Ok so, you don’t live here.

Heres the current situation:

There are significantly more privately owned firearms in the US… then there are people.

You… would need an actual plan, to make that not be the case.

If your plan is ‘tell the government to go get all the guns’… that, that is the thing that all the stereotypical 2A people will literally start a widespread civil war or terrorism campaign or whatever you wanna call it, to resist giving up their guns.

That’s the doomsday scenario they’ve built their culture around, for… at least 40 years.

Wishful thinking will not accomplish anything.

You are acting as if the guns can just be ctrl-z’d out of existence, as if somebody could just tick a box somewhere, and suddenly hundreds of millions if firearms just… stop existing.

Thats not how this works.

The country is already well on its way to increased factionalism and violence.

The Black Panther still exist by the way. And they do armed marches, stand guard around places.

They don’t use the guns to shoot people, its force projection, it sends a message.

Like all the LGBTQ places that have had armed guards show up, to protect them, after Nazis/Proud Boys/Oath Keepers with guns threaten the club or cafe or whatever.

This kind of thing has been escalating since the George Floyd protests.

We’re beyond the point of ‘now everyone kiss and make up’.

American history is actually full of shit like this, even pretty modern American history.

You’re not gonna make that all go away by simply being exasperated by it.

Are you aware of the concept that a non Nazi can possess a firearm, in the US?

I agree that its very hypocritical of the bulk of 2A people to shirk the duty that they’ve been loudly proclaiming they need their guns to execute.

But guns do exactly what I think they do.

You’re worried about societal issues and tribalism?

Those are already here.

You do not live in a functioning democracy, if you live in the US.

The only way you could think that you live in a functioning democracy is if you uh, haven’t read the news in at least a year and a half, if you live in a magical dream world where reality is less important than your fanciful idealism.

There’s a reason all the academic experts in … you know, democracies, in decline, … there’s a reason they all left the country, months ago now.

Who is going to go around and enact your preferred policy?

A … theoretical future administration?

How are we gonna get one of those, that you like, after Trump and ICE disrupt and rig the midterms?

You’re aware that they literally declared anyone who is ‘radically pro-transgender’ to be ‘a type of major terrorist group’ right?

These are the same people that got a fuckton of people fired because they reposted clips of Charlie Kirk sayings Charlie Kirk said, after he died.

You are literally dangerously naive.

Most of the software industry uses contractors for most things, just, in general.

Here’s an example of that not working so well: Halo Infinite.

They hired a bunch of contractors to build the engine.

Contractors contracts are up, they do… something else now, somewhere else, who knows.

Now that the engine’s done, give it over to the artists and gameplay developers and… oh. Whats that?

Its confusing? Has bugs?

Uh well uh… the code is ‘self documenting’, right?

Hire some other contractors to fix the engine!

… etc.

And that’s basically how Halo Infinite happened.

Remember when somebody figured out that like, the loading screen, was re-downloading the same image, like, 400,000 times?

Remember how like local split screen co-op does exist in the game engine… but… you can’t have it… for some reason?

Good times, good times.

You basically could not come up with a stupider way to try a design a complex piece of software if you tried.

But, retaining actually knowledgeable employees and their knowledge that their managers didn’t realize was important, well, that’d mean they get full benefits, and fuck that, so instead, lets double or triple development time (and cost) and release a half baked product.

Genius.

… So the people should be disarmed and dispossesed so that capital can direct their fates?

They should be disarmed… by the predator in chief?

Are you thinking this through very hard?

ICE is actively shooting innocent civillians, en masse, we’ve got people starving and dying of malnutrition in concentration camps…

And now, now is the time for everyone to give up their guns?

Are you ok, did you hit your head recently?

Your strategy is ‘give up the guns because the Nazis won the government?’

I’m just using modular to describe like… a series of connected independent things that is not inside of one box.

I don’t know that there’s an actual term for this, and I get that yes standard PCs have modular component sets and configurations, but I mean more like a motorcycle and a side car, than … a car model with different trim levels.

Uh anyway, how far away are we from CPU integrated gfx being equivalent to modern GPUs?

Probably infinity amount of time.

Because CPUs and GPUs are basically defined by the different kinds of math they are optimized to do.

When you shove both of those things into one chip, that’s an APU, like what the Steam Deck or some consoles have.

When you jam CPU and basically LLM optimized chiplets together, thats apparently called an NPU.

All those AI Max’s and what not.

They can do GPU type things, but not as well as a similar caliber of APU… LLM math is similar to but not quite the same as GPU math… GPUs need a whole bunch of shit to handle unpredictable/rapidly changing ‘problems’ they are solving, whereas LLM get gigantic problems and then chew through them one at a time.

Or maybe the infrastructure in your building in or fairly near a city just sucks, and you use a 5G base station for internet.

This kind of thing is… extremely common in areas that broadly have unsubstantial net infrastructure, or just poorer areas of developed cities.

I… I know the technical difference.

Apologies for using shorthand that you immediately interpreted correctly.

Shorthand that… you know, was used in the article.

Paraphrasing Sam Altman.

Because most readers of tech news can contextually figure out what is meant by that.

I’m convinced that modular PCs are … at least a flavor of the future.

MiniPC with higher spec laptop or mobile cpu, soldered on to a mobo that has sodimm slots.

Oculink port, external gpu dock with psu.

CPU gets too old? Keep your ssd and sys ram, get a new mini pc, put the ssd and ram into it.

GPU gets too old? Get a new one, new PSU if you need it.

Yeah, you get a slight ding to extreme performance scenarios, but at least at the moment, this seems to be the more cost effective route to get something like a ‘ultra graphics at 1440p’ capable system.

Also, once you get the GPU dock, you probably don’t really need to get a new one… unless like an entirely new PCIe standard comes out, or something like that.

But, you can currently get a bare bones one thats around the cost of all the fans and cpu heatsinks and what not that you’d need for a traditional ‘battlestation’.

Also also, when not gaming or doing something graphically or LLM or whatever kind of demanding, you can just boot up the MiniPC alone and have a lower power bill.

If you want more long term storage, set up a NAS, or maybe just some usb external spinny spinny HDDs.

This kind of thing is already a fairly rapidly growing niche in China, if you hop on AliExpress and just look at how many different kinds of things are offered and roughly fit into this kind of setup scenario.

AOOSTAR, Minisforum, others, etc.

Oh its a utility?

… so it should be publically owned and operated?

He didn’t even say ‘like’ or ‘akin to’ a utility.

He said ‘is a utility’.

… So then democracratize it.

And yeah, if WiFi is like that too, then yeah, lets have the public manage that as well.

… I wonder if ChatGPT can draw Altman looking at a broken clock being right twice a day.

Control, control! You must learn control!

Do. Or do not.

There is no ‘try’.

They already admitted they’re a corpo yuppie. I just pointed out their misplaced guilt complex.

I’m being an asshat performatively to serve a purpose: bullshit detector.

Yeah I jump straight to being a dick when I get a strong whiff of out of touch privileged bullshit.

You’re still responding to me because you were lying earlier when you acted like I wasn’t worth responding to… thus I hit a nerve somewhere, you can’t handle someone being rude to you.

‘Blah blah blah’, anyone bringing up points you don’t like being brought up is dismissible… because they were rude to you.

See how your ability to evaluate situations just… you know, hinges on how polite someone is to you?

You said I was contributing nothing.

No.

I contributed something, you just… couldn’t comprehend it.

But I do respond to insults in kind, old man.

Anyway yeah, thanks for your boomer advice, I’ll be sure to tell every single left wing or consumer advocate, you know, every actually anti corporate streamer or creator on youtube to just, you know, stop doing the youtubes, because they can just get their information from…

… uh … the … public… broadcasting service?

Oh wait that basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Does Democracy Now cover tech news very in depth?

NPR?

Whatever, the kids are wrong, somehow.

(ps you can use youtube without giving them any data or money or ad views or anything if you understand a bit about web browsers)

Ok, you have a parasocial problem, good for you.

You’re the one that started with the insults.

You’re not gonna gaslight anybody into forgetting that.

I just parodied your level of critique, and hypercharged it.

You went for the bait.

It’s called trolling for a reason.

Anyway yeah, your age isn’t that hard to approximate, you’re an older Gen Xer or younger Boomer, you know, a yuppie.

I’m so glad that you getting rid of cable TV and Nestle signifies that your’re not a corpo, after a career in logistics.

It ain’t left your bones or your brain yet, you’re just overcompensating for your guilt.

… and I’ve already got what I wanted from you.

If people like me make you even consider cheering the corpos on, then you don’t actually care about anything other than outward appearance, and your allegiance and opinions mean nothing, because you just like whoever has the best PR.

What, should Steve just also start his own video streaming or distribution service?

You’re gonna say that using a corporate tech platform to expose corporate tech bullshit… well in this case, that’s bad, because, capitalism is still happening?

Would you prefer a much tinier number of people be able to see this content?

Do you value ideological purity over broad dissemination of information?

Lemme know when your LORA meshnet video streaming network is up and running, you know, nationwide, globally.

It means you’re very superficial, and attacking credibility by means of criticizing image and style, a misdirect.

What, do you want an E3 booth babe from 2004 giving you a 30 minute version?

Its original reporting.

They did interviews.

With tons of people… in the industry.

Its a double feature length documentary expose.

There are no alternative sources in this case, because him and his team do original work that no one else does.

If you think Steve is … being needlessly mean, to other dipshits in the space, whom he meticulously documents his well reasoned grievances with…

If you finding him generally ‘cringe’ inducing… inspires you, out of the goodness of your heart, to… consider that all people deserve some grace, even this strangely purist… ambulance chaser…

You have some kind of a parasocial problem, or, you’re just actually one of the people he’s criticized, or you’re in their friend group.

Frame setting? High School level insults used to present yourself as a reasonable truth seeker? Wildly out of touch taste compared to most people actually in the space?

Yep, common tactics and traits of corpos and parasocial obsessive fans alike.

You’re trying to degrade investigative journalism by way of Mean Girls tactics.

You’re using too many buzzwords to not come across as either an insider or one who seeks their validation via emulation.

Well, if I do it, I’m now a Professor of Applied Moral Philosophy…

I’m sorry your coworkers have terminal NPC-itis.

I will make sure to press X to pay respect.

… Who… where did the crayon jar go?

Goddamnit!

Private Schmidt!

How did you even-

I’m not breaking that thing untill you either pass out or say ‘Sir the crayon jar is not a helmet liner, sir!’

Things cannot move through space at a speed faster than lightspeed.

This rule does not apply to space itself.

Also, interestingly, shadow boundaries can ‘move’ faster than the speed of light.

https://www.iflscience.com/shadows-can-move-across-a-surface-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-75112

Because a shadow isn’t truly a ‘thing’.

Its just an area where light bouncing off of something is not happening (as much).

omg corpo simp harder daddy!