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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)

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[+] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -10 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

We must kill the environmental disaster that is Steam.

Youtube is history's greatest monster.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 6 months ago* (9 children)

Installing a game you want is different than hundreds of millions of people having something they didn't ask for getting pushed on them.

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[+] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -7 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Not in terms of power use.

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[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Power use is not always bad. Power waste is. 4GB I'm not going to use is much worse than 6GB I will use.

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[+] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -7 points 6 months ago

The atmosphere doesn't care whether you found joy in how you've impacted it. Either downloading files is bad, actually, or it's not a big deal.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago* (5 children)

What happened to separating personal use from condemning data centers for expending unnecessary and unwanted energy?

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Does consent change how much power a server uses?

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Here, yes. Two exabytes of data transfer could have been one or zero.

I don't get the point you're trying to make here.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The point is that servers don't belch black smoke when they send you one file. This model is the size of a four-hour Youtube video. How many people watch how many hours of video, every single day? We only see this hand-wringing minutia over internet use when talking about neural networks, and it's getting weird.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Much weirder when people try to shift blame off corporations pushing stuff on people without their consent, and on people minding their own business.

Weren't you just telling me that data centers would use energy regardless anyway? I can't keep track of these talking points, except it seems like they're all pro AI.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago

The root comment opens with 'don't use Chrome.' This tangent is about specific overblown fixation on power use... for downloads.

I am telling you to apply your own criticism of bandwidth to anything else Google does. Four gigs to every desktop Chrome user is still a drop in the bucket compared to a streaming service. If the average Chrome user has watched two movies online, they've done just as much environmental damage. Which is to say: not much.

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