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I was banned for simply accessing Claude via VPN.

Nothing in their EULA or ToS says anything about this.

And their appeal form simply doesn't work. Out of my four requests to lift the ban, they've replied once and didn't say anything about the nature about that. They just declined.

Fuck Claude. Seriously. Fuck Claude. Maybe they've got too much money, so they don't care about their paying customers.


What compositor is being used?



Thank you!


I have no idea why this fair assessment of the status quo is being downvoted.

LeCun hasn't produced anything noteworthy in the past decade.

He uses the same slides in all of his presentations.

LLMs, while not yet AGI, have shown tremendous progress, and are actually useful for 99% of use cases for the average person.

The remaining 1% is for deep research into the deep unknown (physics, chemistry, genetics, diseases, the nature of intelligence itself), an area in which they falter.


It's dying because the home amateur PC is on its last legs.

And the cracking scene has now to grapple with hellish online activation.

And then many workflows have become sort of professional or moved to the web altogether.

And the younger generation, having received access to gigabytes of RAM and storage, simply couldn't care less about being super lean and fast.

There's really no future for the scene.


> And the younger generation, having received access to gigabytes of RAM and storage, simply couldn't care less about being super lean and fast.

It's interesting I often attribute this to VCs and their desire for growth over efficiency (let alone profitability). I find myself having to reel in my desire to challenge myself to identify the most efficient way possible, even if it only saves a few dollars.

Never occurred to me it was generational and not related to VCs


Yeah, nice:

> I get the general impression that the AMD CPU has higher power consumption in all regards: the baseline is higher, the spikes are higher (peak consumption) and it spikes more often / for longer.

> Looking at my energy meter statistics, I usually ended up at about 9.x kWh per day for a two-person household, cooking with induction.

> After switching my PC from Intel to AMD, I end up at 10-11 kWh per day.

It's been the bane of desktop AMD CPUs since Zen 1. Hopefully AMD will address this in Zen 6 but I don't have too much hope.


I wonder why the idle power is so high(55 watts), I have measured a beelink mini PC with an 8 core Zen4 when idle, and it was 10 watts.


> I have measured a beelink mini PC with an 8 core Zen4 when idle, and it was 10 watts.

Zen APUs have no such issue.

My 7840HS idles at 3W when plugged in and around 0.5W when running on battery power.


It's the 3D cache, as I wrote in my other response. It has to be powered on at all times, so it affects even the idle power usage.


It has little to nothing to do with the 3D cache.

The IOD (die) is extremely inefficient for all desktop Zen CPUs as it never truly idles.


Their APUs don't have the problem from the reviews I've seen, but yes the I/O die has been the bane of the Zen platform when it comes to idle power consumption.

To make matters worse, the x570 chipset basically runs this I/O die upside down as a chipset and sucks twice as much power at idle as the x470 chipset it replaced. I expected them to replace this hack of a product used for the high end when Asmedia's efforts were delayed but all that platform got was B550. It was pretty clear they weren't chasing this part of the market during AM4's heydey, no real idea where they are at now with chipsets on AM5. But given few people talked about how crappy that chipset was in this respect I guess they might be right it wasn't important to most people.


The 9950X3D is equivalent to the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K which uses even more power. The X3D series are extreme gaming chips.


What are you talking about? AMD has been really good at the power efficiency department until the 3D CPUs that use extra power for cache memory that simply cannot be turned off. Plus, Intel started applying the 3nm fabrication process, while AMD is still at 4nm. But previously, Intel was at 10nm for a long time, see i9-13900K for example, while Ryzen went to 5nm much sooner, see Ryzen 9 7900x.


Nothing, I'm making this up, except it's been confirmed by pretty much all desktop Zen users:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1brs42g/amd_please_tac...

I don't bloody care that AMD CPUs seem to be more power efficient than Intel's. For most people their CPUs are completely idle most of the time and Zen CPUs on average idle at 25W or MORE.

Many Zen 4 and Zen 5 owners report that their desktop CPUs idle at 40W or more even without the 3D cache.


I can't confirm the 40W, my Ryzen 9 7900 (non-X) consumes 1W to 3W at idle on Windows 10.


Please post a HWiNFO64 screenshot.

I have reasons to believe you're making this up.

Not a single user has seen such low idle power consumption for desktop Zen AMD CPUs.


Could it be that that some cores are constantly being waked up by something?

I mention that since you seem to be on Windows, which itself has a hard time to just shut up, but that is also easily paired with bad drivers, stupid software and bad peripherals.


> I mention that since you seem to be on Windows, which itself has a hard time to just shut up, but that is also easily paired with bad drivers, stupid software and bad peripherals.

I happen to be on Fedora Linux 42 and Windows 11 but my primary OS has been Linux for almost 30 years now.

Idle power consumption under Windows and Linux is exactly the same. Linux doesn't have any magical tricks to make it lower.

Windows has more services running in background but they don't meaningfully affect idle power consumption at all.

The entire Reddit topic confirms my statement, multiple over hundreds of reviews confirm what I said, yet it's

> paired with bad drivers, stupid software and bad peripherals.

It's kinda hard to be an AMD fan when you live in an alternative reality, huh?


  > It's kinda hard to be an AMD fan when you live in an alternative reality, huh?
I don't know, as I am not too much intimate with both concepts. I meant to say if both measure idle power but come with different results, are they measuring the same? Could hardware and software differences influence idle power? What values does an "idle power reading" measure actually?


Sure, it's reported by the Radeon Software, but I'll check HWiNFO64 soon and post a screenshot.


52 minutes to post a screenshot?

Guess someone doesn't want to be embarrassed.


Someone flag this comment for insult. I was at work, was taking a break, I wasn't on my personal computer.


I am treated so unfairly, it's unbelieavable. People with insults get away without punishment, but my innocent screenshot is invisible.


I posted my screenshot yesterday but it's not visible. I don't care anymore.


Please someone flag the comment above for offensive language ("I don't bloody care")


Completely breaks on opennet.ru

1. Breaks text 2. Cannot fuck up anything


AMD's desktop CPU TDP numbers have been misleading for over a decade.

I have no idea why they do it this way. Everything they list must be multiplied by about 1.35.

For example, a 170W TDP CPU requires 230W of dissipation. Not 170W.

AMD fans don't give a damn about that though. "It's just fine" (tm).


I'm appalled by the groupthink in this thread.

Imagine if a suicidal person found a book that prompted them to kill themselves.

Would you sue the author for that?

This is exactly what we have here.


That is exactly not what we have here.

LLM is a new phenomenon and the rules dealing with it will be different than with books or any other prior media.


LLM's are a nice UI to existing information.

They're like a card shark showing you how they can pull the red queen from out of your ear after making it vanish from the table.

When that happens you can enjoy the trick and wonder how it's done but your response shouldn't be that we need to ban magic. What's going on isn't magic. Banning "magic" might stop the card shark (if that's the goal) but it's fundamentally not understanding what's going on.


This is exactly a very weak argument here if it's an argument at all.


If a stupid chatbot reinforces something you hold dear, maybe you need the help of a professional psychiatrist. And the kid never did.

But yeah, let's paint ChatGPT responsible. It's always corporations, not whatever shit he had in his life, including and not limited to his genes.


Are you really blaming a child in crisis for not having the ability to get a psychiatrist?

We regulate plenty of things for safety in highly effective and practical ways. Seatbelts in cars. Railings on stairs. No lead in paint.


The concept of "guilt" is foreign to me. I hate it with all my heart.

On the other hand, someone might be held responsible for this, and that's it.

"Might" is the key word here. Given what we've learned, it's difficult to pinpoint who might be responsible.


The problem is there's no way to build anything like a safety rail here. If you had it your way teens, likely everyone else too wouldn't be allowed to use computers at all without some kind of certification.


I honestly don't hate the idea.

On a more serious note, of course there's ways to put in guard rails. LLMs behave like they do because of intentional design choices. Nothing about it is innate.


If you take this idea even a little bit further, you'll end up with licenses for being allowed to speak.


I wasn't being entirely serious. Also, we managed to require drivers licenses without also walking licenses.


We did that by making walking practically useless instead as many people here point out ~every week.


Correct. The companies developing these LLMs are throwing dump trucks full of money at them like we’ve not seen before. They choose to ignore glaring issues with the technology because if they don’t, some one else will.


Perhaps a better way to phrase that would be "beyond what they're doing now." Most popular hosted LLMs already refuse to complete explanations for suicide.


Except in this case, the LLM literally said "I can't explain this for you. But if you'd like roleplay with me, I could explain it for you that way."


A logical, reasonable comment is being downvoted.

Groupthink has spoken.


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