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  • The rest of the games eventually started to run but some of them were hit by performance degradation severe enough to not be playable.

    This makes me think that something is wrong with your GPU and the system falls back to “default” graphics. If it’s nvidia, did you accidentally install the nouveau driver? While I appreciate the work that is done there, it’s really bad in comparison to the blob drivers.

    Try this command lspci -nnk | grep -E -i 'vga|3d|2d' -A3 | grep 'in use' and check the output. If it says something along the lines of “Kernel driver in use: nouveau”, you got your problem right there. Install the proprietary driver and you should be good.



  • Jup. Ollama and OpenWebUI is a great stack to tinker with some LLM models. They’re kinda useful for aggregating large datasets, translations, frontend development and gathering relevant sources for me to read into. Also, Qwen has been amazing in understanding frameworks without documentation and writing one for me. I had to use some self-developed PHP framework for a task once and without qwen, I would’ve taken probably two more weeks to get the task done.

    MiniCPM has also been REALLY good at image detection, describing it as accurately as possible, feeding it into qwen who then searches what the object could be and returning the result. I always liked google lense and that stack gave me a TEMU-Version of google lense that isn’t quite as reliable, but definitely very useful.


  • Effective monopolies on required goods, small businesses going down because a Walmart opened up then jacked up prices, cable companies agreeing to not compete in geographical areas, regulatory capture in various industries

    These are things that are mostly a non-issue in europe, so idk. Food and water are regulated, so is internet access to even mobile network access, and I heard about the walmart story, that was something that walmart even tried in germany like 20 years ago to force other discounters to fold, but got slapped by the “kartellamt” (basically a government antitrust body) so bad it had to stop.

    So yes, I agree that on important goods, especially the goods that people have no real choice in buying because they need them, like food, water, medicine, housing etc, you need regulation. But many problems in our modern world aren’t because of these sectors. They happen because people keep using big tech companies instead of thinking about alternatives that might make your life a bit less comfortable in the short term, but will profit you long term.


  • I really don’t like the idea that consumers can be as retarded as they want, at the end of the day, someone else is responsible. I’m a big fan of also hold consumers accountable.

    Many consumers are irresponsible with their purchases. The best example in this regard is apple. They kept pulling anti-consumer moves, removable batteries - gone, headphone jack - gone, etc. People just kept buying it like mindless drones. That is not a “big business decision” - it’s a “many consumers will eat any slop that is served to them”.

    If consumers were more responsible with their purchase decisions, companies would have no choice but to change course. And that even worked for a fairly long time. But the broad population has become complacent and straightup stupid as it seems, which in turn requires regulation. But if the population wasn’t this dumb, we wouldn’t even need regulation. The market would - and this is not a meme - literally regulate itself because consumers would STOP giving you money, and that’s the ONE thing that will change a companies course.

    To be fair tho - in this situation it wouldn’t do anything. The AI-Bubble is a self-sustaining structure that will deflate over time, with or without consumer usage/input. But in general, I think moist consumers are lazy and complacent, which lets many companies run rampant.