Considering only the queries ommits all the energy used in training models, scraping and preparing data and all the indirect energy from putting a greater load in servers all around the world from scraping them all the time. oh, and all the energy in the manufacturing processes of the hardware, and from building the servers. We must consider the consumption of the industry as a whole, or we’re being biased as well.

Articles keep showing up explaining how queries aren’t so power-hungry, but the corporations keep draining more and more energy, building more and more power plants that never keep up with the demand, and so on.

About keeping the children safe

It’s always security when someone wants to take our freedom away. Always security…

That’s interesting to know. I’d be devastated if I spent more morey for one and felt like it wasn’t worth it. Those devices are too expensive around here.

By the way, don’t you find it useful for reading stuff on the internet, like web articles, news, etc? When I looked for one, I also imagined myself connecting a bluetooth keyboard and using it for writing.

Maybe my different experience comes from living in the global south. All of the are expensive in here, so kindle has no price advantage

I mentioned some in this other comment: https://lemmy.zip/post/49532624/21704502

I used a cybook odyssey for more than 10 years, so I guess bookeen devices can be a good choice. I’m currently using a refurbrished tolino vision 2 and the experience is also much better than the kindles I tried.

But if I had more money, I would probably have bought a device from boox. They make nice ereaders, some even with android,being much more flexible than a kindle. Devices from bigme and the meebooks also look nice, but I don’t know if they have good cases.

I’m sure there are other good options around. These are just the ones I know.

There are so many alternative ereaders that are better than the kindle, that I don’t get why people buy it.

I once borrowed one from a friend and it didn’t even let me organize media in directories from a pc. The directory structure got all messed up and it was a pain to follow my study sequence. Any cheap Chinese ereader would allow that.

So they downloaded it all to train their models and didn’t even seed back!?

I’ll check it later, thanks

Thank you very much

For every one, there’s the younger relatively who installed it for them, so things are in perfect balance in the end.

Then maybe you will love debian. Imagine an OS that receives mostly security updates and changes very slowly, that looks the same after a decade.

There will be a drastic change in the beginning, when moving from windows, but after a while, you will see how stable things will get

For me, linux only presented a few problems as the beginning, but became rock stable with time. I don’t even remember the last time I had to stop my work to deal with issues in my pc

Thank you very much for taking your time to explain this. if you don’t mind, do you recommend some reference for further reading on how llms work internally?

Wouldn’t that only explain errors by omission? If you ask for a letter, let’s say D, it would omit words containing that same letter when in a token in conjunction with more letters, like Da, De, etc, but how would it return something where the letter D isn’t even in the word?

Fun fact; Here in Brazil, the cheaper tv models being sold are 720p, and a lot of people buy them and don’t even know what video resolution is, neither they feel like missing something lol

Let the long awaited convergence be finally true!

I’d prefer that firefox os had caught on and turned into a big player today

Don’t threaten, just do it!

I don’t get why people are so stubborn to move away from corporate products.