• Kacarott@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    You really went looking for something to hate on there didn’t you. That is the only sentence in the whole article that even mentions power consumption, all the other arguments both fit and against are for a variety of other topics.

    It seems to be that you are more likely caught up in some kind of movement if one argument from one person is enough for you to label everyone there luddites

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      8 months ago

      You really went looking for something to hate on there didn’t you. That is the only sentence in the whole article that even mentions power consumption, all the other arguments both fit and against are for a variety of other topics.

      The rest of the ridiculous moralizing was pretty bad as well. This was just the most egregiously stupid thing listed in the article.

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        8 months ago

        I thought your comment was more ridiculous

        1 person making a query has thousands of hours of computing behind it

        1 person compiling software themselves does not

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          8 months ago

          I’m not saying AI is not energy intensive. I’m saying the team who developed the least efficient Linux distribution throwing shade about AI being “energy inefficient” are hypocrites.

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            8 months ago

            But again it wasn’t the team, and it wasn’t " throwing shade" it was one guy, who listed it as one reason against AI. Power consumption is also a valid reason against using gentoo. People are able, and indeed should be aware of potential problems and downside of things, even if they are involved in other things which also has those issues. I am sure most of the gentoo team would readily acknowledge that energy consumption is a downside of gentoo compared to other distros.