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- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 6 minutes ago:
SonoBus for voice chat.
It’s peer to peer, just works on everything, sound better than Discord and most importantly, is 100X less annoying because latency is so low.
I think it was designed for remote music collaboration, hence it feels like you’re talking to your friend in the room. No awkward interruption of pauses from the audio delay.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 21 hours ago:
That’s what gets upvotes on Lemmy, sadly.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 21 hours ago:
FYI you can buy this this: frame.work/…/framework-desktop-mainboard-amd-ryze…
And stick a regular Nvidia GPU on it. Or an AMD one.
That’d give you the option to batch renders across the integrated and discrete GPUs too, if that fits your workflow.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 22 hours ago:
As a hobby mostly, but its useful for work.
Reading my own quote, I was being a bit dramatic. But at the very least it is super important to grasp some basic concepts (like MoE offloading and quantization), and watch for new releasing in LocalLlama or whatever. You kinda do have to follow things, yes.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 22 hours ago:
I dunno. Whatever the default was, so perhaps not?
But whatever Ublock Lite’s default is is probably what 99% of folks are using.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 1 day ago:
Chinese electric cars were always going to take off. RAM is just a commodity; if you sell the most bits at the lowest price and sufficient speed, it works.
If you’re in edge machine learning, if you write your own stacks, Chinese hardware will be killer.
But if you’re trying to run Steam games? Or CUDA projects? That’s a whole different story. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, they’re always going to be handicapped by software in “legacy” code. Not just for performance, but driver bugs/quirks.
Proton emulation (and focusing everything on a good Vulkan driver) is not a bad path forward, but still.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 1 day ago:
Also, this has been the case (or at least planned) for a while.
Pascal (the GTX 1000 series) and Ampere (the RTX 3000 series) used the exact same architecture for datacenter/gaming. The big gaming dies were dual use and datacenter-optimized. This habit goes all the way back to ~2008, but Ampere and the A100 are really where datacenter came first.
AMD announced a plan to unify their datacenter/gaming architecture awhile ago.
Intel wanted to do this, but had some roadmap trouble.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 days ago:
I did find this calculator the other day
That calculator is total nonsense. Don’t trust anything like that; at best, its obsolete the week after its posted.
I’d be hesitant to buy something just for AI that doesn’t also have RTX cores because I do a lot of Blender rendering. RDNA 5 is supposed to have more competitive RTX cores
Yeah, that’s a huge caveat. AMD Blender might be better than you think though, and you can use your RTX 4060 on a Strix Halo motherboard just fine.
along with NPU cores, so I guess my ideal would be a SoC with a ton of RAM
So far, NPUs have been useless. Don’t buy any of that marketing.
I’m also not sure under 10 tokens per second will be usable, though I’ve never really tried it.
That’s still 5 words/second. That’s not a bad reading speed.
Whether its enough. GLM 350B without thinking is smarter than most models with thinking, so I end up with better answers faster.
But anyway, I’m looking at more like 20-30 tokens a second into models that aren’t squeezed into my rig within an inch of their life. If you buy an HEDT/Server CPU with more RAM channels, it’s even faster.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 days ago:
I mean, I’d kill for a Chinese GPU. But lock-in for your Steam back catalog is strong.
Also, have you been watching all the Chinese GPU announcements? They’re all in on machine learning ASICs too.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 days ago:
This is not true. I have a single 3090 + 128GB CPU RAM (which wasn’t so expensive that long ago), and I can run GLM 4.6 350B at 6 tokens/sec. I can run sparser models like Stepfun 3.5, GLM Air or Minimax 2.1 much faster, and these are all better than the cheapest API models.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 days ago:
On the contrary, I find my eyes slide right off ads. Why should I care about something I’m not looking for, that’s just going to make whatever they’re advertising more expensive to buy.
Maybe that’s the au side of AuADHD taking over, though.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 days ago:
Is it?
I used Chrome with “Ublock lite” in someone else’s computer for a bit, and was shocked by how many ads got through, not to speak of annoyances and what I suspect was a malware link.
- Comment on Orion Browser 5 days ago:
I think they meant background transcoding while using the browser.
- Comment on Orion Browser 5 days ago:
Full Ublock is a mixed bag on mobile because it eats tons of power, and (if you add more sources), Orion’s blocker is just about the same anyway.
- Comment on Orion Browser 5 days ago:
Oh heck yeah. I’ve been using it on iOS a ton, and dying for this on Windows/Linux.
Fun trivia: what browser supports HEIFs, JPEG XL XL, AVIF, AV1, all with correctly rendered HDR?
Not Chrome. And not Firefox, nor anything based on them.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 6 days ago:
I like Windows 11. But only as a thoroughly neutered “secondary” OS to dual boot with Linux.
If I had to use it as my only OS, I’d pull my hair out. Same with desktop Linux TBH. There’s stuff that’s just painful in both ecosystems.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 6 days ago:
Apple’s media support is incredible.
I have one platform where HDR photos/video playback and editing, JpegXL, HEIFs from my camera, and such all just work. And it’s definitely not my KDE desktop.
- Comment on We need to get to the bottom of this 6 days ago:
Puuuuurge
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 6 days ago:
Yeah, probably. I actually have no idea what they charge.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 6 days ago:
This doesn’t make any sense, especially the 2x 3090 example. I’ve run my 3090 at PCIe 3.0 over a riser, and there’s only one niche app where it ever made any difference. I’ve seen plenty of benches show PCIe 4.0 is just fine for a 5090:
gamersnexus.net/…/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-v…
Storage is, to my knowledge, always on a separate bus than graphics, so that also doesn’t make any sense.
My literally ancient TX750 still worked fine with my 3090, though it was moved.
And if you are buying a 5090… a newer CPU platform is like a drop in the bucket.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
That’s a huge generalization, and it depends what you use your system for. Some people might be on old threadripper workstations that works fine, for instance, and slaps in a second GPU. Or maybe someone needs more cores for work; they can just swap their CPU out. Maybe your 4K gaming system can make do with an older CPU.
I upgraded RAM and storage just before the RAMpocalypse, and that’s not possible on many laptops. And I can stuff a whole bunch of SSDs into the body and use them all at once.
…That being said, there’s a lot of trends going against people, especially for gaming:
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There’s “initial build FOMO” where buyers max out their platform at the start, even if that’s financially unwise and they miss out on sales/deals.
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We just went from DDR4 to DDR5, on top of some questionable segmentation from AMD/Intel. So yeah, sockets aren’t the longest lived.
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Time gaps between generations are growing as silicon gets more expensive to design.
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…Buyers are collectively stupid and bandwagon. See: the crazy low end Nvidia GPU sales when they have every reason to buy AMD/Intel/used Nvidia instead. So they are rewarding bad behavior from companies.
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Individual parts are more repairable. If my 3090 dies, for instance, I can send it to a repairperson and have a good chance of saving it.
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You can still keep your PSU, case, CPU heating, storage and such. It’s a drop in the bucket cost-wise, but it’s not nothing.
IMO things would be a lot better if GPUs were socketable, with LPCAMM on a motherboard.
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- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’d be great. Peltiers would be awesome and everywhere if they were dirt cheap.
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 1 week ago:
So what malware got shipped?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Awesome, thanks for the info and source.
Yeah, most of my frustration came from JXL/AVIF/HEIF and how linux/Windows browsers, KDE, and Windows 11 don’t seem to support them well. Not a fan of packing HDR into 8-bits with WebP/JPG, especially with their artifacts, though I haven’t messed with PNG yet.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Also, we haven’t even got HDR figured out.
I’m still struggling to export some of my older RAWs to HDR. Heck, Lemmy doesn’t support JPEG XL, AVIF, TIFF, HEIF, nothing, so I couldn’t even post them here anyway.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
8K is theoretically good as “spare resolution,” for instance running variable resolution in games and scaling everything to it, displaying photos with less scaling for better sharpness, clearer text rendering, less flickering, stuff like that.
It’s not worth paying for. Mostly. But maybe some day it will be cheap enough to just “include” with little extra cost,” kinda like how 4K TVs or 1440p monitors are cheap now.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 week ago:
Who fucking cares?
Credit card companies.
And their ad buyers, maybe.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 1 week ago:
Depends how much you have to pay attention.
First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.
But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.
One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.
Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.
Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on.
Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 1 week ago:
Yeah I was being casual, and I’m not an expert by any means.
I bring it up because, for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately. It’s easier on my knees, with no risk of shin splints and less risk of injury than heavy weights.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 1 week ago:
You know what I mean. It’s an indicator exerting yourself. Your blood vessels dilate when you’re hot to try and dump the heat, just like they constrict in parts when cold to save it.
