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“Fertility rate drops” suggests that people are becoming less fertile.

The article itself says that people. are taking measures to have fewer children due to cost, the economy, the political landscape, etc.

Infertility is not the same as choosing not to have children.

“Polling in recent years has indicated that the number of adults who never want to have children has grown, and that men and women plan to have fewer children than previous generations.”

Trying to find the one who’s heart he’s going to steal for a transplant?

I think the key here is that this market hasn’t been affected yet but it will be more than likely. Also just because you can get the card doesn’t mean you can get all the rest of the components to build a PC. I definitely don’t have the newest latest or greatest. No DDR 5 RAM, no fancy current gen or even previous gen video card. I own a PS5 and a gaming handheld with Linux on it. And those two pieces of hardware have gone up in price instead of down in price and will more than likely continue to rise.

Last gen hardware will see a price increase it it hasn’t already the longer the AI bubble BS goes on. Because you’re right. people will opt for that if they can’t afford the latest and greatest. Are they going to pay $650 for that same 3080? Harddrives are twice as expensive and not something that last forever. Mobos can die and the fabs that make them may in fact be switching to making other components to fuel production of AI chips. RAM isn’t a magical component that never goes bad and it’s going to dwindle in availability for DDR4 and possibly DDR3 when businesses realize they can’t get the new stuff for their business suite computers. They’re already salvaging RAM and in some cases Harddrives from their used computers before they sell them off.

AI is a symptom but it is making things worse and has the trajectory to continue that trend until it crashes and dies.

The people who program, run and upkeep the LLM have intentions. The LLM is not a sapient or sentient entity.

It matters because every time we anthropomorphize Generative AI LLM’S we re-enforce peoples belief in their ability to tell lies or truths.

People’s believe is what leads to trust in them and things like AI psychosis.

An interesting way to look at it is AI also can’t tell the truth.

What it does is generate the next likely word or words based on its most significant statistical positive in its database. So it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t tell truth. It doesn’t tell lies. It isn’t an entity. The people behind it are allowing it to present information as factual and we have no reason to trust them.

I’d be fine with 4-5 posts a day but I’ll bow to the will of the community.

Yeah. I don’t upvote or interact unless I already know the song or am interested because I know the artist. Very very occasionally I’ll get curious about something I’ve never heard of but it’s rare.

I understand what you’re both trying to say and I think you’re talking past each other.

A new person entering the market doesn’t have the option to rely on a backlog of games and if a component in your rig failed tomorrow it would be exhorbitantly expensive to replace it even if it were a budget rig.

The more budget you go, the harder it is to replace existing components because lots of things are incorporated and solder together as a cost cutting measure.

So say you’re a new gamer hoping to buy a rig. New or used you’re screwed right now even if all you want to play are AA or indie games and you never touch a AAA game. Buying used is going to be expensive because theres now a high demand for used hardware because new hardware is exhorbitantly expensive.

So even if what you say is true and we can all just get by with budget hardware, that hardware is still going to be prohibitively expensive and the reason is Generative AI and capitalism.

You trying to get us taken out by gammer? No thanks. I will not be touching that sewing basket.

Construct Additional Pylons?

Why not both? Por que no los dos?

Snap-on sells a premium version. But you can get them from a local fabric store or online for much cheaper.

I feel like you have a reading comprehension problem and I’m over it. If you don’t think there’s a limit to the number of used (affordable) home PC’s in this economy with literally everything that’s going on with new computer prices, component prices etc then you are not paying attention.

I don’t know if you chose to single me about specifically because you didn’t like that me and Op agree about some of the things they said or what, but I’m not here for it.

You flashed right past the meat of what I was saying to quibble about this “being linux’s” fault when that literally wasn’t the point. Op isn’t blaming Linux and neither am I. Don’t bother to reply if you’re not going to read to understand. I don’t care what you have to say if you’re just here to be combative.

What’s especially crazy is he does this to artists who make web comics, but when he posts news articles he posts a link to the article and sometimes an excerpt, and some of those include the names of the authors. So the only “ads” that count are the signatures/watermarks/socials on web comics.

The average person. I’m going to repeat that because apparently you missed it. The average person isn’t buying used computers from enterprise resellers.

A new entry level Thinkpad from Lenovo is $935.10 on Lenovo’s website right now and it comes with copilot. Buying used is a crapshoot because lots of those surplus or used business ones are being resold without RAM or in some cases Harddrives, which will obvious drive up the cost and that supply will be finite going forward as the RAM and components shortages continue. You don’t even have to take my word for it.

Here is a guy who was salvaging business class laptops, refurbishing them and installing Linux to sell them to people who can’t afford the new tech price increases and even he has been forced to give up doing that.

It’s not about Linux not being supported. It’s about barrier to entry.

My mother is not buying and installing RAM. My mother would not know what to do if she had driver issues on Linux.

And where with windows there’s an assumption that you don’t know anything about anything so guides with step by step instructions exist, with Linux, a lot of the time you’ll get some lackluster instructions that assume you have a set amount of knowledge already.

So either you didn’t read everything I said, and you’re just responding to what you think I meant, or alternatively you wrong about what can be fixed by buying thinkpads.

https://youtu.be/T6eiFyJMWgM?si=KYryeboiIGrDbFyv

They don’t even need to do all that, plenty of people will download whatever the government tells them to, and when you add that to all the data databrokers (not just big tech companies) have and collect on the average American, it’s pretty obvious that they don’t need to even ask Google or Meta et al for that data. Your cell phone company is selling your location data. The average person isn’t gonna bother to try to obfuscate that data.

I’ll take “things that should be thrown out of court” for 500, Alex.

We have already established that AI outputs are not copyrightable.

That’s not something I’ve seen suggested before but it is an interesting way to go about it.

It shouldn’t be that hard for them to figure out who paid what because in order to pay/checkout at Costco you’re required to scan your membership card. So (while I’m not sure suing is the right way to go if they are trying to reimburse customers), it’s not exactly accurate to say they don’t know who bought what at a higher price.

I think it may be a good idea (since you already have an autism diagnosis) to get a diagnosis for the symptoms/behaviors you have that don’t necessarily fit with autism. ADHD seems likely to me but I am not a medical professional at all and my two cents is not worth much here. My personal experience was different. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and Austim as an adult (after my son was diagnosed). My behavioral traits and symptoms don’t line up 1-1 with yours, but it does seem like some of the things you mention aren’t explained by autism alone.

I also have the inattentive type ADHD, and I want to warn you that medication changes things a bit. Some of the stuff ADHD may be masking in your behavior (that is on the autism side of things) may become more prevalent if you happen to be diagnosed with ADHD and medicated. Some things cut both ways.