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Oh, no I get it. I went to Chile a few years ago and it made me realize how truly big the WhatsApp community was in South America. It was on billboards, buildings; it’s become a necessity.

I recently bought 2 of these for my partner and I. Worth every penny if you’re going to lay in bed or sit somewhere with it.

I should check this out. I think it’s great as a companion tool to coding, but Copilot has been so hit or miss for me.

And this one was unfortunately digital only 😞

Oh wow, these are a throwback. I loved 1943 but I was so bad at it lmao.

The good ol’ days!

Funny enough, here’s a description of AI I wrote yesterday that I think you’ll relate to:

AI is the lazy colleague that will never get fired because their dad is the CTO. You’re forced to pair with them on a daily basis. You try to hand them menial tasks that they still manage to get completely wrong, while dear ol’ dad is gassing them up in every all-hands meeting.

AI as a concept is amazing, and some applications it’s being used for are equally amazing. It’s the mainstream AI drivel that I fucking hate.

But there’s also these things that put me off:

• the glaring lack of ethics behind the companies pushing it (Meta and Open AI for example) which is more a capitalism problem than anything
• the fact that it was built on plagiarism without consulting with artists and authors (who probably would’ve been open to the idea if it was presented with a level playing field)
• the fact that it always hallucinates (I can’t get it to stop making up arbitrary bullshit no matter what I do)
• the resources required and the stress it places on power grids and the environment (puts it out of reach for most end users since it requires a killer rig)
• the massive shortage of GPUs and the huge price hike (which we can also thank crypto for)

The idea of being able to run smaller models locally is amazing and everyone should play around with them. I find it to be fun for toy apps and experimenting, but I’ve yet to see a single good use case from the multitude of companies using it (with the exception of cases like you mentioned).

Yeah, this was part of that. Companies should open source their server software for these games when they hit EOL, but they rarely do.

Oh damn, I’ve never played 2142. At first I thought this was a typo of “2042” 😂

Mechs?! I’m sold… and sad I missed this one.