Local llms would be big boot to your privacy if nothing else. You dont know what cloud llm providers do with your info, how long they store your data, or who they sell it to. The only HIPPA compliant model I know of is Claude series through api key access specifically. With local llms you dont have to worry about those things.

Also consider they changing and tweaking models all the time behind the scenes what works great for you now may change next update. Once you download a local llm its yours no chance of changes happening to important therapy not.

Chain of thought models are really good for use cases where you want quality answers over speedy ones.

Call Of Duty Black Ops 7, however im hearing Battlefield 6 is also in the same boat.

A lot of gamers tend to also be teenagers/young adults who just want to play a game with their friends in their social group. I was a kid once too after all so its understandable. However its the "just want to play with my friends" crowd that enables the industries worst practices by being consumers who think of yearly video game release hype cycles as vehicles of social interaction instead of caring about games as an art form thats being slowly degraded by corporate cuckery over time.

And thats the big divider. A fundamental schism between people who use video games as a vehicle for socializing with friends vs people who play videogames for the love of the art form and enjoyment of the genre.

The "want to play with my friends" types follow the hype train. They consume games as a social product. They go from one AAA multiplayer to the next as their social groups collective interest waxes and wanes. They buy game consoles based purely off what their other friends have. They aren't that deeply invested in the 50 years of history, industry practices, or current culture trends of games. They dont care about nerd shit like privacy and dont care about always online requirements or optimization. AAA shooters, mobas, and sports games appeal to these types.

The "art form enjoyer" types are the people who grew up with this stuff and have an intrinsic interest in game industry practices. People who played hundreds of single player games to experience a story or beat a challenge. The people who care enough to notice the constant corporate commodification ofthe art into slop and the never ending plays for control over the game you paid to own or shoving microtransactions everywhere. Its the people who will put their foot down and vote with their wallet just because of shit anticheat or always online or being unoptimized UE5 garbage. Also the type of people who will give indie games made by small developers who treat the community well while providing the opportunity to run community servers.

Theres overlap but to me it seems lot of the industries anti-consumer practices are born and bread in the triple AAA " want to play with my friends" honeytraps. Those kinds of players are the most apathetic, most willing to chase hype trains, buy the newest consoles, consume the same reheated product, willing to put aside personal philosophy and bend over backwards to take the corporate cock to play a game with friends.

But like I was a teenager once during the 360/ps3 games so I have empathy. The socialite tribal monkey instincts for connection and communication are a big driver very hard to resist. Theres nothing wrong with playing games with friends but I wish it would stop being used as an put for enabling shitty products and practices. "Sorry nerds I'm a real person who wants to play with my friends normal people ain't got time to care about voting with their wallet or having an invested interest in making sure I can play the product I paid for 10 years from now with hardware I already own" is such a common undertone justifying the apathy.

Solaires great helm of course! Praise the fahckin sun brah

Black Ops 7. Its got plenty of shaming going on for other reasons already but this is the first time ive seen this message.

Also the Phone must be at or under 200$ no matter the build quality. I get it, linux users are likely to be cushy financially well off opsec nerds will pay out the wazoo for hardkill switches which I guess is your bread and butter whales to target in this market. Please release something economical for us plebs it can be like a walmart tracphone for all I care.

The lesson is that humans should always be held responsible for important decision making and to not rely on solely ML models as primary sources. Eating potentially dangerous mushrooms is a decision that you should only make if you're absolutely sure it wont hurt you. So for research If you choose upload a picture to chatgpt and ask if its edible instead of taking the time to learn mycology, attend mushroom foraging group events, and read identification books, well thats on you.

I believe that Valve can afford to sell hardware at cost or even a little in the red. Getting people in the steam store ecosystem makes it back and then some in the long term.

The GabeCube looks awesome! The GabeGoggles probably aren't riddled with spyware. The controller fucks so hard it could be an aphrodisiac. Massive win for valve today.

Honestly, my favorite people are the ones who love to talk and are horribly desperate to babble to potential listeners. I'm not much of a talker but I absolutely dont mind looking you in the eyes and nodding my head as you talk about your hobby or current going ons.

In bigger social groups I noticed this weird thing fellow humans tend to do where they all want a slice of being the talker/ center of attention and constantly cut off eachother or tune out current speaker waiting for them to shut up so they can start their monkey babble turn.

This behavior absolutely infuriates me and I refuse to take part in it. I would rather just be silent and let you say your piece than interrupt the flow.

As a knock on effect people subconsciously notice I'm not competing with them for talk time and am sending them constant listening signals like looking in the eye nodding head "mhm got you" stuff. This seems to really go a long way with making friendly with talkative types with minimal effort.

Absolutely cannabis.