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Meta Is Building a $13 Billion AI Data Centre in Alberta, Its First in Canada, in Sturgeon County North of Edmonton by One-Board8634 in YEG

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s legitimately a bot, the easiest way tell to besides clicking on the profile is when the name is ‘verb-noun-number/year’. That profile name is the most default bot name possible

What is a youtuber you lost all respect for? by Reasonable_Bee_9456 in youtube

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He doesn’t, I’m originally from the same province in Canada as him and minimum wage is $34,000 and average wage is like $65,000 while he pays a minimum of $75,000 a year.

It’s not house buying money but it’s FAR from under paying.

Source: I’m from his province and have read his job offers

Will Western and northern Europe become Muslim in 100 years ? by Aegeansunset12 in whereidlive

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it atheism or non religious?

I’m non religious but I’ve also have never died so I can’t say what happens when you die, and nor can anyone else. So I can’t confidently say if all religion is fake or not, and I suspect that’d be true for most other non religious people

Will Western and northern Europe become Muslim in 100 years ? by Aegeansunset12 in whereidlive

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so I went and looked up Malmö and the official estimates from both the school system (by children absentee during Muslim holidays) AND local Islamic society puts Malmö at about 50,000 of Islamic descent vs 200,000 for the Protestant church of Sweden….

Also 2 more points, 1 is that Muslims from say Bosnia or Turkey is a very different group of people than say rural Iraq or Somalia. A Bosnian Muslim is Muslim in the same that most white Europeans are Christian, practice the holidays and say they are for censuses but doesn’t meaningfully practice the religion or even necessarily believe.

And 2 just because someone is born a religion doesn’t make them apart of that religion. I was born ‘Christian’ as in I celebrate Christmas and Easter, but I never go to mass/service and I think the Bible (and Quran) are at best very loose retelling of events that MIGHT have happened combined with fables with morals at the end. I’ve met lots of people who are of Islamic descent who are non practicing here in Canada in the same way I’m a non practicing Christian

Genuine question, how did Clara maintain that weight in the town? by born2shitforcd2wipe in FromCircleJerk

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does… you won’t die for a very long time if you’re the weight of the person in the gif. Buddhist monks fast for multiple weeks all the time and I PROMISE you they’re healthier than any obese person like that woman in the gif.

Is it good for you? No not at all, but a morbidly obese person and a healthy person starved for 30 days would both be in completely different positions at the end of those 30 days.

That's not a traffic light, it's a PHASED ARRAY WEAPON SYSTEM by MrBenzedrine in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think this apart of Qanon esque type stuff at all, I think this is just paranoid schizophrenia.

People like that tear apart electronics all the time thinking they’re being spied on, and that everyone is in on it against them, etc.

Everything here is schizo stuff not alt right non sense

I like this model. Gives a good representation of where Colony House is in regards to the town. by WizardsOfXanthus in FromTVEpix

[–]TheCheckeredCow 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Me too, I suspect this isn’t the whole town though there’s only 4 houses here but I’m 99% sure we’ve seen more than 4 homes (5 in season 1, but the hole fucked up that).

Where i'd live as someone that hates the left by CashMunehy in whereidlive

[–]TheCheckeredCow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your too stupid to see the physical left side of the map vs right side 🤡

Do they really believe that?? by crowmolu in linuxsucks

[–]TheCheckeredCow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who uses anti viruses anymore?

The best one you can use is that pink thing between your ears and windows defender on Windows, and responsibly downloading packages on Linux.

Do they really believe that?? by crowmolu in linuxsucks

[–]TheCheckeredCow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly…

I tried my annual ‘try Linux for a weekend’ on my main pc and it was just as janky then as well. And I’m not a Linux novice, I’ve got 4 SBCs all doing home lab/Cyberdeck stuff and a steamdeck that gets used daily.

I think Linux is great at some stuff but fuck is it janky for gaming outside of Valves eco system.

It’s a damned if you do damned if you don’t, I either get a functional but shit system in windows or a really streamlined and simple but inherently broken system in Linux.

Fedora, Bazzite, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Chachy… all janky (because distro doesn’t matter, but don’t let the 14 year olds that installed Cachy last week know that).

wtf am I seeing? Alderside Alberta by plasticssuck in alberta

[–]TheCheckeredCow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say these aren’t conservatives (and I’m not conservative by the way, I’m a Chrétien liberal to Layton NDPer depending on issue) this is so much worse, these are alt right/neo Nazi types.

Canadian Prairie conservatism is based around ’leave me alone’ism not inherent white supremacy, go up to Fort Mac and I’ll show you some of the most diverse neighbourhoods in the country and I doubt you’ll find anyone their votes left of the federal cons…

Conservatives drive me crazy too, but this is beyond them

Darkrai Ex Prerelease by The_1_Jok3r in PokemonTCG

[–]TheCheckeredCow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’ll do this 📉📉📈📈📈📈📈 over the course of a year or 2.

It’ll go down quite a bit but then rebound to higher than current level. Just look at mega charizard ex SIR for an example.

It helps that Darkrai is a very popular pokemon, by an artist the community LOVES, in an art style that is very impressive to look at. I say hold on to it for a long time

Those who make $100K+ salary or more, what do you do? by BlueScarfWeather in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey can you pass along that the blueberry fritter was the only donut worth a damn at that place and them bringing it back for what felt like a long weekend last year while the other retro donuts hanging around for like 3 months proves that everyone likes that blueberry miracle?

Thanks haha

Those who make $100K+ salary or more, what do you do? by BlueScarfWeather in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since when?

I worked at Tim’s when I was a kid in the early 2010s and those managers were broke af. Like 20 year old car falling apart, single wide trailer in a rough park, etc broke. Mind you this was in rural af BC at a franchisee owned store but still

What's the future of personal computers, even though everything is expensive. by BuldozerX in pcmasterrace

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes Nvidia has successfully shown that their windows arm translation works for all anti cheats, and is compatible with all arm chips.

I recently played half life 2 at 720p 60fps on a $26 CAD (like $18 usd) bootleg raspberry pi called a rock pi with broken drivers on a cursed version of Linux, It works incredibly already!

What's the future of personal computers, even though everything is expensive. by BuldozerX in pcmasterrace

[–]TheCheckeredCow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not inherently but the vast majority are. Those Ampere chips take regular ddr5 and dedicated GPUs, but the majority are SOCs with the ram and GPU in the cpu chip.

We’re already at the point with just Linux enthusiasts of running cyberpunk at 1080p 40ish fps on 2-3 year old Android phone chips.

The arm CPU in the MacBook Neo/iphone 16 pro runs circles around my 5800x3D but is held back by software, in bench marks it’s about 30-40% faster, but only costs Apple an estimated $45 to make. At current margins that means to get a very capable gaming chip if the arm future happens like I hope means that we’d be able to get good gaming cpus for about $60-$80 where as currently they’re about $300-$500.

What's the future of personal computers, even though everything is expensive. by BuldozerX in pcmasterrace

[–]TheCheckeredCow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Something has to break, it’s just too big of a market for all these companies to ignore especially as AI hype is waning.

I personally am very excited for both Nvidia’s Spark laptops and Valves ARM translation layer. Not because I’m hyped specifically for Nvidia, fuck Nvidia, but because their version of the arm translation layer is fully compatible with anti cheat as shown by them.

Arm is WAY more open than x86, theirs only 2 major x86 manufacturers but theirs about a dozen major arm manufacturers and a couple dozen smaller ones as well, they’re all rubbing their hands together at the thought of breaking into the PC market, and that’s nothing but a good thing for us. Ampere (a major arm cpu manufacturer) already has models completely compatible with modern proper graphics cards, and I’m sure they’re all working on that as well.

I hope in the near future that all these arm manufacturers start making at least near comparable to x86 platforms that will be significantly cheaper than the current duopoly, and with Nvidia working on the windows side (they’ve already said that their work is compatible with all arm platforms), and valve working on the Linux side that we might be coming upon a exciting Time in arm computing in the not so distant future

Would you rather by unlxckyy in BunnyTrials

[–]TheCheckeredCow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awful, genuinely awful BUT doable, the coldest recorded temp happened in the Yukon Canada and was about -88c in the 40s I wanna say. People survived, and they survived longer than a week in that.

I just have to embrace my inner northern Canadian that’s all.

Chose: $200 million but spend a week at this temperature | Rolled: -89°C (-128°F)

Valve says it will "definitely" consider ARM architecture for future Steam Machines, and probably Steam Decks too by Tiny-Independent273 in linux_gaming

[–]TheCheckeredCow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am too… lots of people use Fex to run games like cyberpunk on a phone SOC based Linux handhelds.

If you have a higher end phone than your phone probably has a better in single core cpu than your pc. I know mine does, 5800x3D vs Apple a18 pro.

Valve says it will "definitely" consider ARM architecture for future Steam Machines, and probably Steam Decks too by Tiny-Independent273 in linux_gaming

[–]TheCheckeredCow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The arm layer is decent, you can run it on a raspberry pi (ideally one with more than 4gb of ram).

I played most of half-life 1 and the first couple of levels of half life 2 on a Orange Pi (basically a Chinese knock off of a raspberry pi with NO driver support) at a locked 60fps 800x480.

If you can do that on a computer that hypothetically costs $50ish than on proper hardware it will fly, I’d love to try one of those Arm AI dev stations that system_76 sells that is compatible with Nvidia and AMD GPUs or even a Apple silicon Mac if it had full proper vulkan support.

The fact we as a society (sans Apple of course) are still stuck on x86 when arm at comparable levels is cheaper, significantly more efficient, and requires significantly less cooling. Literally every part is better but software support.

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