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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Also cooling! Right now each interaction from each person using chatGPT uses roughly a bottle’s worth of water per 100 words generated (according to a research study in 2023). This was with GPT-4 so it may be slightly more or slightly less now, but probably more considering their models have actually gotten more expensive for them to host (more energy used -> more heat produced -> more cooling needed).

    Now consider how that scales with the amount of people using ChatGPT every day. Even if energy is clean everything else about AI isn’t.


  • The problem is that we only have a finite amount of energy. If all of our clean energy output is going toward AI then yeah it’s clean but it means we have to use other less clean sources of energy for things that are objectively more important than AI - powering homes, food production, hospitals, etc.

    Even “clean” energy still has downsides to the environment also like noise pollution (impacts local wildlife), taking up large amounts of space (deforestation), using up large amounts of water for cooling, or having emissions that aren’t greenhouse gases, etc. Ultimately we’re still using unfathomably large amounts of energy to train and use a corporate chatbot trained on all our personal data, and that energy use still has consequences even if it’s “clean”


  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 days ago

    Ngl I’m Gen Z and I have no clue who either of these people are.

    I also kind of live under a rock tho, the only TV show I ever really followed was the first few seasons on Stranger Things, and I don’t listen to pop music. I don’t really pay attention to specific actors/celebrities unless they do something bad enough outside of acting that it breaks into my news feeds.




  • Signal is private in that other people can’t intercept your messages, including signal. The signal app is open-source so you can be relatively certain it’s not tracking your decrypted messages, unlike closed-source apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or any other private social media.

    Signal is not anonymous from an account standpoint, because you need a phone number to sign up, even if you can choose not to display it in your account.





  • Hardest from an initial playthrough standpoint might honestly be diamond/pearl because they had pretty bad level scaling throughout a lot of the game. Once you’ve played through it once it’s easy to prepare for the difficult parts though.

    From a nuzlocke standpoint ultra sun/moon are also pretty hard because of the necrozma fight but again when you know it’s coming it’s honestly not that hard to prepare for.

    I’ve never played through regular BW2 on hard mode but I’ve played through a sizeable portion of the drayano hacks (blaze black 2/volt white 2) in hard mode and those were pretty challenging.


  • I’d say it is (was? It’s been ~a year and a half since I used it consistently but I’m guessing it hasn’t changed too much since then) moderately left by US standards but definitely not progressive left - you don’t have to go very far to find thinly-veiled sexism/racism/homophobia, though that might just be because a large portion of the people there are terminally online in a bad way. That being said, there are definitely also communities ranging from conservative to hardcore conservative as well but I actively tried to avoid those so I didn’t really see them in my feeds. The same is true with progressive communities but they tended to drift away from being actually progressive once they got to a certain size.









  • I’ve had a OnePlus 9 Pro since around when it came out in April 2021. Around 6 months later I installed AccuBattery and started trying to keep my phone between 20-80% battery. I still charge it to 100% sometimes, like when I think I won’t have access to a charger or will be out for a while, but generally I stick to it. It is also good to do a full charge (<15% to 100%) once every few weeks because it helps the battery stay calibrated and give accurate percentage readings.

    In the 3+ years since then, my phone’s reported battery health has gone from a little over 90% to ~83-85%. I also almost exclusively use the 65w fast charger that came with my phone (I’m impatient) so that might be hurting my battery a bit more also. Here’s the graph of battery health over time that AccuBattery shows me