It is Jellyfins fault and there is an easier way, the Jellyfin team just hasn’t prioritized it.

It’s not directed towards people who are experts. I’m an expert and can’t secure Jellyfin properly because Jellyfin doesn’t support proper secure authentication.

The internet isn’t taking your drinking water

You’re projecting. In this conversation you have so far:

• Tried to unitize a gerund without adding a measure word
• Mistaken phrases for words
• Confused adjectives and nouns
• Ignored the validity of mass nouns as a whole

I don’t think you have even a conceptual understand of Grammar, and I suspect you only know English as a second language

No, it didn’t, that’s why compute is used now. Compute is a mass noun, shortened from Computation, also a mass noun and it’s a perfectly reasonable and accurate word. Also compute is not an adjective in any context, you’re thinking of a verb.

All words are made up.

It’s an accurate and useful word for describing something that previously did not have a word. Pretty simple stuff.

Energy use is the not the thing being sold, and never was.

It’s an engineering term that engineers use to easily and efficiently describe the thing being built and sold. It’s not for the benefit of investors, it’s for the benefit of other engineers so they can easily describe the thing being talked about.

Datacenters? Yes, to an extent. They enable things like the modern internet, public goods like Wikipedia, etc.

AI datacenters? No.

Kobo won’t lock you in. You can sideload any books you want, install Koreader and download books straight from Calibre using OPDS without even needed to jailbreak anything.

If that were the case then why are we currently talking about these insane price hikes when RAM was more expensive than it is now 20 years ago? That could only have happened if prices went down.

Sounds like a personal problem

It’s absolutely in the dictionary, it’s perfectly plain and inoffensive, and it sounds perfectly descriptive of what it is.

You can’t use the word “computing”, it’s a gerund that represents an ongoing activity, it can’t be unitized into finite units. “Processing power” is not a noun, it’s a phrase.

Compute is not a boardroom term, it’s an engineering term. It’s used by professionals because it’s efficient, practical, and makes the most sense linguistically in the context it’s used. It may be inelegant, but it’s a function term for an ugly, unnatural thing, it’s not supposed to sound pretty.

Ok.

Which noun would you prefer for the overarching generalized concept of computation sold as a product?

Traditional datacenters usually came in one of two general forms, Colocation datacenters where anyone can rent rack space in the building, and your hyperscaler datacenters like AWS and Azure.

Colocation Datacenters are usually only partially full of servers at any given time, and are often rented by private enterprises running small time web applications or even just internal tools.

The hyperscalers are worse, but the business model is overbuilding capacity but not all the compute is actually being used at any given time. Workloads are variable usually.

It’s not that these datacenters can’t be loud, but rather that due to their lower power usage (compared to AI or Crypto before that) they don’t usually have to be.

The problem with AI datacenters is that they are designed to maximize their capacity and run full throttle 24/7 365. These facilities are bigger, are completely full to the brim with servers, and those servers are all working very hard nonstop. The thing about computers is, the stronger they are and the harder you push them, the more power they require to run. When electronic devices of any kind use more power, they generate more heat. Too much heat will also kill these electronic devices, so they need more cooling. Cooling apparatus makes noise, and the more you have of it, the louder it gets.

The TL;DR of it all is that AI datacenters are designed to maximize their compute capacity, which maximizes their power consumption, which maximizes the heat they generate, so you maximize the cooling, which maximizes the noise.

There’s a separate issue back the the “Consumes more power” step where some datacenters can’t be sated by the local power infrastructure so they have to find ways to supplement the power they get from the grid with additional noisy things like gas generators and such.

Yes I’m sure. I’ve worked in a number of standard compute and colo datacenters for years and I haven’t experienced anything like that even in the parking lot of said datacenters. I’ve taken breaks to quietly read in the lobbies of said buildings.

Regular non-ai datacenters don’t have all this noise

Sony eventually disabled the OtherOS feature to combat people buying them en masse and costing Sony their lunch

By people I assume you’re talking about the U.S. Navy lmao

I mean the compassionate use thing on its own is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a way to provide patients who are terminally ill with no other options the chance to try a drug that hasn’t been approved.

This use case in the other hand is bizarre and abnormal

Yes they laid these folks off for the express purpose of funding more datacenter buildouts because they were not funding banks willing to to loan them the capital.