Is there more context on the piefed.ca thing?

Try making the volume really loud, had some devices not working until sound was above a threshold, like an offset, for no apparent reason

I feel you, but most of us don't work for silicon valley, in most countries the salaries are average to slightly above average, and being fired or forced to work with tools you don't want sucks, which is also a workers issue

Conversely, there are people whose accounts have been frozen either by the US or the EU for political motivations

They can vary wildly and it's very useful to keep a track on it

Did you scroll sideways in that table?

Considering the MIC is in bed with AI corporations I worry they will get bailed out to some extent, and that the gains will remain completely private, with taxpayers being expected to foot the bill (or alternatively, dealing with the inflation while their wages remain stagnant). I hope you're right though, I really want there to be a positive in the end, I'm just skeptical on this front.

The silver lining to me is that there's encouraging developments in FOSS AI, developed mainly in China. Maybe after the crash we can get somewhat cheaper GPUs to run them locally.

That makes the metaphor imperfect, but the data centers are being paid with circular money that isn't there, based on the assumption that AI will make obscene amounts of money to actually pay their bills when currently they're losing lots of investor money to subsidize the price, and they're already talking about transitioning to a usage based system, which might push some enterprises to use a FOSS alternative from China.

We're in a bubble, when it pops it's likely many data center projects will be abandoned before they're done.

We'll get a literal crusade against AI before GTA 6

Thank you for your sharing all of this! Have a nice week!

Thank you for sharing this table, since you mention drivers, do you remember if Intel's GPU was also this bad at launch before improvements to the drivers or is this even worse?

Right?