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It feels like I mine bitcoins for our Great Daddy Gaben every other update, setting my CPU at 100% for a long time.

I know it makes difference (to skipping it and eating lags), it works, but how it doesn't use previous literal gigabytes of generated shaders, starting from 0% every time? Why it takes so much time?

I feel like I'm a dumbass and I miss something obvious. Or I just feel like I'm alone with it? Do you guys all deal with it?

Am sitting at 66% percents, my PC heats like it renders video in Premiere, just to let me play the game I've played yesterday again. Guess all my recycling and replanting routine can fuck right off with that power consumption. Sorry, nature, I tried.

But anyway if you are tired of it or knows some tricks, write what's on your mind.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's me venting. And providing a place for venting and advices. Things people do sometimes.

While you are sounding like some chatgpt. You do a paragraph on me mentioning bitcoin with obvious sarcasm. And it's all messed up.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their comments reads nothing at all like ChatGPT to me, and I'm stuggling to see why you said that.

What is the supposed sarcasm regarding bitcoin mining? Not sure what point is being made with that.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like I mine bitcoins for our Great Daddy Gaben every other update, setting my CPU at 100% for a long time.

That wasn't serious. Can we call it a metaphor or an epithet? This person wrote a dedicated paragraph about that, thinking I suspect Valve in mining bitcoins. I didn't think they are a bot, but they seemed to lose the tone of my text completely, once they got to 'bitcoin' word. It felt bot-ish because chatbots do dance around a few words sometimes.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop responding as if you've been asked "why do you think they are a bot" or "why do you think it's bitcoin mining". You were only asked why you said that. I know it's not your actual idea.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was asked why they sounded like a bot to me, no? I made no point writing that.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You weren't asked why you thought they were a bot. As I said, none of us seriously believed you thought they were a bot. We asked what the point being made by that joke was.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

If your joke has no point, then it's just a statement.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment was out of place and didn't make sense. That's why I brought it up. Couldn't tell if you thought your local machine was actually coin mining or whatever. Just an out of place comment where you should have asked the straightforward question of "What are shaders and why...?".

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are a real person AND you felt like my starting little half-joke about bitcoin (ignoring everything else in my post) is worth you writing half of your previous answer, a whole paragraph about it? Like what? Seriously?

I'm still not convinced if you aren't a robot. You do behave as such. Just like ones on stackoverflow I've seen today.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, cause those GPT bots are out there monitoring your very special comments on Lemmy specifically. Y'know because they matter...

If you thought that was a joke, I have some material you should watch.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, cause those GPT bots are out there monitoring your very special comments on Lemmy specifically. Y'know because they matter...

Bots on there or reddit answer anything with a YT link, or just anything. There were subs where bots were talking to each other in circles, a lot of them were noticed carmafarming. I doubt no one of techie locals tried to build a good person-like bot there. This project is too obvious of an idea.

I don't feel special. I feel screwed that some human-adjacent bot answers me bs and makes no sense. I feel like I'm trapped in a void, and I can't reach other people.

If you thought that was a joke, I have some material you should watch.

I don't know what invited that suggestion. But drop them. I have time.

I'd take my words back, if they would be related to what I've said.