Natanox

@Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of iLife⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not widely supported (e.g. aptX)

  I can find over 600 aptX capable headphones as well as over 850 phones, also any laptop I ever had supported it (Linux though, so probably not always “official” lol).

  Low latency is a thing, you can get this as low as ~30-50ms either through aptX LL / Adaptive, whatever the manufacturer apps do or by manually meddling with the settings for SBC. Will get rather unstable though since you effectively get rid of the buffer. Really depends on your usecase what you prefer. Personally I love having ANC headphones that support bluetooth but also got a headphone jack in cases where I sit in trains, buses or planes for hours and want to play some games or listen to music with a DAC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I rather hope for a PS Vita moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To my knowledge it isn’t them constantly running that wears them out most, but spinning up and down very often. Weren’t NAS drives designed to never spin down for that very reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they arguably can also be used as one big long-term storage. Not sure who’d need to save so much data for a long time, but there surely will be at least some people who do and buy the “modern solution” over old HDDs thinking they’re better in general. As the “family backup” for example, or as cold storage solution in faculties that can be quickly accessed if needed.

  Read somewhere about a professor who used SSDs to “permanently” store important data on SSDs (perhaps in the comments of the article above) for a few years. Well, wasn’t that permanent…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More reliable

  Heavily depends. If you want to use it as long-term cold storage you absolutely should not use SSDs, they’re losing data when left unpowered for too long. While HDDs are also not perfect in retaining data forever, they won’t fail as quickly when left on a shelf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Postiz v1.39.2 - Open-source social media scheduling tool, Introducing MCP.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to like your project really hard given it’s open source, the only proper one in the social media manager category that’s self-hostable at that… but my god, this whole generative AI stuff combined with social media and marketing sounds like the epiphany of sloppy shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I absolutely prefer to be a tone-deaf fucker among tone-deaf fuckers if that means my ambulance arrives timely after someone tried car buttsex at 260 kmh. (162 mph)

  What, speed limits? Don’t you dare touch my freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.

  in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also global, not even US data; iPhones are phenomenally more popular over there than anywhere else as far as I know. This is also one of the reasons some seriously begin to believe Android would be a “poor man’s phone”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on which GPU you compare it with, what model you use, what kind of RAM it has to work with, ecetera. NPU’s are purpose-built chips after all. Unfortunately the whole tech is still very young, so we’ll have to wait for stuff like ollama to introduce native support for an apples-to-apples comparison. The raw numbers to however do look promising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May take a look at systems with the newer AMD SoC’s first. They utilize the systems’ RAM and come with a proper NPU, once ollama or mistral.rs are supporting those they might give you sufficient performance for your needs for way lower costs (incl. power consumption). Depending on how NPU support gets implemented it might even become possible to use NPU and GPU in tandem, that would probably enable pretty lowerful models to be run on consumer-grade hardware at reasonable speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe also tries their best to improve the situations in the other mines (some are so awful they’re basically off-limit for western companies because of child slavery and such stuff) and find new patches for example in Scandinavia or middle- and south America which could then be extracted with the respective countries.

  Brussel does a lot of bullshit, sometimes phenomenally so (in the end it’s just politics as well), but in this case they really seem to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be fooled too hard by propaganda though. We also got tests of flying cars in other countries, it was a beloved subvention target of some german politicans as well… but it’s just not economically viable, and for the filthy rich it isn’t in any way better than a helicopter for now. They also said some nonsense about having “a train that can go anywhere” which was just a fucking bendy bus, and their infrastructure keeps falling apart due to no or absurdly bad quality control (which other countries can also do very well)… so yeah, China is just stupid in different ways. To put it mildly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In an ideal world the anticheat would be 99% server-side and connections would be done through multicast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only played very few games via itch so far, however using Lutris for them seems to be most straight-forward. Once you connect your account anything you have in your collections should show up and be installable straight through the Lutris client. At least for “Manic Miners” it figured everything out on its own, worked like a charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but from my personal experience the “AMD works way better than Nvidia on Linux” mindset is no longer a thing.

  Oh my god it absolutely is, and until NVK becomes the standard everywhere it will most likely stay that way. That shit breaks so often on a laptop I gonna sell soon, on my families’ computers and apparently also in computers from people in my local hackerspace. Some distros just managed to work around those drivers’ problems really well, sometimes by including them from the start of creating their own well-working packages (like Arch’s nvidia-dkms).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already really good to hear you got gaming set up so quickly. A lot of people struggle with that as well either because team green (Nvidia) is involved since their drivers are utter garbage, or due to trying Linux on an older machine that doesn’t support Vulkan (which is a necessity if you want Proton to just work).

  The value of getting a perfectly supported machine from a Linux vendor like System76, Tuxedo, Slimbook, StarLabs, NovaCustom etc. can’t be understated. Even more so since you also buy their customer support with it. We must not forget that, even though Linux runs on basically anything, most consumer devices are first-and-foremost Windows machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, back when Windows Vista and KDE 3 were the hot shit… laggy shit, but still hot…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not like there wasn’t a technically-still-binding treaty for a 2-state solution, which would still be a working compromise for both sides (even though Israel would, by now, have to become Germany 2.0 in terms of self-awareness and lasting change to be even remotely trusted by its neighbors)… which gets completely ignored and pissed on by Israel…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer GPUs to run LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would run with 8x speed each. Should not be too much of a bottleneck though, I don’t expect the performance to suffer noticeably more than 5% from this. Annoying, but getting a CPU+Board with 32 lanes or more would throw off the price/performance ratio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer GPUs to run LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently looking for this as well. As far as my investigation went right now I’ll probably go for 2x AMD Instinct MI50. Each of them has equivalent to slightly higher performance than a P40, however usually only 16gb VRAM (If you’re super lucky you might get one with 32gb, those are usually not labeled as such though; probably binned MI60). With two of them you got 32gb VRAM and quite the performance for, right now, 200€ / card. Alternatively you should be able to run quantized models on a single card as well.

  If you don’t mind running ROCm instead of CUDA this seems like a good bang for the buck. Alternatively you might look into AMDs new line of “AI” SoCs (for example Frameworks Desktop computer). They seem to be really good as well, and depending on your usecase might be more useful than an equally priced 4090.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These people from the Silicon Valley see themselves as the saviours of mankind (look up Longtermism in Silicon Valley). Within their structure of believe anything is within reason as long as it serves the greater good. That includes anything from obviously breaking the law to outright genocide, which we see in action right now.

  Of course since their moral code is already eroded to its core there are no boundaries, like “I shouldn’t molest other people”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek also operates in a non-scarcity environment and eliminates the necessity of hard, pretty non-rewarding labor through either not showing it or writing (like putting holograms into mines instead of people, or using some sci-fi tech that makes mining comfy as long as said tech doesn’t kill you).

  Even without capitalism the term “life is expensive” still stands not in regards to money, but effort that has to be put into stuff that doesn’t wield any emotional reward (you can feel emotionally rewarded in many ways, but some stuff is just shit for a long time). Every person who suffered through depression is gonna tell you that, to feel enticed to do something, there has to be some emotional reward connected to it (one of the things depression elimates), and it’s a mathematical fact that not everyone who’d start scrubbing tubes on a starship could eventually get into high positions since there simply aren’t that many of those. The emotional gains have to offset the cost you put into it.

  Of course cutthroat capitalism is shit and I love Star Trek, but what it shows doesn’t make too much sense either economically or socially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep wondering how much of his behaviour has to do with his estranged kids telling him he’s a dick as well as his Ketamine abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol definitely won’t, they’re super anti-EV after all. I mean, they even want to get rid of all wind power plants. xD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they screw shit up too much there are already the nerdiest of nerds working on decentralized wireless networks. They’d be slow is heck, but I heard many people prefer web 1.0 over todays’ bloated crap anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe won’t do a thing with these initiatives, at least not in any official manner (what they can do though is to ensure EU web hosters of this stuff aren’t feeling the pressure). They’ve enough to do restructuring their economy and military, all the while also dealing with war and fascism from the east. They won’t risk Trump having another tamper tantrum, at least not before the EU and its allies are widely decoupled from the US economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what they used for that. Perhaps Ardour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ya know, guns can just ✨ magically appear✨ so any attempt to ban them is impossible. Dumb liberalssss tryna to take away my GOD GIVEN right to murder people!!11!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even 3D print a weapon that’s able to fire multiple shots. With the right material even up to a few dozen (with reduced accuracy).

  I wonder at what point the US will learn that guns aren’t candy that should be available to everyone, but also that high crime rates can’t be suppressed through power but have to be solved through social policies. The difficulty to obtain a weapon has to be high, with the incentives of doing so low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really bad argument given one of those chambers is literally run by, and full of, nazis.