I use this, it’s good.

See this comment for math and specifics: https://lemmy.world/post/38090104/20233592

But the TL;DR version:

• Launching anything into space is heinously expensive. And CO2 emissive.

• With very generous math, you’d need a radiator like a mile across to cool a space data center, but practically? Larger.

• Datacenter hardware is unreliable and goes obsolete quickly, and any kind of maintenance in space is basically cost prohibitive.

• There are other smaller yet still crippling engineering challenges, like bit flips from radiation (which gets move severe as lithography shrinks; look up Nvidia’s research on this), assembling large structures in space reliably, cooling loops for such gigantic structures, and extremely difficult/expensive networking (with distinct issues in LEO or geosynchronous).

And most of all… Solar is dirt cheap on Earth, compared to that.

So is just sticking a pipe in the ground for a geothermal loop, or ambient radiative cooling. We literally have tons of mass to dissipate heat into for free, instead of having to radiate it thermally, yet that’s too expensive for ground data centers, apparently.

That’s the joke.

It’s like saying “air conditioning is difficult” and proposing “I know! Let’s live under the Antarctic ice sheet!” That’s not hyperbole. It might be more practical, actually, as getting mass there is waaaay cheaper…

Except maybe for the cinematic part.

I mean… The rendered cutscenes? The emotive facial expressions synced to dialogue and music? Just to start?

because I don’t know what makes a game cinematic.

…Look. I’ve played text-only RPGs and 2000s top down explorers that would fit in the cache of my CPU now, and they’re great! But you can’t tell me the visual gulf between BG1 and BG3 isn’t blindingly obvious. It’s almost a different medium!

or why you’d want a CRPG to be cinematic.

…Because I like seeing the emotions of my party and my character? And the visuals details of exploration?

Again, interpoliating all that in one’s head like a novel is fine, but I like an interactive movie, too!

That’s what sold me. I’m not a fan of the pen-and-paper mechanics so directly translated, TBH, but the sheer depth of presentation and the party characters are what kept me hooked.

To answer your question, it’s very hard at that scale/temperature: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/heatrad.php

Oblivion’s side quests (and into) had charm though. Especially the Shivering Isles, that was great.

The real problem is social media, and how feeds are structured now.

The ‘few trustworthy institutions’ model has been utterly obliterated because a few tech companies figured out a sea of influencers is more profitable/exploitable. Not to minimize some of the great creators out there, but one’s daily news shouldn’t come from Joe Rogan + your Facebook uncle’s reshares.

The really hilarious thing is evaporative cooling (that takes so much water) is simple penny pinching over a closed loop system. That’s all.

…Yet Bezos and Musk are talking orbital datacenters?

Pick a lane?

Honestly I don’t even like fantasy CRPGs (hence I don’t have the reference of 1/2), but BG3 kinda blew me away.

It’s incredibly cinematic. The world design is tight and reasonably interconnected, voice acting great, and I thought the script was fine.

UI and build choice was… alright, not the best. I can see room for improvement there. A lot of mods seem to be going for that.

That’s kind of the game’s theme, ironically. Meditative peace.

To be fair, the gameplay loop isn’t the most fun for me either, but I got really hooked by the ambience and characters.

There’s definitely some nostalgia glasses.

And I dunno where you started, but I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and couldn’t even get through an hour of Starfield. It played like a upscaled Xbox 360 game, with all the jank, yet none of the charm, more filler, all the loading screens, yet somehow ran like molasses. I have no idea what folks see in that game, despite the premise basically being made for me.

Speaking as one of those “I self isolated and stop responding to friends” folks years later:

Definitely reach out. Emphasize not to worry about the ghosting; I guarantee she’s literally worried sick over it. Do it, even if you have to do it through family. They’ll all be glad.

Pasty faced millennial here.

Also EE dropout (working on that).

I hope I am as enlightened and put together as you when I’m 50. Cheers.

But I do have one answer for you:

I lost hope for this nation when Trump was elected this last time. I couldn’t understand how people could not see the obvious.

Facebook.

My ‘moment of clarity’ was when I saw a local news station running clips of college girls’ enthusiasm for Trump, just after the election. The sentiment was along the lines of “He’s so strong!” or “I really feel like he gets us, you know?” and almost directly quoting some meme’s I’d seen.

And seeing die hard libertarians I know swallow Trump’s accumulation of executive power, via their perception of events, drove it home.

…Walk the street, and look around. I’m using ‘Facebook’ as a catch-all here: algorithmic feeds and influencers are warping reality for smart folks, both ways. Every generation is caught up in it, but I feel the age extremes (Boomers and Z) are most vulnerable here.

Transhumanism is cool though! I adore the OA universe, for example: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front

…I think its important to keep ‘machine learning as a neat tool’ distinct from cultish ‘AI’ futurology. Hence some folks might interpret this questions as “why aren’t you using AI yet, bro!? AGI’s inevitable, get on board!” The latter is what a lot of news/advertising is blasting.

I think you double posted OP.

Fuck Facebook, Twitter.

…That’s the big one. Folks will always get in cults, but never has it been so supercharged and weaponized by algorithmic machines that will, literally, hook into peoples’ brains to make a penny on mis/disinformation: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

4GB VRAM

Mmmmm… I would wait a few days, and try a GGUF quantization of Kimi Linear once its better supported: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

Otherwise you can mess with Qwen 3 VL now, in the native llama.cpp UI. But be aware that Qwen is pretty sycophantic like ChatGPT: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF/blob/main/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf

If you’re interested, I can work out an optimal launch command. But to be blunt, with that setup, you’re kinda better off using free LLM APIs with a local chat UI.

Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

It does, doesn’t it?

If Meta is literally making billions from ads, how much are the scammers buying them making?

People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

Eh, part of it is FOMO. I can’t blame older folks if all their friends and kids and grandkids are on (say) Facebook, and that’s the most advanced means they have of communicating with them that they’re capable of using. What are they supposed to do?

Yeah, exactly… In other words, ‘general server buildout.’

That’s (as I understand it) a misconception.

Apple attaches their laptop RAM the same way all smartphones do. It’s a wide bus with LPDDR, which makes it an unusual configuration amongst laptops, but it’s technically conventional. And relatively cheap.

AMD’s Strix Halo chips are the same. Apple could use LPCAMM to make the memory upgradable if they wanted, they just… don’t.

When we talk ‘packaging’, we’re talking putting chips on advanced substrates with denser wires than one could possibly get on a motherboard (or a ‘mini’ motherboard which is kinda what Apple/smartphone RAM is packaged on), stuff silicon fabs have to do:

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/services/advanced-packaging

And HBM falls into this bucket. The way its hooked up to the processor is physically different than PC RAM sticks, or Apple’s RAM. This is mostly not done on consumer stuff because its very expensive, and most of TSMC’s advanced packaging production capacity is reserved for server stuff.