I’m in this boat. I didn’t hate BL3. The story was meh, the antagonists were unlikeable, but they were supposed to be, so good job there. Overall, I enjoyed my time with it.

I tried to go back to BL1/2 and was hit in the face by all the usability issues, since it seems like they added mouse and keyboard support as an afterthought. BL3 is one of few borderlands games I can stand the UI enough to actually play.

My expectations from BL4 were/are small. Better mouse/kB support (or at least on par with BL3), and more story. I could give a fuck about the graphics, and most of the “loot” is randomly generated vendor trash. Unless it has a name and a gold title, most people couldn’t give any fewer shits about it. So all they literally had to do was mix up the gold tier weapons, and work on the plot line.

I see they fucked with the engine, otherwise it wouldn’t be so bloody unstable.

Oh well. I’ll wait for the goty/master collection/turbo Max ultra digital edition or whatever, that has the game and includes all the nickel and dime bullshit they’re going to try to get people to buy… Then wait for it to go on sale.

They’re not special. They’re going to end up enshittifying the game. It’s happening. I’m just going to stand on the side lines and watch.

I mean. Even putting all the borderlands expectations aside, it was a pretty low quality movie.

Like, a lot of films that are adapted from games or other media, if you set aside expectations from the original media, you at least end up with a halfway decent movie.

This one was just a train wreck all the way through.

The fact that they’re not mentioned, does not constitute proof that they were not included in the statistics.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they are included in the list. I dunno, I’m not the statistician who crunched the numbers here. I didn’t collect the data, and that source material is not available for me to examine.

What I can say is that the article defines “discrete” GPUs instead of just “GPUs” to eliminate all the iGPUs. Because Intel dominates that space with AMD, but it’s hard to make an iGPU when you don’t make CPUs, and the two largest CPU manufacturers make their own iGPUs.

The overall landscape of the GPU market is very different than what this data implies.

The original post is about Nvidia’s domination of discrete GPUs, not consumer GPUs.

So I’m not limiting myself to people running an LLM on their personal desktop.

That’s what I was trying to get across.

And it’s right on point for the original material.

… Yeah, for yourself.

I’m referring to anyone running an LLM for commercial purposes.

Y’know, 80% of Nvidia’s business?

Who the fuck buys a consumer GPU for AI?

If you’re not doing it in a home lab, you’ll need more juice than anything a RTX 3000/4000/5000/whatever000 series could have.

Microsoft.

Microsoft is buying them for AI.

From what I understand, chatGPT is running on azure servers.

I understand what you’re saying here. I would reiterate “fair use”.

I know, DMCA take downs can happen for a lot less than what’s covered under fair use, especially with YouTube/Google’s system of handling take down requests. Err on the side of the copyright holder, until proven otherwise.

I still have a lot to look into on this so I can’t say how relevant your point or mine is in the context of GN. But you certainly do make good points.

I don’t usually watch gamers Nexus stuff, I find it to be a bit dense for casual watching. It’s accurate as all hell, as far as I’m concerned… They know their shit and they research the crap out of whatever they’re covering; this both makes them awesome, but adds to the density of their content.

I also have immense respect for them because they’ll call shit out like this, and just give the finger to any possible repercussions. They’re legally in the clear as far as I’m concerned, they’re hyper careful about that kind of thing. But that doesn’t mean that Google is willing to host them while they do shit that makes Google’s advertising partners grumpy; and I assume Bloomberg, or a company affiliated with Bloomberg runs ads on YouTube/Google/whatever.

They’re in a position where they have significant risk, and instead of tucking tail and doing what they’re told, they’re fighting, and pointing out the problem. They’re putting a spotlight on the fact that we all know, but nobody really mentions, that “good business” in the ad space, is to appease your advertisers as much as possible. Like it or not, Google is still, very much, an ad company. That’s how they started, that’s still a big part of the business. It’s why Google search is free. It’s why Gmail is free, and it’s why YouTube is free (almost all of these have paid options, but that’s not the focus right now).

So like it or not, Google’s in a pretty tough spot. I’m sure the views from GN drive some significant ad revenue, at the same time, in certain that the contracts for ads from Bloomberg and affiliates, are worth quite a bit as well. If they kick GN, then they lose ad revenue from any ads that would run on their videos in there future. If they don’t, they risk losing a potentially very valuable advertiser.

They’re stuck in the middle. I have no idea what they’re going to decide here.

I won’t blame Google either way. I’d like to see them standing up for GN, but I can see why they wouldn’t. They’ll have a stronger arm against GN than they would against Bloomberg, because, let’s face it, Bloomberg has more money to throw at lawyers and making legal issues for Google, than GN does.

I do, however, entirely blame Bloomberg in all of this. I’m certain that GN is using any footage insert fair use laws with proper attribution to the original source (though, I haven’t seen this video yet, nor the one in question. I just know GN well enough to know that the likelihood that they didn’t, is basically zero).

GN already has my trust for their integrity. I can’t say the same for Google, YouTube, and certainly not Bloomberg… Ha.

I will, of course, be looking more deeply into this later, and I will amend my viewpoint as information is uncovered. Until then, good luck GN. You guys are heros and legends. Never stop being exactly who you are.

Cell phones? Or like… Land lines?

I’m just curious. If you don’t want to talk about it, I understand. Dreams are pretty personal.

Someone swapped your phone with an Android.

I haven’t tried to fight any of my dreams yet. So this is an interesting revelation.

Do you?

Well, would you look at that…

All we can do is guide them. Personally, I guide them to treasure I cannot have, since I’m damn near obligated to run and deeply understand Microsoft Windows because I work for IT support.

All of my work tools are Windows centric.

The thing that confuses me is that Microsoft is no stranger to Linux. They use it in their data centers. It’s plainly obvious if you know what other offerings are doing.

Their entire front end stack for azure virtual machines is OpenStack. Some years back they integrated with OpenStack to allow it to manage hyper-v, but OpenStack can also natively manage KVM hypervisors, as it was originally designed to do, and also VMware.

Hell, I’d be surprised if there isn’t a Microsoft distro of Linux floating around (not available to the public… Not yet at least).

The people who seem to be pushing Microsoft, more than anyone, are game studios. Their garbage Anti cheat rootkits work best on Windows. So use Windows so they can low jack your PC.

Idk why, but this reminds me of the following joke:

QA walks into a bar, orders 1 beer, orders 999999 beers, orders -1 beer, orders dywbakdi beers. A customer walks in, asks where the bathroom is and the building bursts into flames.

I was gifted a 2080Ti about a year or so ago and I have no intention on upgrading anytime soon. The former owner of my card is a friend who had it in their primary gaming rig, back when SLI wasn’t dead, he had two.

So when he built a new main rig with a single 4090 a few years back he gifted me one and the other one he left in his old system and started using that as a spare/guest computer for having impromptu LANs. It’s still a decent system, so I don’t blame him.

In any case, that upgraded my primary computer from a 1060 3G… So it was a welcome change to have sufficient video memory again.

The cards keep getting more and more power hungry and I don’t see any benefit in upgrading… Not that I can afford it… I haven’t been in school for a long time, and lately, I barely have time to enjoy YouTube videos, nevermind a full assed game. I literally have to walk away from a game for so long between sessions that I forget the controls. So either I can beat the game in one sitting, or the controls are similar enough to the defaults I’m used to (left click to fire, right click to ADS, WASD for movement, ctrl or C for crouch, space to jump, E to interact, F for flashlight, etc etc…); that way I don’t really need to relearn anything.

This is a big reason why I haven’t finished some titles that I really wanted to, like TLoU, or Doom Eternal… Too many buttons to remember. It’s especially bad with doom, since if you don’t remember how, and when to use your specials, you’ll run out of life, armor, ammo, etc pretty fast. Remembering which special gives what and how to trigger it… Uhhh … Is it this button? Gets slaughtered by an imp … Okay, not that button. Reload let’s try this… Killed by the same imp not that either… Hmmm. Goes and looks at the key mapping ohhhhhh. Okay. Reload I got it this time… Dies anyways due to other reasons

Whelp. Quit maybe later.

You wasted a lot of words here.

You acknowledge that at the beginning of COVID, contact tracing and sterilization of contact surfaces was paramount before we knew better, going to the length of generating, or otherwise obtaining “tubs” of cleaning products for the purpose.

My entire point is that “contact tracing” is not just who you make contact with but what you make contact with. My point is not and was never that it was relevant for protection against COVID. My point was that it was a part of contact tracing. I only mention COVID at all because that is what was taught in the early days of the lockdown. A point to which you have all but plainly said, that you have also been educated on.

The miscommunication here is that you are only looking at contact tracing as person to person contact because it was relevant during the pandemic, while I’m focused on the umbrella concept of contact tracing not just for COVID specifically and that as a medical term, which it is and always has been, “contact tracing” is not just person to person contact, but also contact with surfaces. The context of the word contact, is the difference. In your view, you are seeing contact as in someone on your contact list, a person you connect with, or communicate with. In my context, contact is the act of touching or making physical contact with peoples and things, including nonphysical contact, like what happens when you share a small space with someone, you are in contact with all of the surfaces they are, inhaling the air they’re exhaling.

For COVID, contact tracing and education thereof started with the full medical definition of contact tracing, including, but not limited to, physical contact to both people and objects, and sharing a space with others. Later the former part of that was dropped for COVID specifically as it was established that it did not yield any significant prevention from infection.

None of the above paragraph is in question.

My friend who sanitized their groceries on the advice of medical professionals during the early days of the pandemic did, indeed, as you say, waste cleaning products with no real gain to show for it. In their defense, at the time nobody knew that.

My point is. Contact tracing is more than who you make contact with. That was it. You’re arguing something totally off topic about COVID that doesn’t refute anything I’m trying to prove.

In the context of COVID, again, no it does not prevent the spread in any meaningful way, as medical science has since proven. You were, like everyone else, taught the full meaning of contact tracing during the early days of the pandemic, yet here we are. You’re up on a soap box, shouting from the rooftops that it doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID. A point that was never in contention. Good job. You played yourself.