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  • Shoot your shot, player.

    Don’t go crazy or over the top, don’t overdo it, but just say it. If they’re a good friend they won’t be scared away. If they’re like you that way you’ll both be happier.

    Don’t overthink it, ask them if they’d ever like to hang out or do something more like a date.

    Ballsy, direct, badass. That can be you.

    Dating is awkward but life gets a lot better once you get more comfortable with it. Everyone is a dating idiot until they’re not, there’s a good chance your friend is still in the idiot stage and maybe hell be over the moon that you helped push through it.

  • More than distro hopping maybe try out a zen kernel or compiling kernel yourself and changing kernel config and scheduler, or a newer version of the stock kernel?

    I’m not super current on what’s in each kernel but I’d expect latest mainline to handle newer processors better than some of the older stable kernels in some of the more mainstream slower releasing distros.

  • Ran Asahi for several months, tried it out again recently. It’s good/fine, I just don’t love fedora.

    There’s some funkiness with the more complicated install, the AI acceleration doesn’t work, no thunderbolt / docking station.

    MacBooks are great hardware but I don’t think they’re the best option for Linux right now. If you’re never going to boot into macOS then I’d look for x13, new Qualcomm, isn’t there a framework arm64 option now or was that a RISC module?

    I’m also assuming you’re not looking to do any gaming? Because gaming on ARM is not really a thing right now and doesn’t feel like it will be for a long while.

  • Really love arch and the AUR. I've been tempted to get nix set up for the rare cases when there's no AUR package or the AUR package is unmaintained. I figure if there's no package in the AUR or nixpkgs, it's probably not worth running.

  • btop reports some gpu, network and disk information that I don't think shows up in htop, feels a bit more comprehensive maybe? Both are fine, but I too use btop, it's nice.

    Random trivia: I think btop has been rewritten like 3-5 times now? It's sort of an inside joke to the point that someone suggested another rewrite from C++ to Rust ( https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/5 ). I guess the guy just likes writing system monitoring console apps.

  • It's not uncommon on sensitive stories like this for the government to loop-in journalists ahead of time so they can pull together background and research with an agreed-upon embargo until some point in the future.

    This wasn't the US government telling the newspaper they couldn't report on a story they had uncovered from their own investigation.

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  • There's quantization which basically compresses the model to use a smaller data type for each weight. Reduces memory requirements by half or even more.

    There's also airllm which loads a part of the model into RAM, runs those calculations, unloads that part, loads the next part, etc... It's a nice option but the performance of all that loading/unloading is never going to be great, especially on a huge model like llama 405b

    Then there are some neat projects to distribute models across multiple computers like exo and petals. They're more targeted at a p2p-style random collection of computers. I've run petals in a small cluster and it works reasonably well.

  • Yale z-wave work well and last a long time between needing to replace batteries, and can run off of rechargeables. Can add to home assistant and work with Siri and Alexa integrations on home assistant.

    Had some Schlage locks that ran through batteries way too fast.

  • Exactly, if she could feel shame or humiliation she would be hiding in a cabin somewhere and never speaking to another person or camera again for the rest of her life...

    Sorry, I got distracted by a happy thought there, what were we talking about?

  • When they’re not recording your desktop in an unencrypted database for AI, boot-looping your computer with bad patches or showing ads in your start menu, they’re disabling your account for calling family to see if they’re still alive. Damn.

  • Taking ollama for instance, either the whole model runs in vram and compute is done on the gpu, or it runs in system ram and compute is done on the cpu. Running models on CPU is horribly slow. You won’t want to do it for large models

    LM studio and others allow you to run part of the model on GPU and part on CPU, splitting memory requirements but still pretty slow.

    Even the smaller 7B parameter models run pretty slow in CPU and the huge models are orders of magnitude slower

    So technically more system ram will let you run some larger models but you will quickly figure out you just don’t want to do it.

  • Boeing made $76B in revenue in 2023. This is slightly more than 1 day's revenue for them ($210M / day) or a bit more than 10 days profit for them ($21M / day). They will keep doing what they're doing, but increase their spending on a PR campaign to improve their public image.

  • FWIW they didn't merge it, they closed the PR without merging, link to line that still exists on master.

    The recent comments are from the announcement of the ladybird browser project which is forked from some browser code from Serenity OS, I guess people are digging into who wrote the code.

    Not arguing that the new comments on the PR are good/bad or anything, just a bit of context.