What do you mean by ‘local AI suffering’?

Did you mean to say ‘surviving’?

As in small, less capable, but still potentially useful when used in sane ways… people doing more of that?

Like, the fundamental problem with the idea of local AI dying out as a thing… is that most of the Chinese developed models are developed under a much more open souce type of paradigm.

Its not 100% open source, but its way more open source than than US corpo models.

So… anybody can still download an run one of those.

I’ve had Qwen3-8B working on my Steam Deck for around a year now. Not super fast, but it does work, and… a Steam Deck is not exactly a juggernaut of GPU compute power.

Anybody with a modern laptop could figure it out.

… Did he confer with the coterie of imaginary median voters in his head before making this extremely important announcement (that means almost absolutely nothing)?

Another day, another hitherto unimaginable cyber security crisis, brought to you by ‘AI’.

… maybe one day they’ll find the seahorse emoji.

So basically, its enshittification.

… but with a multi role stealth aircraft.

Its very funny to me that all the people who make all the decisions and rules around how software should work… are finding out that when everything hss software in it, well, everything has software in it.

Personally I’m waiting for more custom ROMs or whatever for cars.

Oh yeah this car is unlocked, you just actually get all the features, no need to pay Ford or GM or BMW on an perpetual basis for your heated seats.

See I just grew up as poor white trash in the US.

I guess just more technically inclined than much of my fellow white trash?

But yeah, exactly… why pay for something you can get for free, safely, if you know what you are doing?

You do it because you either really, really want to support a particular game or developer, or, as Steam/Valve has been saying for like 20 years now… because the version that you are paying for is actually substantially better, is substantially easier to access.

Basically, if official market prices are so high that the risk and hassle of using a gray or black market is less than the differential between gray/black market price snd official price… you use the gray/black market.

This is a pretty well understood concept in actual, academic economics, but in the US we have an insanely corpo/finance slanted public representstion of what ‘economics’ even is.

If the fundamental framework of IP laws and market practices is inherently biased against the consumer… obviously, people are going to broadly not like that, and other people are going to just skirt around them…

The main difference between the US and Russia in say, the 90s, is that everyone in the US knew they were destined to become a millionaire (economy doing quite well) where in Russia, things were just generally being gutted and sold for scrap, under the table (economy doing quite bad).

Its the Always Sunny in Philly scene, oh you’re new poor, its easy to tell… see, we’re old poor, we know how to do this.

I’d say there is a reasonable likelihood that the broad, ongoing economic collapse of living standards for 90% of Americans will lead to a cultural tone shift.

What is the Russian term, schmekalka, something like that?

Basically: Coming up with an improvised solution based on what you already have, as opposed to figuring out how to buy some new thing for the task?

A lot of the US is going to have to think a lot more like that, otherwise they’ll just become literal debt slaves.

Like, shit, I still refuse to pay for any fixed location internet plan that charges for datacap, data limits. This is now common and widespread in the US, but is completely bullshit and unjustifiable from an actual ‘what does this cost the ISP’ perspective.

We largely lost that fight over a decade ago, but I’m still pissed about it.

Alternative outcomes:

Gaming bifurcates.

Indies and certain AAs aim for the ‘good ending’, realize fancy graphics are not only harder to produce, but you’re actually just shooting yourself in the foot in terms of potential customers.

AAA on the other hand continues to double down and enshittify, figure out new ways to turn gaming into leasing and renting.

… but, as always, mostly marketing, ad campaigns, paying off “journalists” and “influencers”.

3rd potential outcome:

Something akin to lan parties/netcafes/arcades recurs.

Rent out a space, run a local to global network solution and also a miniature rendering farm.

All the actual PCs (or maybe VR headsets) are connected to cheap, thin client local machines that are then networked to the mini rendering farm.

4th potential outcome:

… nobody can actually stop people from emulating or running old, good games. ‘Piracy’ becomes as normalized in many other parts of the world as it is in Russia currently.

Huh!

Well TIL, thank you!

Oh you’re right!

I thought it might have been the main connection between the guitar and the amp… that would have a lot more current in it, potentially, right?

I keep forgetting that I actually need to use the glasses that I now have, lol.

Because Microsoft owns github.

Even without them plugging LLMs into it, using it all as training data, sharing everything connected to it directly with the NSA, they could easily do a more standard enshittification of it.

Oh you have a free github account, you can do X amount of pulls and commits per month, otherwise, subscribe to GitHubPro for $5 a month.

Oh you host some software that’s used to antagonize our corporate partners?

Even though its not actually illegal?

Poof, gone, just like when the credit card companies decided nsfw games are verbotten.

… Wouldn’t there be enough electrical power in this that you might wanna cover that in electrical tape?

I’ve not jerry rigged an amp before, but I did once build a ramshackle ‘home media pc’ for some roommates once, out of old spare pc parts i had lying around, using the box their xbox360 came in as a ‘case’.

Got a paperclip with some rubberized covering, snipped a bit off the two ends, and then you had to short the right two pins on the … whatever the socket is that would normally go to the front io panel is, you had to do that to turn it on lol.