Trump says he will offer 'gold cards' for $5 million path to citizenship
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Wonder if Bobby Tables is on the nice list?
How worried should US people be about "tariffs"? Should I invest in upgrading my equipment ASAP?
How worried should US people be about "tariffs"? Should I invest in upgrading my equipment ASAP? - Lemmy Today
Basically title. I’m a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren’t we all.) I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc… All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I’ll instead be paying +60% more on like everything. I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so? I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance. Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just…keeps getting worse. I am getting paid for my digital art, it’s not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying. Thanks in advance. <3
Also, I can’t even imagine how many resources image-generating AIs take up, especially when it’s all based around “refining prompts” over and over and over…
The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water"
The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" - Lemmy Today
The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning. * LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water. * Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water. * We don’t have a lot of fresh water on this planet. * Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture. —personal opinion— This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O. Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .