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> For the setup price alone of a low-end home lab1, you could buy several years of a paid subscription to one of the AI providers. The power costs would come out to around $50-$300…

Run it with a self-hosted model on a gaming PC running off a solar panel and UPS.

Or Trident, which was (and maybe still is?) Joyent's flagship product in the private cloud space.

Not just limited RAM, but limited RAM bandwidth, which seems like it would make this particularly painful on the N64 (ironic, given that the in-file README says that this came abou…

I've been resuming work on a Zig library for developing N64 homebrew¹. Previous milestone was getting a framebuffer onto the screen, and after achieving that I took an overly-long …

The obvious solution here (besides, like you say, requiring datacenter electricity to be from 100% renewable sources) is to just charge datacenters more for electricity, such that …

Companies have been building and selling clones of Nintendo consoles for many years now. I suspect if Nintendo had a legal angle against this they would've exercised it a long time…

I've been on-and-off writing a Zig library for writing N64 games and it's indeed pretty wild how getting working code was as simple as telling the compiler to use LLVM's MIPS III t…

While I agree with you, I think it's interesting that LLMs have progressed enough to be able to write working code even for niche and heavily-constrained platforms like the N64. I'…

The “development” version of that is even crazier: it's a very tiny signed bootloader that does nothing but copies the “real” bootloader into memory, then trampolines into it, such…

> It's very easy to make lazy, shallow dismissals that leaders like Dario/Demis/Sam are acting purely out of self-interest. It's very easy to make those dismissals because of how t…

The obvious solution here is for datacenter buildouts to include the power generation necessary for them to operate. Here in Nevada that's exactly what quite a few of the larger da…

You don't specifically need beef or almonds in order to live. Even small reductions in the consumption of either would entirely offset datacenter water use.

A lot of datacenters are built in / under / adjacent to office buildings.

I have multiple answers, since I routinely use multiple machines: - Primary desktop (custom-built): NixOS + Windows 11 (latter currently unbootable because installing NixOS nuked W…

Looks nice. Curious about the software; is it running Android or something more exotic? Custom app support? Custom firmware support?

The UK can surely afford it. If not, then surely they can require the datacenters themselves to foot the bill.

If every American skipped a single burger per year, that'd entirely offset the combined water use of all American datacenters. Datacenters, in other words, do not consume all that …

And at least one of those two countries is also building datacenters in droves and would have a vested interest in hindering foreign competition.

> those that want data centers are doing their damndest to somehow claim that they’re not responsible for the rise in the cost of utilities and shouldn’t be held responsible for it…

The UK is surrounded by a planet-spanning body of water. It has no excuse to be complaining about water shortages even if every square inch of it was a single giant datacenter.

Plenty of the people opposing datacenters are opposing them in places that already have datacenters. If there was a direct experience to be had, they would've already had it.

In my case it's way too sensitive, causing me to scroll too far every time.

It seems like they're indeed trying to sell “Orion+”, but it doesn't look like it buys you much besides bragging rights, in which case an Ardour-like business model of “source code…

The Linux beta feels nice. Built-in ad-blocking and nested vertical tabs satisfies the two main things keeping me on Firefox (unnerfed uBlock Origin and Tree Style Tabs, respective…