no😢

ai has a place in the world, but replacing something like this is not where it should be used

this guys gonna get the fucking Darwin award if he keeps doing this 🤦

they have less text and they have an image

this is a freaking essay

this is false

I’m not sure if you realize this, but wages and salaries do in fact exist

ngl stands for not gonna lie

ngl, sonic giving birth to borat might be an acceptable use case for ai

most posts here have a bit more detail in them ngl

i wouldn’t say ‘love’, but its kinda helpful sometimes

I haven’t read past the words theil and trump. I’m not offended at all, because I haven’t read it, because I don’t wanna know what this is.

I am tired of reading about politics and I came here to look at something funny. this isnt funny

ur right, its not a meme. this is politics and should go in c/politics@lemmy.world

yeah you do, I’m telling you to delete this and repost it in c/politics

just put this somewhere else. I came here looking for entertainment, not politics

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are you advocating for suicide? because it really seems like you are

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There still needs to be some way for the devs to pay the server costs and API costs. What I’m suggesting is a way for the user to sell their processing power to them instead of paying an irritating $2 every month. And while the price of cryptocurrencies vary, they don’t vary fast enough to make mining profits (if you sell the coins as you produce them) unpredictable

As long as we’re still burning fossil fuels to create electricity anywhere on earth, wasting any kind of energy is bad.

So your saying that if I use solar power to power a lightbulb that then I forget to turn off, that’s bad?

It doesn’t add any value to anything. It’s expensive (in terms of energy cost) and absolutely, 100% useless.

Uh actually it is not useless, no idea where you got that, there’s tons of things you can buy with it. Other than drugs (which alone provide a use case, but il continue anyway), you can pay for protonmail, buy computer and other stuff. and theres a few lists (https://monerica/ .com/ is one) with a bunch of more stuff you can do with it. (I’m not endorsing anything here, just saying it exists)

crypto just facilitates more trade over the internet, thats how its useful

First and foremost. Most people’s devices are not powerful enough to make any money mining any cryptocurrency.

That depends on the currency. Miners working on something like bitcoin have to compete with massive corporations who construct special ASIC chips that have vastly higher hash rates, making it impossible for anyone who isn’t using such a chip to create any profit. Some currencies, like Monero (XMR) use special hash functions designed is such a way that custom mining hardware for them cant be constructed, and so mining can only happen on cpus. Because of this, its actually possible to make money mining Monero. There’s a benchmark for the hash rates of various cpus, and here’s a link to convert that to projected profits. My PC can calculate 3500 hashes per second, and this translates into USD 0.0045 per hour. That might not seem like much, but if you add together all the money that would be produced by all the players in this game, it would become substantial.

Also a cryptominer is not “free real state” it chugs the computer. The user would have a terrible experience trying to do anything with a cryptominer on the background.

That all depends on how many threads the miner is running. I honestly wouldn’t be able tell if I’m running 2 threads of a Monero miner on my PC unless I look at my task manager - its really not that intensive at that level. Now of course, if it was using the full power of my cpu, I would be a lot hard to do any other task on it, but it doesn’t need to run at full power like that.

And finally, there are many free software out there. Not everything is to be monetized. Some things should just be free. I have done plenty of free things for others to enjoy, it’s not the end of the world, quite the opposite is quite rewarding.

I agree and this game costs something to run, all the server costs and the API costs, and there needs to be some way of paying for that. I suppose it could become free if it was sustained with donations, and in that case having the option to run a miner like this on the client could be a way to add to that, giving the user the option to donate their computing power if they wanted to.

why would the software need to know where its electricity is coming from?

I’ve reread this several times and I still have no idea what you’re trying to say.