KDE Plasma is genuinely good

Kubuntu is a drop-in replacement for Windows 10

Before piracy there were demos and shareware, which let you see if your machine could handle the game or content and give you a vertical slice, and let you show it to friends for word of mouth advertising.

Then, Steam put a two hour refund window with no questions asked, which helped a lot of “this crashes on start, I can’t open this at all on a RTX 4090/high end PC, 15 FPS in the fog, etc”.

Developers learned from that and they began padding/gating content behind two hours of gameplay, so you wouldn’t know until 3-4 hours in that the game was grindy dogshit (SCUM, Ark, Empyrion, and countless other Early Access and sometimes full release titles like NMS on launch day for example).

So the correct thing to do, and it’s what I do: Pirate the game, make sure it runs/works and is fun and there’s no “gotcha” traps or hidden DLCs or other predatory mechanics involved, and THEN pay for the full title on Steam+DLCs and just continue the save.

My Steam Account has actually already been flagged over a dozen times for this because my primary savegames are like Razor1911.sav, and so far it’s still in good status because I am actually spending a couple thousand/year on content.

I have overclocked my AMD 7900XTX as far as it will go on air alone.

Undervolted every step on the frequency curve, cranked up the power, 100% fan duty cycles.

At it’s absolute best, it’s competitive or trades blows with the 4090D, and is 6% slower than the RTX 4090 Founder’s Edition (the slowest of the stock 4090 lineup).

The fastest AMD card is equivalent to a 4080 Super, and the next gen hasn’t shown anything new.

AMD needs a 5090-killer. Dual socket or whatever monstrosity which pulls 800W, but it needs to slap that greenbo with at least a 20-50% lead in frame rates across all titles, including raytraced. Then we’ll see some serious price cuts and competition.

It’s really uplifting when you put it that way, yes

I wait and let everyone figure out what the least broken Linux distro is.

Debian is stable. Stable is good, for an operating system; because I actually want to use my computer.

Not play with the operating system for 4-6 hours per day.

Hell yeah, I love scientists 😎

You’re right 👍

I guess this makes me an engineer using FP4 and not FP64

F = M×A

So if your F and A are constants (e.g: Where A is the gravity of the Earth) you solve for M.

Also known as a balancing scale.

Magrail works too.

So the “myth” is that they have pivoted to social engineering and traditional ways of breaking into systems.

How is that any different from the early hackers of the late 70s and 80s?

Kevin Mitnick was famous for social engineering.

Big nothingburger of a web article.

If you are using CPU only, you need to look at very small models or the 2-bit quants.

Everything will be extremely slow otherwise:

GPU:

Loaded Power: 465W

Speed: 18.5 tokens/second

CPU: Loaded Power: 115W

Speed: 1.60 tokens/second

GPUs are at least 3 times faster for the same power draw.

I don’t know what GPU you’ve got, but Lexi V2 is the best “small model” I’ve seen with emotions, that I can just cite from the top of my head.

It tends to skew male and can be a little dark at times, but it’s more complex than expected for the size (8B feels like 48-70B).

Lexi V2 Original

Lexi V2 GGUF Version

Do Q8_0 if you’ve got the VRAM, Q5_KL for speed, IQ4_XS if you’ve got a potato.

My answer to this is yes.

I’m an AI Developer and my only option was to self host because I didn’t want my training data leaking out onto the web and by extension, China and the rest (I trained on my own data, writing, and notes, along with Wikipedia).

Self-hosting gives you complete freedom but also as one other user cautioned, don’t fall down the well/rabbit hole.

Use an executable like LM Studio, and then an off the shelf pre-trained model from Huggingface.

VRAM × 0.8 for max size.

Experiment until you find one you like.

Get in the robot, Shinji

It’s because of this bullshit.

Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

500? 2000? 10,000+?

Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.

P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.

I’ve got new blue LED bulbs that emit 133 lux while consuming 5 watts of electricity, which is 26.6 lumens/watt.

It is so bright that it blows the room out with blue color/light, so I completely believe this article.

Thanks; I needed this article.

As a transdimensional entity, I found myself stuck for a lifetime as a human being and figured that would make my life a cakewalk intellectually.

I took a couple of graduate-level examinations: LSAT, MCAT, GRE and scored shockingly average, if not below average.

I arrived at the conclusion that standardized testing is rigorously biased towards those with resources: Students or individuals with ample time and money to practice very constrained and narrow questions – “testing to test” or learning how to “game” the exam.

When I revealed this incongruity to a colleague, they laughed and said: “You need to be smart enough to cheat on an exam and not get caught”.

Humanity is odd, and it won’t stop being odd.

Perhaps the birds had it right, and the most colorful plumage, or the way someone dances is impressive, not their “IQ score”.

What’s life if you’ve never licked your expensive electronics?

Holy shit there’s so many sub-distros in this thread:

Arch

• EndeavorOS
• Cachy
• Void
• Nix
• Manjaro

Which one do we install for gaming, or do we wait for SteamOS on Desktop?

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Holy fuck, this can’t be right - mine says I’m responsible for millions of deaths! In the future!

What do we do?!