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Price is comparable to a used RTX3090 with 24GB vram, which is probably more attractive to someone who is also interested in Linux/Windows gaming (and already owns a pc I mean). I would also guess that the RTX would be faster than the MacBook. IMO unified ram is more interesting when you can get a lot of it

2010 is ancient technology, according to wikipedia Nvidia released the 600 series in 2012… Even if there was some inference engine supporting it then lack of computational speed and memory bandwidth would probably make it not worth the effort.

I bought a used 3090 two years ago, and back then they were usually listed for €800-1000 in my country. I thought I was lucky to find one for €700 after searching for a few months, and I don’t think they’ve ever been cheaper than this here. There are definitely fewer of them available now, but you can still buy one for €950 (and possibly even lower if you’re patient). So prices have gone up, but IMO not by ridiculous amounts like RAM.

• Full Bore is IMO one of the most underrated games on Steam (10+ years old and only 78 reviews) if you like puzzle platformers.
• Baba is You if you like puzzles without platforming.
• Dropsy surrealistic point-and-click.
• SteamWorld Dig 2 metroidvania, and currently on sale.
• Ittle Dew Zelda-style adventure game… with puzzles.
• VVVVVV retro puzzle game, with platforms but no jumping.

I thought I had more varied taste in games but kind of realizing that there’s a pattern now that I’m writing down the ones I’ve enjoyed the most.

I’m not saying I think it’s going to be intentionally killed or taken down, my prediction is that everything is going to turn to garbage when bots are vastly outnumbering human users. And I think that unfortunately the only form of “captcha” that will be able to keep bots out at scale is some form of centrally issued human ID coupled with an unbroken cryptographic chain starting on hardware level. But I am of course talking only about larger public services, small invite-only private instances would definitely still be an option.

3. With AI becoming stronger and stronger, it’s just a matter of time before the part of the internet without OS-level attestation tied to government issued IDs is going to become completely unusable. At some not too distant point anyone with a Claude/ChatGPT/etc subscription will be able to instruct it with things like “Invent 20 different personalities and create accounts on different Lemmy instances for them. Write neutral comments for them for a few weeks, then gradually begin to subtlety promote X. Use your psychology skills etc. to manipulate other users to support X and coordinate the accounts to shut down anyone criticizing X. Always post in character and never reveal that you are an AI.” Then multiply that by a million people trying to push their ideas, products, politics, conspiracy theories, etc.