It’s a factual statement regardless of what you think of AI. People won’t pay for something if the free option that can’t be taken away from them is just as good.

Maybe that will at some point kill off the big overvalued companies

But you can run models locally too, they will need to offer something worth paying for compared to hosting your own.

Palestine action? Never heard of them. We support Action for Palestinian.

Energy to produce should already be represented in the price. Though pollution probably won’t be.

If you know you only have a few months to live could you just max out credit card debt on digital goods to fuck over the credit card companies? There will be no value to recover.

Or drugs, if you can convert it into cash.

Subscription based buy now pay later microtransactions. You won’t see the price of the specific item but instead it just raises your monthly fee from £13.43 to £13.87 which seems pretty reasonable to give your character a pink dildo helmet.

Caught a few but my partner is disgusted at the idea of eating them. Shame as it was really easy.

They cost quite a lot, they seem designed around sharing, got an oral b one currently and the heads have little coloured rings you can put on them.

I don’t know about DVDs, nearly 2 decades ago I thought optical media was dead and yet somehow it’s still here.

My grub boot loader is pretty hacked together at this point. Really should probably do a fresh install at some point. Want to get a 4TB SSD at some point though.

Well when you have endless gambling adverts now that might do it. If dealers could advertise meth on TV I expect you would get more addicts too.

I think most of us are based on different instances too, the main UK community is showing more than double that per day.

Also British, trying (somewhat failing) to avoid more of the political stuff and that seems to be most of the national specific stuff that gets posted.

Generally agree but also consider power usage. Of course it also depends how often its powered on or not. If its used a lot then buying newer hardware may well be cheaper just in the energy saved, though if its off most of the time then its less of a concern.

It should be able to run a pretty good sized factory in Factorio. Easily fast enough to compile CDDA.

Oh no, can’t play what ever some AAA studio shat out last week, how ever will I cope…

I thought all Lemmy users were running Linux?

If the majority of people did, it actually would make a massive difference. This whole “but billionaires” and “but corporations” is just being used as an excuse to do absolutely nothing by far too many people.

All of those people doing nothing are why we are in this mess.

A lot of people in western countries are living unsustainable lifestyles. Yes we need to target the billionaires too, but that alone won’t solve it. Also stop buying their shit. Actually, just stop buying shit in the first place as that is a large part of the problem.

If I had mansion money I would buy land to live in a self built mud hut.

We have started to reduce how much worse we make it, and a fair bit of progress has been made there in some countries, UK carbon emissions are less than half what they were per capita several decades ago.

When I was young we had a fireplace and would often burn coal in winter. Now I have a heat pump to warm my entire house by extracting thermal energy from the atmosphere.