SabinStargem
@SabinStargem@lemmy.today
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
Never tried that. I worry about the damage and lifespan reduction that could cause to my SSD drives. If we go vanilla, I get the following performance on my PC:
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Generating (2562 / 8192 tokens) (EOS token triggered! ID:248046) [11:17:40] CtxLimit:2656/32768, Init:0.10s, Processed:94 in 0.83s (113.12T/s), Generated:2562/8192 in 47.51s (53.92T/s), Total:48.44s
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This is via the KoboldCPP backend. Things are much faster than they used to be, a year ago this would have taken at least 10 minutes. This is a 35b MOE model.
Specs-wise, my machine is…
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7965WX - STR5 workstation CPU
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32gb of RDIMM DDR5 5600
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RTX 4090
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Within a few weeks, I will have the machine worked on to fix a teething issue and to add at least a second GPU. My machine has device enumeration issues, which I believe to be caused by the PCIe SATA card. I am figuring that eliminating all non-motherboard SATA devices from the build will end the issue that I am having.
In this case, the computer can have 20+ minute boots, with bootloops or getting stuck. This only happens with booting, Windows is just fine. I consulted with my local AI about the patterns and error messages I was seeing, we eventually homed in on likely points of contention for the system.
This also lines up a prior experience with a SATA card some 15ish years ago. Silly me for expecting a modern SATA card to not suck.
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- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
Even if that was the case, so fucking what? Why is it your business how people find happiness in life?
Considering how you treat strangers, it is better to spend time with AI, than the likes of you.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
Dunno, as of yet. I am very picky, and my roleplaying sessions with AI hasn’t gone on long enough.
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It requires significant hardware to use local AI, and Qwen 3.6 at 35b isn’t quite good enough to understand the lore and characters. Odds are that once I have added VRAM & RAM to my PC, I can run a big enough model to have enough quality to feel good for me.
Unfortunately, I will likely have to wait for America’s AI bubble to have popped, before I can afford enough RDIMM RAM to run Kimi and other large Euro-Chinese open models. I probably won’t ever use American anymore, as their closed models have too many guardrails and likely would align with the Trump Regime in the coming years.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
That sucks. Everybody should be able to find happiness. Not everyone has the looks, wealth, opportunity, or charisma to find a lover.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
A brief personal report about fried chicken prices in America…
2025: $24-$26 dollars for 24 pieces. 2026: $26, $28, and now $31 dollars.
Also, I am seeing many items suffering from shrinkflation. Terrific. 😒
- Comment on Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared 2 weeks ago:
I am figuring on playing Palworld again about a month after launch. Modders will have some work to do to bring their stuff up to date, dealing with the influx of players, week 1 super-patching, and so forth. Gotta let such teething issues of a launch to be ironed out.
In particular, I want to have gliding pals and pokeball throwing back again.
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 2 weeks ago:
Ublock user: “What are these…ads, that you speak of? They sound intriguing.”
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
The most hated, and probably the last of this United States. Odds are that we would have a new nation or many that would replace this abominable thing.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
They can do this for the upcoming Thief remaster…
- Comment on It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like an origin story.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 5 weeks ago:
Linux can access NTFS-based drives. I say that you should just move everything onto drives that aren’t hosting the OS, then format the OS drive with a fresh Linux.
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Greece
- Comment on 📡📡📡 5 weeks ago:
For me, I would prefer to combine both. A good panty shot is one of my jams.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 1 month ago:
The last week or thereabouts, I have been trying my 2nd migration to Linux. Went with ZorinOS, but ultimately the project failed. This is because there is a lot that isn’t hand-holdy enough, or AppImages just not working consistency. If nothing else, I at least a get a fresh start: Windows Enterprise 25h2 GAC via RUFUS + Massgrave, with Shutup10 Premium to set and forget my privacy. Good enough for now.
It isn’t ideal, as I suspect an 2nd American Civil War down the line - and MS is likely to side with Dogey America. Hopefully Linux would be more friendly and refined by the time things kick off.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month ago:
Because those nursing aids aren’t working on wealthy people. The circumstances of a worker is proportional to the level of threat and inconvenience it presents to the elite if they aren’t in good shape.
We need more friction against the corporations, be it the implication of force, strikes, or quiet quitting.
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Should America’s economic system be replaced in the future, a key thing to do is to eliminate most of the difference between the poorest and wealthiest. That would require standardizing incomes, capping wealth accumulation, workers voting for leadership, and using universal benefits such as free shelter and food to prevent coercive workplaces.
Our current economy is an creature that inherited the properties of feudalism, and wasn’t explicitly designed to be good for civilization. Creating a whole new system with deliberate intent & mechanisms is the best path forward.
- Comment on Anon is judging you 1 month ago:
Yes.
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- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
I think that a completely reworked economy, can make it much easier to tax the wealthy. Specifically, by using fixed incomes according to job rank, and having leadership roles change pay grade according to what workers vote for. Each worker can vote for who holds a leadership position, alongside their job ranking.
As to the fixed incomes, by having all job types assigned a rank with a fixed income throughout the entire nation, that prevents leadership from coercing changes in worker pay. They can’t underpay, nor overpay the workers, which makes it easier to assess and collect taxes. If everyone falls into very specific tax obligations, it is harder to game the system.
Alongside UBI, universal benefits such as guaranteed shelter, food, transport, utilities, and healthcare, money becomes optional. This allows workers to not be blackmailed into working for bad employers, which also puts a stick in the wheels of the wealthy. Coercion is the great power the elite uses to abuse ordinary people, so we need to eliminate that.
Also, absolute caps on wealth and assets, both for individuals and corporations. No one should be able to hoard resources that would allow any single entity to manipulate society. Sure, it would suck if someone can’t have dozens of vacation homes and yachts, but realistically, most folks won’t need more than one vacation spot with a nice boat.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Call people in the neighborhood, ask if anything is off? Send in a single car to scope out the scene, while keeping reinforcements in the wings? Ask 911 where the call originated, and adjust expectations based on that?
At least two of these things can be done while the police begins to move towards the destination, as intel gathering doesn’t require policeman to be making the inquiries, just support staff.
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Fact of the matter, is that American police are the same breed of ‘warrior’ that Pete Hegseth is: Bloodthirsty, undisciplined, incompetent, and in service to powers of capital and hate, not the citizens they are supposed to serve.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
I still believe that “defund the police”, is the correct choice. The whole damn thing has to go.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
I try to make it a habit to build a whole new machine when a new AMD socket to accommodate a major memory standard comes out. Way I figure, many people will dump their older hardware, so I can get a bargain on top-shelf stuff of the older standard. So when DDR6 is out, I pick up a 1024gb of DDR5 and a Threadripper of the generation.
While I don’t like the FOMO from not adopting the latest platform, my wallet much appreciates the mercy.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
If there are economic bubbles, I am figuring on picking up some gear on the cheap after the big companies start falling apart. For now, I am just buying stuff that aren’t fairly generic and not prone to aging. In this case, a THOR NAS desktop tower. My older THOR V2 chassis isn’t quite right for modern GPU lengths, so hopefully the THOR NAS would be able to accommodate my older hardware while permitting the new stuff.
I got about 20tb of SATA SSD and a optical drive, so I needed a tower with front bays to accommodate those. Plus, I will be trying out this newfangled “M.2” stuff with my next build for the OS & Gaming drives, which takes up further case space.
- Comment on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California 2 months ago:
I hope that we get a Star Trek Offline from this. I want to play the game, without FOMO and humanity making me feel miserable.
- Comment on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California 2 months ago:
“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”
- Comment on Boop Snoots 2 months ago:
A total conversion for the FreeSpace Open engine. Freespace is an excellent series of flight games for PC, similar to TIE Fighter - but the source code has been released to the public, resulting on many massive overhauls. Someone decided to make a Starfox game in it, and apparently it is shaping up nicely. You can use the Knossos mod manager to download the mod, and buy FreeSpace 2 from Steam or GOG.
- Comment on Boop Snoots 2 months ago:
- Comment on Charlie Kirk commemorative PEZ dispenser 2 months ago:
That Pez cartridge should be bullet shaped.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 2 months ago:
If I had the money, I would fund an EVE Online spinoff that existed to compare different socio-economic models against each other. Year 1 would have the shards separate, so that each community would develop in isolation and master their respective styles. Year 2, the shards are linked together to that each ‘galaxy’ can visit each other for trade and conquest.
The way I figure, our world is so used to feudalism and capitalism, that things like genuine socialism or communism would be ‘noobs’ when their governments spawn, and thus be killed or corrupted not long after appearing. Giving time to become equals with infrastructure and experience would be useful for evening the playing field of the experiment. Plus, we can look at each society at isolation before mixing in the complications of competing with other models.
To me, it would be preferable to study these models in a virtual environment, before trying them in the real world. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that we will have to fly by the seat of our pants and hope for the best.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 2 months ago:
I think the Universal Ranked Income concept that I put together can address at least some of the issue. The basic idea is that everyone receive basic UBI and benefits, such as free healthcare, food, fuel, and so forth. A job is for earning money, which in turn is used for luxuries and upgrades. In effect, money is a non-essential currency.
Aside from that, each type of job falls into a category of rankings. This rank gives a fixed amount of money. Assuming a full year of work after mandated vacations and whatnot, that would be $40k for a basic job like waiter. An astronaut gets the highest ranked job, which brings in $100k. Mix this with an absolute cap on wealth and assets ($100k for each category), and that will limit the power of a person over society, while allowing for a reasonable level of liberty and prosperity for a person. Plus, companies can’t commit wage theft or use bad terms.
However, this doesn’t entirely address companies by themselves. Each worker should have the ability to vote for the leadership within their own establishment, and also be able to cast votes for leaders that are above the establishment. Say, WalMart managers - you can vote for your store’s manager, the city’s manger, the state’s manager, and the nation’s manager, ect.
Still not enough. Companies also should have restrictions on how much total wealth and assets they can hold. What I propose: the cap is 50% of the staff payroll, based on each employee. An waiter adds $20k to the company’s capacity, while an astro is 50k. If a company needs capacity without increasing headcount, they can instead participate in a government lotto program. The lotto gives an annual income to a winner, and each winner only can have one income at a time, which can replace basic UBI. To qualify, they have to be without a job and not have any benefits to draw upon. (Each day worked, gives 1 day of income as retirement benefits.) This allows companies using AI or not needing people, to still contribute to society while improving their fiscal potential.
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I know, a long list of stuff. Unfortunately, economics are wooly and there are many, many issues to sort out, if we go down the route of an egalitarian society.
- Comment on Really incredible. I want a set. 3 months ago:
