’m too smart for advertising and that it doesnt affect my brain in subtle other ways.