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Products targeted towards businesses have always been unreasonably more expensive than those targeted towards consumers. It sucks for us AI hobbyists that Nvidia are stingy with VRAM on consumer cards, but I don't find it surprising.

Personally I only have a single RTX 3090, but I know a lot of people online who are stacking multiple consumer cards to run AI. Buying used 3090s and putting them in a mining rig is probably still the best value for money if you need a large amount of VRAM.

How much VRAM do you actually need btw?

Would be interesting to see how it compares to a 3d printed M10 (or equivalent diameter) screw+nut

new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures

The ones you linked look like they were printing at high temp.

It's not just you, there's a financial incentive to write "reviews" which convince the reader to immediately buy the product, because of referral links. Even disregarding that the fact that it takes much more time and knowledge to write an actual unbiased review, you'll most likely earn less money as you might dissuade readers from buying it, or even if you just make them think a bit more before going through with the purchase and they end up buying the printer somewhere else. I've started referring to these kind of pages as "fake reviews", it plagues almost every product category and it has made it very unreliable to use the internet for buying advice.

Though I suppose it's even worse for 3d printing, as some manufacturers have been known to pay youtubers for positive reviews and to lie about their competitor's printers. And even the ones who don't get cash in the hand still have some incentive to bias their reviews, as pointing out a printer's flaws or recommending to buy something else would make them less likely to receive more free products to review in the future.

It's literally the same (probably exaggerated) marketing material as Sovol themselves are trying to sell their Kickstarter project with, reformatted to look like an article. Not surprising that it has a couple of "Click Here to Buy Now: $999 $1299 ($300 off). Hurry, only 94/200 left!" referral links..

It might be true that Sovol has made some of the least bad budget printers recently, but anyone who has brand loyalty to any of the companies that make cheap 3d printers in China is bound to get disappointed sooner or later. Years ago Creality also made relatively good printers, using high quality parts and with acceptable quality control (e.g. OG Ender 3 era) and when they became market leaders they dropped the quality, and I would be surprised if Sovol didn't do the same given the opportunity. I'd wait a couple of months after it's released, and try to find some actual reviews.

3D Printing discord's List of 3D printers even has a generic warning for Kickstarter printers:

More of a warning against kickstarter machines, up until now almost all of them huge failures, with delays in shipping and troubles in terms of QC. They just use the early backers as free quality check/beta testing for the most part. Remember you are not buying a product on kickstarter, you are paying for a possibility to get a product.

Might as well link to the original post on reddit, I don't think Tom's Hardware much value in their summary of it :)

If I, a humble computer hobbyist can figure out Nix, why don’t more users do so, and why is Nix so niche?

My guess as to why this isn't a more central feature of Linux distros is that this is not something most users need. If you need to reinstall the OS because you broke it, then a full system backup is probably more convenient, even if it's less than optimal to back up packages which you could download. If you need to reinstall the OS because you want a clean slate when upgrading to a new version, then your package list for the old version could cause a lot of conflicts as maintainers regularly remove and add new packages.

I have backed up my zsh, vim, tmux, etc. configs and written a few shell scripts which install them and download vim plugins etc. If I ever need to reinstall the OS I would use these. However, in the last 20 years since I ditched Windows I have reinstalled Linux exactly two times: Once because I was an idiot and didn't have a proper backup when I accidentally formatted the wrong HDD, and once when I switched from Xubuntu to Fedora in which case a package list wouldn't have been usable.

You mean you have turned it off completely? I used it with the stock E3v2 extruder and BMG in Bowden mode, and later with BMG in direct drive mode, without any retraction related problems and I think it's the same for the majority of 3d printer owners. Perhaps your printer had some other issue, which only showed up in combination with retraction?

Did you calibrate flow rate, retraction and z offset? Teaching Tech has a pretty thorough guide for all things calibration.

DRM filament spools has already been a thing, XYZprinting tried it but luckily it didn't catch on and they went bankrupt a few years ago.

If you want to funnel more players into your tabletop game

I'm pretty sure Hasbro/WotC's only goal is to funnel more money into their bank accounts :D

You can compare with Games Workshop, who also created extremely turn based games in the past but later licensed their IP for all sorts of games, from strategical turn based ones to fast action shooters. I don't see any reason why an action adventure game would be more likely fail just because it's set in the D&D world, or why this would have any negative impact on sales of either the TTRPG or other licensed computer games like BG3.

I use Fedora (KDE) and game a lot. While I mostly like it, I've had some problems with it that were non-trivial to solve, so if you're a Linux beginner I would not necessarily recommend it to you.

Perhaps Bazzite would be a good option? It's based on Fedora and created with gaming in mind. I got it recommended here and installed it on a friend's kid's computer and he's very happy with it so far.

There's also Nobara which builds on Fedora to create a gaming-focused distro.

So for 4 years we couldn't get graphics cards for gaming because of crypto mining.. Now when that situation is finally starting to slowly improve they're saying we won't be able to get gaming cards because of AI.. sigh

I mean I think it's fun to run some local AI models, but gaming is still the primary reason I'm spending €1000 on a computer component.

Most of the smaller models, but the better ones are 20-30Wh per query. I'm a pretty infrequent AI user and I easily end up with 10+ queries per conversation, looking at my chatgpt history. Multiplying with the number of users one could see how the total amount of energy could get quite high.

Paper GTK theme is a little bit similar, though with more vibrant colours ofc.

It says "imported" so probably made for a fraction of that in China.

Exllamav3 is still in development so it's not fully optimized and could have bugs, but I get 16k context with 4bpw (which has very similar perplexity as Q4_K_M, according to developer's own measurements) using only 22GB VRAM, since I also run my desktop env on the same computer.

The game, the movie, or the keyboard?

Official repo says $114 per arm, but I didn't check their math :) https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot

Tbh the majority of my FOSS contributions were to fix problems affecting me personally :) but I'm glad that they're helping others too. This one is definitely the one that goes on my CV though hehe