For the case of local models, no not at all. Most local models are under a free license (or at least a non-commericial one) and it all runs locally on your hardware, however what you can run and how well depends on your hardware and some software fiddling. Non-local stuff if 100% a ploy to make everyone dependent on big tech even more than they already are, though

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen!?

Nope, scrabbling. The film will be written using whatever words the writers use in their scrabble game

GITS, clever

Glad to see they’re officially supporting linux as an option. Looks like my kind of FPS, especially love the part of the trailer where they explicitly say they AREN’T a battle royale XD.

Is this what they call a midwest goodbye 😭

The first step of any linux install is installing vim/neovim. Anything else is sheer apostasy

Have you tried downloading more RAM?

Well, its possible the motors weren’t at 100% at all times, but I’d imagine that at that maths its still 1-2 cents per kWh, which still seems quite off.