YellowJersey

Sadly, I can't help you there without risking a ban.

Well, I have a song I'd like to sing about that. It goes a little something, like this: Yar har fiddle dee dee!

You'd also be surprised how in-demand old components are. I pulled apart some old laptops before taking them to be disposed of and the the old DDR2 memory sold out before the DDR3 sticks did. Even though I was only selling them for $5 a stick. And hell, $5 is better than a kick in the teeth.

I wouldn't say Windows 10 is "no nonsense." I find it full of nonsense, though that could just be because my neurons to are too old and clogged with tumours to keep up.

It's amazing how many people get weirdly upset by entirely optional stuff like this.

The only bits I have laying around are a few casefans and a single stick of DDR3 laptop memory, so I'm a far cry from a full system. That said, I always sell my old stuff, even if it's barely worth the time, just so that usable parts get used rather than in the landfill or gathering dust.

My first computer as a kid (under 10 years old) ran DOS. Why did I have a PC that young? My parents worked for a tech company; we were swimming in all kinds of stuff. My monitor was black and white, though.

Actually, it is your car. If you purchased the car, even with loaned funds, you are still the owner (ie, hold title). The creditor has the car as security, meaning they have the right to seize and sell it if the debtor defaults on the loan. In land law, we call this an, "encumbrance." I, for one, hate the future... and the present... and the past wasn't so great either. Maybe people just suck?

We're all mad here. *tilts head to the side*

None of the bike shops here have anything under $1500. I'm thinking of getting a DaVinci for my next bike as it is (last time I checked) the only independent Canadian bicycle maker left.

Because people tie the brands whose products they purchase to their personal identity, so acknowledging when that company does something wrong is tantamount to personal failure and criticising that company is tantamount to a personal attack, so people defend the company. Reality is absurd.

Fair point. There's also the fact that most of the people creating/interpreting these laws (politicians and judges) are so old that they probably don't understand the technology; not exactly an uncommon problem. Edit: @Arika S TBH, the work you describe sounds like it would fall more under patents than copyright. So perhaps the system you create to generate the artwork could be subject to IP protection via patents, but the actual artwork itself would not, at least under current copyright law.

Copyright law also requires a degree of effort to be put into the work in order for it to be protected by copyright. You can't just load up a book, find/replace all the names, and all it a day. My guess is that since the AI does most of the work and the user just enters prompts doesn't meet the threshold for skill and judgment put into a work.

How far does $830 USD a month go in Malaysia?

Not necessarily. If that were true, the corpos wouldn't be spending billions every year to lobby politicians to create, change, or scrap laws to their benefit. The law is constantly changing and until there's legislation (preferably with the blessing of the US supreme court) that clearly and unambiguously states whether AI works can be subject to copyright protection there is still a haze of uncertainty surrounding the subject. The current state of the law and the interpretation thereof supports the notion that AI works cannot be subject to copyright protection. But the law is what the law is... until it isn't anymore. AI is a disruptive technology and like all disruptive technologies there are going to be those in favour of the status quo and those in favour of expanding the existing law to account for it.

What processor are you running?

For the first time, I actually have more gear than I can fit into my bag, but my current kit consists of: Sony A7rIII Tamron 17-28mm 2.8 Sony 24-105mm f4 Sigma 100-600mm 5-6.3 DG DN OS Sigma 20mm 1.4 DG DN Sigma 40mm 1.4 DG Other stuff: -spare battery -battery bank -various filters -intervalometer -SD cards

Not much I can do, other than tell people what they're doing, not that I expect people to listen. To call people " dangerously stupid beyond all reason and sense" would be an understatement, so the corpos will get away with it; they always do. I feel like I'm cursed to stand by and watch humanity as it seems bound and determined to do the wrong thing. I kinda feel like Charlton Heston at the end of Soylent Green.

I knew it! I lived out there for a few years and as soon as I heard him pronounce, "hard," I knew he had to be from NS.

I don't recall if it's been mentioned before, but I'm pretty sure he's from NS given the way he pronounces, "hard" in the Genesis G80 EV Short Circuit (at 4:50)

Smacks of the 4080 all over again. But, that's what corporations seem to do. Pull some shit, face the backlash, reverse course, then quietly do the same shit again once people have gotten used to the idea. This has been happening with DLC, loot boxes, always online, deluxe editions, etc with gaming for years. You couldn't make the jump from "Here's a complete game for one price" to "here's a fraction of an unfinished game that you'll have to pay extra to get the rest of" in one go. You go slowly. I see it all the time. So I imagine nvidia will keep pulling this shit and each time the backlash will be a little bit less until it's been normalised and no one raises a fuss anymore.

Yeah, I know what you mean. There are a lot of people posting with everything but the answer to the question you actually asked. As for your question, I think your approach is fairly reasonable, so I'd say go for it. One bit of advice I might give is potentially leave yourself some upgrade room so that you could maybe do a drop-in CPU or GPU upgrade that gets you a few more years out of it, since performance that's top-of-the-line now will be fairly midrange after a few generations That's what I did with my current build. My RX 6600XT suits me fine for now, but I'll probably put something more powerful in it in a few years as right now I'm really GPU bottlenecked. So for me, I'm currently looking at 6-8 years with a GPU upgrade around the 3-4 mark. Ideally, something like an RX 6800 would pair nicely with my CPU, but I didn't want to spend the extra money. So I figured I'll go with the RX 6600XT now and then get something with RX 6800-ish performance in 3-4 years without having to pay the higher price the RX 6800 demanded at the time I built my machine, then flip the RX 6600 XT to help absorb the cost. I dunno, maybe I'm over complicating things, since if I spend $400 CAD on a GPU now and then another $400 CAD on a GPU in 3-4 years I'll have spent roughly the same amount as I would have had I just put up the $800 CAD to get the RX 6800 from the get go. So maybe it makes sense to splurge now and get the higher end stuff and then not worry about it for 7ish years. I wouldn't say there's any right or wrong way of doing it so long as your computer does what you want it to do without breaking the bank. There are lots of approaches you can take. One thing I grappled with for my last build was "Do I spend $1000 CAD and replace in five years or spend $2000 CAD and replace in 10 years?" Which would give me the better overall experience?

I feel like Windows Vista, 7, and 8 had some personality to them. Windows 10 and 11 feel very cold and sterile by comparison.

It took me 9 minutes into the video to realise that those weren't googly eyes on the display in the background. I had one on my first trip to NZ in 2007, but it failed on me; been CF and SD cards ever since for me. (I don't have a camera that takes CF Express yet).

Less than $5M in Vancouver? I see you live in abject poverty.