I wont be shocked it if turns out Meta has been using users Meta apps on their phones to pull this off.
Like a giant bot net, just pull small amount of data, send home. Not enough for anyone to notice, but large enough user base to sum all the small segments together and download without Meta directly seeding anything back.
Or just rented for a bunch of seedboxes anonymously
This doesn't account for the server they are hosted in, their CPU loads, losses in the PSU, which will inflate those numbers higher.
Then there is the cooling, which needs to remove every watt consumed by the GPU/servers, as its all outputs as heat (multiplied by the PSU losses).
Things are amplified further by the inefficiencies of the cooling process, including cooling the HVAC hot side (and the water consumption of the cooling towers), and building insulation.
Then the article only accounts for Midjourney, which is only one of the operators in this space. All the major tech companies have huge fleets of server working on this.
I'm not sure how a knife and a cutting board take up a load of space in a home kitchen
I'd argue that the quality of a fry/chip does depend on the type of potatoes used. My experience is frozen fries are mediocre at best.
Even on a commercial scale, its a peeling machine and a cutting/chipping machine, no worse than a mixing machine for making dough or similar industrial kitchen machines.
I think the issue on a commercial scale is the sheer volume of fries you need to make and store continuously versus the benefit to the end result over frozen.
I've been enjoying the videos of 'Look Mum No Computer', building his own 60's based, electromechanical telephone exchange, is his Museum of everything else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1lH8pjXTo
His second channel has some more dedicated content on telephone systems, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKnS0AB2CTN_eu8k8rgaO...
He has spent a fair amount of time building it out, from initially receiving his first exchanging and getting it to work, and adding more to it
It fun just to watch how the system selects lines and routes around the exchange. Other interesting things, like how the dial and engaged tones are generated, and how prerecorded messages are played back to a number that is no longer in service, something like, 'This number no longer exists, please try again'
Isn't this how most IPO ends up going.
Make self look good to shareholders by using the community to uplift the product.
Then, set up walled gardens to begin extrapolating funds from the community, as shareholders want more cash flow, damaging the contribution rate/trust of the community.
Finally, all out enshittification, its profits above all else, as the remaining contributing community have now bailed to a new, less draconian, platform. Now the Pi foundation needs to turn the screws on anyone that relies on the product in productive environments, to maintain the year on year financial growth.
This is a very cynical take on future events, but I wont be surprised if it goes this way, as was there actually a need to IPO?
We already had a massive shift away from hobbyists to industrial/commercial clients, before the IPO, so I don't see it getting better for hobbyist/enthusiasts. Costs will increase more, as they will see how their industrial clients make money from using a Pi in manufacturing process, and so the shareholders will want more of that slice from their clients.
Steenbras is the only plant installed and maintained by City of Capetown, the rest are Eskom facilities
(Its mentioned occasionally, by eskom, that load shedding continues over a weekend, or late evenings, to restore pumped storage for the week/productive hours)
I like using the VMware Horizon OS Optimization Tool.
Its quite powerful at removing bloat and unneeded features for running windows smoothly in a VM, with granular control.
Installing windows in Audit mode was also a useful discovery, that this tool recommended doing for a fresh install.
Its amazing how the old Windows OS's managed to improve with out telemetry and analytics.
Now we have that, the OS is in a downward spiral of how much one can harvest from the user and other dark patterns to prevent the user from having control over it. While the desktop experience has worsened.
Or just rented for a bunch of seedboxes anonymously