Yeah, I thought about including a NordVPN advertisement in my comment... Do people do that? I mean sure it's an additional privacy technique. But I regularly just talk about whatever legal things I like and I don't take this too seriously. It's my regular internet connection. I make a clean cut after that, though. If I now were to download something, I'd think about not doing it in plain sight. And I'd use a different username to sign up somewhere if needed.

Though, I forgot to talk about different jurisductions. And for example where I live, I can't give someone instructions on how to commit a crime. Or help doing illegal things. So that's another thing I avoid.

I mean… I jumped on a 3080FE several years ago near release time because

• Rona time
• it was an absurd amount of generational uplift - as in, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that sort of gen-over-gen performance gain again

They just don’t make that big of a difference.

The 40 series was basically the exact opposite of this. The lower down the stack the worse the per generation gains got. With the lower end cards sometimes seeing regressions because of the lack of memory bandwidth/capacity.

My 4060ti scores lower than my 3060 on large language model benchmarks. I have a Zen 3 APU, so it's limited to PCIe 3.0. Lower performance in some games too.

I imagine if I had a regular Zen 3 and tested each card by itself in slot 0, the 4060ti would be faster, but it is what it is.

I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.

I like the way you think.

So block the communities instead of the ENTIRE INSTANCE.

Smug libs keep shutting out their own neighbors without realizing the disastrous effects of siloing large swaths pf vulnerable people from reaching ANYONE. Tribalism has had such a terrible effect on the world yet I see smug otherwise very intelligent people climbing over one another to engage in it.

IMO, the only way to stop ignorance and hate is to actually know people from MANY walks of life and face those differences head on. If you dismiss every last one of them wholesale at the slightest sign of differences, you are intellectually weak and deserve the dystopian future we are all being herded and astroturfed into.

Actually……

If I were a true hexbear user, I’d be glad to be defederated from lemmy.world. But I’m not.

I think that defederation is a bad idea. That’s why I joined an instance with a relatively hands-off approach to moderation.

You see, I’m an anarchist. I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police. I am philosophically opposed to whole instances making the call to defederate from another no matter how Nazi or capitalist that instance is.