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DeepSeek never said it was permanent in their pricing materials, the article writer did. They are just taking the current expiration date off an existing discount. It’s absolutely a shot across the bow at Claude, OpenAI, et al., but the author was click-baiting, as is tradition.

Yep, HomePod has a 'babbling brook" loop. I used to use “rain on a tin roof”, but Apple is a jerk and doesn’t make bringing your own sleep sounds easy.

Eh, the US gov’t has a pretty solid track record of “bailing out” with “loans” and then “forgiving” them, aka free money for the C-suite.

I’m sure at least some are operating under the assumption that government bailouts will be on offer (too big to fail). The industries that have received bailouts in the past are also on the AI bandwagon.

Wave power is transmitted back to land, usually, it won’t be a floating data center. At least I doubt it would be, but who knows, they are pretty awful people.

caffeinate -d

closes laptop lid

The word you’re looking for is sociapth. You need to be a sociopath to become a billionaire

They inject those directly. It’ll block all of Google’s other ads though.

How many is that, in bananas? Or school buses?

I mean, it’s shady for headlines, but it’s not false. The board are residents, and the did vote it down. Then they “settled” and I’m betting it was a pittance compared to the data center value. In reality, it was probably a situation where whomever was backing the data center said to throw lawyers and/or money at the problem until it went away.

It can block ads on your whole home network and your mobile devices when not at home. I pay like $20/year and I never see ads. I still run block on my Mac.

NextDNS makes all of the browser stuff you’re talking about moot, other than ads served by the app/site itself. Also blocks ads in apps, games, etc. I can’t even remember what it was like to play a mobile game that has video ads jammed in your face.

Wow, is his name Claude? FFS

It’s roughly twice the size of the base app, if it’s the same as Edge, which on my machine is 1.82GB. It’s shady as hell, but “massive” is doing a lot of lifting in this headline.

I built my original Windows 10 gaming PC in 2015, with 16GB RAM. I recently re-rolled it as a CachyOS gaming PC, and had the same RAM. All was fine. VRAM on the other hand, yeah, go big or don’t bother. I thought I was getting a great deal on a RTX 5050 with 8GB VRAM. It is woefully inadequate for modern AAA games, for sure. Thank goodness for protondb.com though.

RTX 5090 is only $4000 right now… /s

YMMV depending on the types of games you play. GPU-bound ones (most, these days) will suffer without a good GPU. CPU-bound games (Civilization series comes to mind) are easier to build for.

I was hoping the RAM shortage and resulting VRAM price hikes would force the game development industry to renew a focus on performance and efficiency in resource utilization, but I think they are just trying to ride out this likely multi-year RAM price gouging we’re currently in.

I think they were viewing it from a risk justification perspective. Giving anything kernel level access is high risk, and game publishers have not even remotely earned that level of trust.

This is why I went with Unraid. Being able to slap whatever drives in that I have on hand was the primary driver for getting away from btrfs (Synology). And that build was about 3 months before RAM prices started to explode last year, which I read as “all parts gonna skyrocket”, which they have.

They must not know about how terrible DX12 games perform with Nvidia cards…