Other people have already explained the topic in sufficient detail, so I'll just leave a quote from a former NASA engineer and a link to their article.
Taking the NVIDIA H200 as a reference, the per-GPU-device power requirements are on the order of 0.7kW per chip. These won't work on their own, and power conversion isn't 100% efficient, so in practice 1kW per GPU might be a better baseline. A huge, ISS-sized, array could therefore power roughly 200 GPUs. This sounds like a lot, but lets keep some perspective: OpenAI's upcoming Norway datacenter is intending to house 100,000 GPUs, probably each more power hungry than the H200. To equal this capacity, you'd need to launch 500 ISS-sized satellites. In contrast, a single server rack (as sold by NVIDIA preconfigured) will house 72 GPUs, so each monster satellite is only equivalent to roughly three racks.
Yes. He unironically promised to build data centers in space. So basically, his company's stock went up, because he falsely advertised something that is practically impossible to achieve at this time.
Pretty sure it'll make no difference. The agreements were already constantly being broken, and the EU only occassionally bothered doing anything about it. With the current European Comission being made up entirely of American assets, I suspect we'll see no action on this whatsoever.
Grok, how can my buddies and I inflate the prices of our companies' products to get free money? We need it badly to purchase more kidnapped Asian children. Also, ensure we don't get caught. Make no mistakes.
Our generation will die remembering his crimes, and the next generations will be fed propaganda about him in schools. As soon as in 50 years he'll start being remembered positively. Unless serious changes happen to all sections of society.
This is nothing new. The entire recorded history, everything we learn in schools, went through this exact scheme.
This, and the EU Comission's response to SKG, are clear examples of the European Union's incoming, but hopefully not unstoppable, collapse.
Practically all of the EU's executive bodies are very evidently run by foreign powers. A proposal doesn't align with American interests? Denied. A new law can't get through voting 15 times in a row? Passed behind closed doors. The Comission's president is suspected of fraud? Oops, all communication accidentally deleted.
By the way, I'd identify myself as extremely pro-EU. But Von der Leyen has to go. The Comission has to either go or go through extensive reforms. The Parliament too, but less so than the Comission. Both European Council and Council of the European Union should be held more accountable as well.
Needless to say, none of these will happen. European democracy and human rights will likely keep being eroded. Until anti-EU sentiment grows beyond any chances of discussions. Then the Union collapses, and members states are left isolated, at the mercy of big players.
This is classic American Imperialism playbook. The empire has run this exact scheme countless times. Now the EU is in its sights. Russia is most likely involved too. Why wouldn't it be? As for China - I'm not sure. It's the only one of the three that actually has civilized talks with the EU, so I'd like to think it's not a part of this. Wishful thinking? Yeah, probably.
For some time I worked for Microsoft on their Copilot AI (outsource, I did not know I was signing up to work for Microsoft).
I cannot tell you how many good translators Microsoft hires just to rate Copilot's responses in various languages. They often had interesting insights to share, but whenever I asked my managers where to put it, they said we don't care. It's just rated 1 to 5, and that's it. Nobody even cares about language-specific nuances.
Technically none of the translators are ever 'hired', let alone 'employed'. All the work is based on shit contracts through several proxies. Some people weren't even sure that they were doing work for Microsoft. Hell, as a junior manager even I never had contact with anybody from Microsoft. Only our seniors.
It's an overall incredibly depressing environment. Very knowledgeable and passionate people still try to do their jobs as well as possible and provide insightful feedback, despite the fact it's supposed to completely replace them. Only to be ignored and ghosted when a given language is deemed not worth the cost by microslop.
I was literally the only person who ever responded to translators labeled as no longer useful. Even though they still had their contracts active. And I know that, because several of them told me that. Nobody else bothered to even respond as people asked for any available jobs when struggling to make a living.
One guy doesn't understand how video-sharing platforms work at all. The other is perfectly happy being a good little consumer for youtube, and doing nothing about it.
Yes, everything you do on youtube is beneficial for... youtube. Including watching with ad blocking and sponsor blocking. But it's also beneficial for the creators, who may be very nice people, and who may deserve something for their work.
How about throwing your favourite creators an email with short instructions on how to mirror their content to an alternative platform, as well as reasons why you'd greatly appreciate it? Takes maybe 15 minutes the first time, and may actually lead to lasting change. Instead of pretending you're acting on values and not convenience, while comfortably sitting on your lazy ass, watching everything burn or turn to garbage.
If either of you actually dislikes youtube and/or wants change to happen or alternatives to grow - move your butts and something about it. Based on the comments here, you're both just contributing to the perpetuation of youtube's enshitification, and google's control over the internet in general. While arguing which side is worse. Dumb infighting, and even dumber reasons for it.
Aside from complaining, make sure to do something about it. Otherwise there's no point.
Absolutely use uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock on all devices you watch youtube on.
There's a Return Youtube Dislike extension you can use. Bonus: you can use data from it to shame various' companies videos, which is what youtube primarily wanted to avoid by removing dislikes.
For creators mostly - there are other video-sharing websites you can post your content on (or even easily mirror your youtube uploads). Make sure to upload somewhere else too, so that more people can leave youtube forever.
Do whatever you can to harm youtube (or Google more broadly), as well as support alternatives. Memes and complaining by themselves are pointless, and solve zero issues.
That's great to hear. I wish I had that kind freedom when it comes to work devices.
However, you're talking about 'companies' and 'employees'. Not 'people'. As I mentioned, not a single thing about any of my comments in this thread was directed at anyone using Windows for work. It's entirely out of scope.
Everything I wrote here is meant towards people using their personal devices for their personal lives. Anything else wouldn't make sense.
For me personally, it has always been crystal clear that any 'switch to linux' discussions exclude employees and their work devices by default. Perhaps I should be underscoring that to avoid misunderstandings.
Workplaces already usually run Windows Enterprise. And IT departments are practically guaranteed not to let you debloat the OS.
Also, I'm not shaming anyone for using Windows at work. It's not the employees' call. I use Windows for work too, because that's what the company installs on all PCs.
Most orgs will no doubt continue running Windows for a long time to come, due to Active Directory, Intune, and other services. A lot of smaller ones could more or less easily switch to Linux, but I can't see that happening with medium+ sized ones.
Absolutely. That's what I meant by the music software. From what I've seen it's the most common to have older versions that a lot of people use, that don't work on newer OSes.
Still, a basic DE with multimedia apps, a web browser, an office suite, an IDE, and games cover something like 99.3% of users (arbitrary number).
Why SteamOS specifically? It's not a particularly good Linux distro, unless you're using a Steam Deck or a Steam Machine.
And even then, better options exist if you feel like switching the device's OS. Personally I keep SteamOS on my Deck, because I don't want to reinstall all the games. Otherwise I'd move to Bazzite.
There are plenty of Linux distros with either Nvidia drivers pre-installed or with toddler level installation of them. If your only issue is nvidia drivers, then it makes no sense to wait for SteamOS. Try Pop!_OS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora. Any of these will do a better job than SteamOS (ok, maybe not ubuntu), and they're available right now.
Some people really do say that Linux is too much hassle, but then go through a 30 step process just to have a slightly less bloated piece of spyware.
I mean, it's good that this option exists. I'm sure it'll be helpful for people who need Windows 10 for some obscure music software, that doesn't work well or at all in a virtual machine or through wine. That might really be Windows 10's singular last use case.
Other people have already explained the topic in sufficient detail, so I'll just leave a quote from a former NASA engineer and a link to their article.
Source: Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.