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Better than a benchmark, you should try Boinc or Folding@Home.

Heating by science.

A model being local doesn’t make it magically better than cloud based ones. Especially since your local hardware may not be as optimized as professional hardware.

And I say that as a local AI user.

The way to make it less harmful mainly comes from external factors :

• The origin of the electricity (renewable)
• Shift consumption to a time of low demand (or use a residential battery)
• Use specialized hardware for specific tasks (use less energy per token)

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I’d add to that that you can reuse the heat generated to heat your apartment. But it only works during winter, as during summer any heat generated will make your AC (if you have one) work harder.

Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.

I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).

Make repetitive tasks like unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.

I switched to full Linux on my personal hardware though. I only use Windows for work.

Same here, the Steam Deck changed my life 😆. Less AAA, more AA and indie games, especially at work.

There are not many cards you need these days, especially not that doesn’t have an USB equivalent. USB capture cards are now decent, same for Wi-Fi+Bluetooth ones (provided you buy one with deported antennas). Other than storage related ones (for moar m.2!, or for sff SAS ports), I don’t see that much uses these days.

Even my NAS, which uses a micro-ATX MB, only uses one slot on the 3 available. And all its 4 m.2 ports are used (2 for redundant system discs, one for an AI accelerators (for Frigate object detection), the last one being an old SSD used as ZFS cache for my main disk array (will probably be replaced by another AI accelerator once I find another use which would need one).

IGPs are very dependant on memory speed. Many uses gains from faster memory speed (but I can’t give you one out of memory), but most games gains more from memory latency than raw speed (with some exception, like Stellaris).
Usually, if your app is CPU heavy, you’ll gain from RAM speed.

More like for the price of 64GB.

And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.

To be honnest, Nextcloud is kinda a piece of shit software. Every major version break something, an error in an extension can make it crash entirely without any failsafe preventing it. I already lost the database twice (in what… 5 major versions), and the only reason I still use it is because I’m too lazy to use anything not in the TrueNAS apps repository.

On the other hand, they already sell it so high I ended up buying mine without RAM. I found 2x16Go for 125€ vs 180€ sold by Framework 😅. Same speed, but I can’t compare CAS as Framework do not list them on their page.

Edit : some source claims DDR5 5600 C46 for those sold by Framework, which is the same as the ones I bought. So I consider myself lucky, despite the price hike (the same kit was 65-70€ last summer)

The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.

You can now use thirds parties APIs for Passkey. I use ProtonPass on my part, it works great most of the time, but there are still some apps that have Google provider hard-coded.

For a normal user, 16G is still enough.

But for a power user like me, a Dev, with multiple IDE open, multiple browsers, a database manager with a dockerized DB, I’m basically at 96-98% RAM all the time.

But even then, if you use a local AI, prepare to loose multiple Gigs to it.
I already used more than 30 Gigs on one LLM (dolphin-mixtral:8x7B for the curious), when I tried testing it, and a more reasonable Mistral:7B still took me like 4Gigs just to run.

It always does. I remember buying my DDR4 RAM 200€, and two months later the same kit was 550€. Some month later it was back at 220€.

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Yeah, sure, a clanker gonna do grammar mistakes that he corrects many days later after waking up.

I suppose in your world everything you hate is woke, and everyone that isn’t like you is a clanker, right?

Not necessarily. But your reaction is a good illustration of what the conservative narrative is when it comes to DEI.

DEI isn’t about excluding a majority to promote a minority, but to make sure being part of a minority doesn’t handicap someone.

But some people feels that it is in their right to exclude people they don’t like, which can be understable when it comes to not recruit someone who stole from you previously, but in most case it is based on prejudices against specific minorities. And that’s the main problem.

Those prejudices, most of the times based on misunderstandings, fear of the unknown, if not jealousy (antisemitism in Europe is often based on the idea that Jews perceived overall wealth is stolen from others).

Those prejudices greatly diminishes (or, as you wrote, “steals”) their chance to be chosed for well paid work (if not work at all), and to be represented in media like videogames (because of knee jerk reaction like that game where you steal back artifacts from museum got).

DEI, when not exaggerated to the extremes, is beneficiary for everyone involved. Recruiters find talents they wouldn’t have previously considered, people broadens their horizon by learning others culture, philosophy and history. Who in their right mind would refuse that, other that self-centered bigots?

In my case I’m glad of the diversity of people I meet at work. I don’t care if they are black or white, gay or straight, male, female, or anything in between. They are competent and hardworking, that’s the only metrics that should matters.

12v batteries probaby, but EV I’d doubt it considering how much range was a major hurdle to overcome. More weight, less range with the same capacity, meaning you need to add even more capacity, which reduces the space available for everything else.

My vision would be Li-ion will still be the king for medium to high-end EV, but for low-end EV, or those for whom range isn’t as much of a problem than for other (short range commuters) that would indeed be a game changer.

In my case, a 300-400 km range sodium-ion battery car, with a decent fast charge (less that an hour from to 80 percent) would be ideal. I use trains for anything further than that, and my car is mainly used for short range duties (less than 40km a day), once or twice a month. For anything closer than 20km I got my trusty cargo bike (which I use extensively, 2700km last year).

Especially for residential/static storage, where energy to weight ratio isn’t as important.