40MHz is plenty for doom.
Ew, no. Even 386DX-40 is terrible for Doom:
Doom timedemo 386 DX 40 MHz DOS PC
486SX-33 is certainly playable, but you really want 486DX2/66:
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Edit 2: These videos are accurate, btw. I upgraded from 386SX-25 to 486SX-33 just for Doom while my friend got the 486DX2/66 Packard Bell. Envy.
Edit 3: My memory forced me to go back and properly designate the models.
I am concerned about the energy abuse of LLMs, but it gets worse. AGI is right around the corner, and I fear that law of diminishing return may not apply due to advantages it will bring. We’re in need of new, sustainable energy like nuclear now because it will not stop.
Would you kindly find a source for that?
I can personally speak from the 80s, so that’s not exactly a golden age of reliable information. There was concern about scale of infinite growth and power requirements in a perpetual 24/7 full-load timeshare by people that were almost certainly not qualified to talk about the subject.
I was never concerned enough to look into it, but I sure remember the FUD: “They are going to grow to the size of countries!” - “They are going to drink our oceans dry!” … Like I said, unqualified people.
Another factor is that there aren’t that many supercomputers in the world, a handful of thousand of them.
They never took off like the concerned feared. We don’t even concern ourselves with their existence.
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While I absolutely agree with everything you’ve stated, I’m not taking a moral position here. I’m just positing that the same arguments of concern have been on the table since the establishment of massive computational power regardless of how, or by whom, it was to be utilized.
Supercomputers were feared to be untenable resource consumers then, too.
Utilizing nuclear to feed AI may be the responsible and sustainable option, but there’s a lot of FUD surrounding all of these things.
One thing is certain: Humans (and now AI) will continue to advance technology, regardless of consequence.
The forefront of technology overutilizes resources?
Always has been.
Edit: Supercomputers have existed for 60 years.
And where will it get the cash? An analogue of OnlyFans.
Watch, it’ll happen.
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Squashtika
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“I fuck Arch, btw.”
This may come as a shock, but some people happen to enjoy content.
Crazy concept, I know.
Bah gaw. Terry Davis would say you “glow in the dark.”
Buttholes are Leather Oreos, and they can’t take that away from us.
“I don’t want Fop, goddamnit; I’m a Dapper Dan man!”
“Eye am the liquor, Bobandy.”
We are one step closer to universal translation.
“Not in my lifetime, by choice.”
Eric S. Raymond carved Plan 9’s headstone 20 years ago:
The long view of history may tell a different story, but in 2003 it looks like Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
Raymond predicted subsumation as legacy:
It may well be that over time, much more of Plan 9 will work its way into Unix as various portions of Unix’s architecture slide into senescence. This is one possible line of development for Unix’s future.
I wouldn’t call these a ringing endorsement of envy.
I’m not aware of any software phasing out X11 support in favor of Wayland.
No, it isn’t. Wayland is a toy for people who play. X11 is a tool for people who work.
The concept of work is relative. See below.
Won’t be long now before your your favorite DE’s will only be available on Wayland, and be missing features because of it.
That doesn’t concern me at all personally—and if I wore your temperament on my sleeve, DEs should get the fuck away from X11 altogether.
My use case requirements have never involved DEs, and if I ever want to flirt with that kind of casual experience it may as well be with new boobs like Wayland.
I could huff “get off my lawn” just as hard as any other, but why? Let people choose whatever they want.
It does not FULLY replace X11 functionality, and they have no intent to fix that.
No kidding. That’s the entire mission statement of Wayland.
Why go backwards and break what works for our daily jobs?
Nothing is stopping you from using X11 outside of company policy, which is an entirely different problem.
It fucking moronic.
No it’s not.
I’m a longtime user of X11 and vastly prefer it for what I do, but I’m not going to force the opinion of my preference on others with different use case requirements.
C’mon, the *nix world is big enough for choice.
Are you sure you didn’t set low-detail with the viewport cranked way down? I played it on the same model
with a math co-processorand it could not handle high-detail and the large viewport in the video.Edit: I’m fairly certain I had a math co-processor, but I’ll defer to you on this detail just in case. That would certainly make a sizeable difference.