Maybe everyone should slow the fuck down - https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing...

The cognitive surrender study from UPenn highlights the risks of agents producing all of the code - eventually you give up verifying the result. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

There’s going to be a bottleneck on what is verified because over time we will realize how much tail risk we are creating by simply surrendering our own agency to the agents - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6298838

You could use a remote streaming protocol, like Parsec, for that. You'd need your own cloud account and connect directly to a GPU-enabled cloud machine. Otherwise, it would work to let you game.

Do you have an easy way to see the cost differential between this and public cloud alternatives?

Only BERT (running on CPU only instances) and Stable Diffusion (on RTX3090) for now :) https://salad.com/salad-cloud/generative-ai

Hey. Use constant FPS mode. That’ll clear up the text :)

Really happy to hear you and your son are getting a lot of value from Parsec's streaming tech. Let me know if you have any suggestions/ideas to improve the product. Thanks!

Nice to see someone from Parsec here! USB forwarding like VirtualHere would be nice, so that I don’t have to fiddle with that every time I start the instance.

IIRC I tried the Parsec AMI but it was difficult to use and required a lot of fiddling. I can’t remember the details unfortunately, but I would have preferred to just use that instead of Paperspace (this might be a niche use case since I’m an engineer). If I could have figured that out, I would have written a CLI around it and open sourced it for others to use.

Also because I’m an engineer, I really wanted to read the source code to see how it worked. But I get that it’s your magic sauce :).

Thanks for the awesome tech!

I just set it up last night. Great stuff, but fix your manual.

Concretely, update the “solutions for cloud rented pc’s” section at this link: https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002601...

(Which the client points at)

On paperspace, you need to set up a paid public IP, or deal with higher latency. Now I know what ZeroTier is, but my network latency was 100ms under load vs 30 with the public IP...

It took me four hours to debug this. Also, why does the server send every other UDP packet to a mysterious port on startup? (According to tcpdump on my router)

Also, in the question about broken mouse cursors, the correct answer is to close the paperspace web tab displaying the desktop of the instance.

Cheers!

Thanks. We definitely fall behind once in awhile on the support articles. Fixing it now.

Overall, your documentation is excellent; otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered nit picking it.

I’ll definitely recommend parsec to friends. I got rid of my last windows box a while back, but I have a few windows-only steam titles that I’d like to play.

Moving forward, my gaming desktop is something like a 25% of the household electricity budget. I hate wasting all that power, so I really want to replace it with a thin client.

One other thing: Your onboarding flow at the paperspace blog still points to parsec.tv. It made me wonder if you went out of business until I found the new download links.

https://blog.paperspace.com/setting-up-your-cloud-gaming-rig...

Thanks for sharing Parsec!

We have a Linux client on Parsec (https://parsecgaming.com/downloads). You can install Parsec on any gaming machine (PC or VM) and use our game streaming software to play from your Linux machine

Thanks for sharing Parsec! I'm the co-founder. It's really great that the script is helpful.

I really love the product, it's super fast and dead-easy to use. Have you folx thought more about Android TV, I'd love to get it working on Shield in a way that's usable (right now you get to a Windows login screen and you're stuck b/c you only have a controller)

Thanks :). Really appreciate your support.