BassTurd

There will be a new generation that learns about VPNs and torrents. Life is cyclical.

Damn hydration. Always growing too many heads.

Maybe, but CPUs are coming out with LLM tuned chips, and I can run a basic model on an i5, 8gb ram, and no dedicated card. It's not super powerful, but for most users, it's more than enough for what they use the big models for. Also, if it does take a discrete card to get that needed boost in performance, then at least consumers would be able to get GPUs again.

I think as hardware improve and is further designed around LLM efficiency, and local models are tuned for specific uses and being able to run on lesser hardware, it will make Nvidia obsolete for large swaths of the population. A good GPU will still be necessary for high performance, graphic/physics intense gaming, but that's a really small subset of all users.

Hopefully Nvidia just shits and has to grovel back to the consumer to get there marketshare back when all of the DCs go tits up.

It feels like one of those technologies that can't truly be contained. It's like how the government keeps trying to end piracy. It's like a ~~hydration~~ hydra. Cut off one head and two more show up. Local models will be the dagger to premiere models.

Sounds like there's a market for a hugging face comeptitor.

Nvidia is seeing the writing on the wall that local models are the only viable future for AI. They have to try and squash that now before it's too late. I mean, it is already is too late, as they've hooked there wagons to these AI companies, and that shit's going to end and nividia is going to be a bag holder. I can't wait.

Mostly inherited wealth, but also those things.

For sure. I've already contemplated switching to a different streaming service for music, but while I have YT premium I'll keep using YT music, although they keep making that interface worse and worse. My YT consumption will just plummet to only a couple of channels, and I'll just work through my backlog of the terabytes of media I have on my Plex server. Hell, might even go outside and see what that's all about, but I don't want to rush into anything.

I have my sub shared across a couple different families in 4 different houses, in 2 different states. If they crack down, I'm dropping my subscription.

While true, I don't have to do any work at all right now to listen to as much music as I want and new music is available immediately. I also don't have to setup something to be able to stream music remotely so that I don't have to store all of it on my space limited device.

This is my setup, and we are spread across 4 houses in 2 states. Never been an issue.

Fair enough. I strictly use it for comms in games I play with friends. I'm not active in any other communities and I'm certainly not paying for nitro. I'd like to migrate but getting everyone to do so probably won't happen. I could maybe convince my closest game friends, but I have a clan in a game with people I don't know that we use discord to chat. Definitely not getting all 40+ to move.

What solution did you end up on post Discord? If you had a group of people you communicated on Discord with, did you have luck migrating them out? I'd like to move, but my use is already really minimal and I feel like getting my friend group out is going to be difficult to non-existent in some cases.