Peloton is overpriced to the point of being predatory, but at least the concept of an exercise bike in your house makes reasonable sense. Or at least, it’s no worse than mounting your real bike to a stationary trainer.

What really boggles my mind is things like “spin classes” and exercise bikes at gyms, where you waste time/money/pollution/road capacity driving a car to a place, pay to ride a fake bike there, and then drive home again. If you’d just ridden a real bike instead, you’d get the same benefit with both less money and less time.

Peloton. An expensive exercise bike that doesn’t work without an expensive subscription, and which has now even resorted to trying to discourage resale of used machines by extorting an an activation fee from second-hand buyers.

I think what OP is asking about is less about loss-leaders and more about vendor lock-in.

I’m having a hard time understanding your question, but I’ll try my best:

if the new gen of gpus has accellerators

• GPUs are pretty much nothing but [graphics] accelerators, although they are increasingly general-purpose for parallel computation and have a few other bits and pieces tacked on, like hardware video compression/decompression.

• If you typo’d “CPU,” then the answer appears to be that Intel desktop CPUs with integrated graphics are much more common than AMD CPUs with integrated graphics (a.k.a. “APUs”) because Intel sprinkles them in throughout their product range, whereas AMD mostly leaves the mid- to top-end of their range sans graphics because they assume you’ll buy a discrete graphics card. The integrated graphics on the AMD chips that do have them tend to be way faster than Intel integrated graphics, however.

• If you mean “AI accelerators,” then the answer is that that functionality is inherently part of what GPUs do these days (give or take driver support for Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA API) and also CPUs (from both Intel and AMD) are starting to come out with dedicated AI cores.

does any of the new intel stuff have any of that? I am still at the old i5 chips

“Old i5 chips” doesn’t mean much – that just means you have a midrange chip from any time between 2008 and now. What matters is the model number that comes after the “Core i5” part, e.g. “Core i5 750” (1st-gen from 2008) vs. “Core i5 14600” (most recent gen before rebranding to “Core Ultra 5”, from just last year).

As far as “it makes sense” goes, to be honest, an Intel CPU would still probably be a hard sell for me. The only reason I might consider one is if I had some niche circumstance (e.g. I was trying to build a Jellyfin server and having the best integrated hardware video encode/decode was the only thing I cared about).

What I really had in mind when I say it makes me want to buy Intel (aside from joking about rejecting “AI” buzzword hype) is the new Intel discrete GPU (“Battlemage”), oddly enough. It’s getting to be about time for me to finally upgrade from the AMD Vega 56 I’ve been using for over seven(!) years now, so I’ll be interested to see how the Intel Arc B770 might compare to the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (or whichever model it’s competing against).

Reminds me of a year and a half ago when !selfhosted was the biggest/most active community (or close to it).

This makes me want to buy Intel instead of AMD for the first time in a couple of decades.

Valve has always “let you” install SteamOS on anything you want – it’s copyleft software; they don’t have a choice.

What’s different now is that Valve will be facilitating you to do it by packaging the software in a less Steam Deck-specific way to make it easier.

I realize some might think this is a pedantic distinction, but it’s not okay for the media to disparage Free Software by ascribing more authority to Valve than it actually has.

who has been doing a fine job of operating it.

Trump is Big Mad that Panama doesn’t deny climate change, understands that the amount of water flow available from Lake Gatun is finite, and refuses to unsustainably drain it in order to push more traffic through the canal for the US’ short-term benefit.

She’s not the only one, either. They always expect you to figure it out.

I mean… they’re not wrong. If you’ve got the knack and they know it, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Admittedly, I don’t know a whole lot about what instruction set features the ESP32 actually has, but isn’t an embedded processor that small by nature lacking in things like, say, a memory management unit? Don’t take this the wrong way, but the notion of making a general-purpose OS that relies on cooperative multitasking seems a bit sketchy at a time when you could just spend an extra buck to move up to something like a Raspberry Pi Zero that can run a proper memory-safe and preemptive OS.

I would’ve assumed so too, but nope! I even checked before posting to make sure.

Here in Atlanta, the “big four” local network affiliates are owned by Tegna, Meredith, Cox, and Fox, respectively. The nearest Sinclair station is apparently in Macon.

Just don’t make the mistake of installing OTA antennas for them like I did. Put all the old black-and-white movies they want to watch on a Jellyfin server instead.

I finally, after much cajoling (and more importantly, after much increase in the monthly bill) got my parents to finally cut cable TV entirely. I even made sure they got Netflix as their streaming service so that they wouldn’t be exposed to any commercials.

Now they sit around watching mostly OTA TV all day, with so many ads for medicine and mortgage scams and other old-people shit that I can’t fathom how they can even stand it, let alone prefer it.

The one small comfort is that at least the local news in my area isn’t owned by Sinclair.

Nah, they want China to be “reunited” with Taiwan

Under the KMT, not the CCP, right?

Did you consider using the FreeCAD Gridfinity Workbench (or, for that matter, writing a patch for it to support drawers)?

Do I think it’s intentional that smartphones are ‘dumbed down’ compared to PCs, so as to turn them into devices for mindless consumption of corporate-controlled media instead of devices for empowering user freedom? Yes, yes I do.

inadvertently

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

I guess because it’s only at like version 0.2? There’s probably lots of things that it should do, but doesn’t yet.

“Older GPUs” means between the Radeon HD 2000 Series (2007) and Vega 20 (2018) for the decode part, and between the Radeon HD 7000 series (2012) and Vega 20 (2018) for the encode part.

I’ve still got a R7 260X (2013) in my Proxmox server; I wonder if this will make it more useful for Jellyfin transcoding?

Hi folks, I’m the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.

I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren’t as egregious.

The comments removed were:

• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285074
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14288217
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14288405
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285112

The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All

He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.

The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.

Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I’m now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he’s right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.

I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the “remove content” checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn’t record in the modlog that that’s what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn’t undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.

Anyway, I’ve looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can’t see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they’re viewed in context or something (I haven’t quite figured out the reason yet), so I can’t just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that’s nice I guess.

P.S.: I’d like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his…

• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285516

…which I not only didn’t remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it’s replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That’s how lenient I’ve intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.

P.P.S. I’m not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.