Just like my entire system. Smooth.

Yeah but this is like when Disney makes star wars tv shows. Ignore what the current audience likes and use the show as a vehicle to try and tell them what they should like.

I didnt think they could do worse than Discovery but the Academy is incredibly bad. On the plus side, Im rewatching Deep Space Nine again.

No.

But mainly because content creators are on YouTube to get audience and a small profit. The technology is fine otherwise.

Of course, buy monitors that use a bit less energy. That will give you probably 1 dollar per year in savings, and you can spend that on something nicer. A cup of coffee maybe.

Are you aware that reducing the energy consumption on monitors is competely irrelevant compared to the giant data centers coming up now, taking as much as power as a full city?

One typical AI data center ≈ 1 TWh/year ≈ the electricity used by 100 000 average homes annually.

A very large AI data center under construction ≈ 20 TWh/year ≈ electricity for ~2 million homes annually.

Fun times isnt it.

Totally agree. Huge difference when moving windows or gaming on a 120 Hz or higher monitor. So smooth.

You may be interested in why Google became so popular compared to alta vista, the dominant search engine for a while.

No ads and just a clean fast loading search page. So of course, ironic that its now a billion dollar company based on ads.

Im also 50 and working out, definently worth it. It not even difficult to lift some weights 3 times per week.

Ive been doing it for a year and im happy with the dumbbell chest press. Got up to 32 kilo per hand and will try to get that higher this year.

I like reading those actually. Its always interesting to see people leave and why they do it. And many of the reasons can be summed up with how its not worth it anymore.

Since i left tech myself after 25 years also. :)

Techno fascism is a thing. But thats not why I left. I just didnt like AI being forced into the culture. Changed the entire profession from creating solutions to asking for solutions.

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah it is but I guess there is nothing anyone can do about it now. People wont admit it but they know thats how most or all programmers will work in the future.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai… Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup… I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that… I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

Its called the matrix, and people will work super hard if you give them a nice title for that external validation that is so juicy. One day they wake up 60 years old, with a house full of old stuff they rarely used, since they were so busy all the time with working.

Probably missed seeing their kids grow up, and maybe also grew disconnected with the partner they liked as a young person.

So yeah. Gather money and get the hell out of that.

I stopped enjoying writing code completely, but its been interesting to watch everyone else who started to enjoy it MORE with Ai.

It seems to be a certain group of programmers who always were more motivated by getting the result out the door than the experience of putting code together in a certain way.

I suspect the era of high salaries as a programmer is over, since companies now feel they can replace people even easier.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

Just be careful to not drive all traffic to only large instances, because then people who run smaller ones may not get enough users to keep doing it. How healthy will Lemmy be if everyone uses the same five instances?

Its already a bit of a problem with the large instances being so dominating.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

This seems like a battle he cant win.

None of us can win it. I already see tons of Ai channels on YouTube where machines are taking on the voices of celebrities and saying things from a script… And those channels actually get followers and make money.

So my conclusion is, these services will become more and more filled with ai bullshit and most users wont even care.

I predict, due to market forces, more than half of YouTube videos will be Ai generated in 2030. And most users will not mind it.