Unfortunately my model isn't supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.
turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized
If that's the point then that's the entire GPU used for mining then ML revolution, thanks to CUDA mostly, that already happened in 2010 so that's even older, that'd 15 yeas ago.
What I was highlighting anyway is that it's hard to trust an article where simple facts are wrong.
What is this... "Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU"? Are we in back in 2020? Half a decade ago? Is this a joke? Even then, it wasn't the flagship, the 3090 Ti was.
FWIW you can use a Roomba without an app. You... push the physical button on the robot, and voila. No app, no connection, still cleaning.
Sure you can't schedule cleaning but honestly unless you have a version that can empty it's own trash recipient and your house is always robot cleaning friendly (so... 0 cable on the way, chairs aside, etc) it's rarely a huge efficiency gain.
Honestly I feel like 10y/o there was a lot of hype around vacuuming robot but it didn't "explode" in popularity because it's not really such a big difference.
Blocked, you're just trying to be provocative instead of having a constructive discussion. I don't have time to waste on that so don't bother replying to my comments, I won't see what you write anymore.
In case any parent is reading this and feels (somehow!) like "Oh no... my child will be left behind!" to the point of considering buying some BS humanoid or animaloid "pedagogical" robot, get yourself a (European designed) good "old" Lego set! They've been at it for decades (literally, since at least 1998 with Mindstorms) and they focus specifically on pedagogy at school with e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-education-spike-essential-set-45345
Do NOT get a cheap piece of plastic that you do not understand, that behaves in "smart" ways you can't explain and that passes data long you have no idea about!
"Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn't have a name for it – yet. "It's like a little teacher or a little friend," the boy said"
... it's way WORST than a fail. How do you think this human will develop assuming friendship with a (commercial) product rather than another human being? My bet, but I'm no psychologist, is poorly.
That opening photo is so telling, a chess robot ... while one could literally run https://lichess.org/ from ANY device (tablet, mobile phone, laptop, etc) and have a functionally equivalent experience for free (both open source and free of cost, no ad either), in fact arguably a much better one due 0 setup time (literally none, it's all Web based!) to all the community, tutoring exercises, etc.
IMHO that's the linchpin, what's the gap between what a leader (political or business) would claim to be true versus... what's actually working, and beyond that, what's actually useful then used in practice.
Working in innovation we called this the "marketing gap" and it's quite a funnel, from broad claim that AI or any other emerging technology will "change everything" to what people, workers and consumers alike, actually use frequently and are wiling to pay for.
One needs bold claims, even if false, to get votes or funding money.
added AI to its products basically to receive government subsidies.
Damn, I opened this post bracing myself for BS comments praising AI slop but this was actually interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you have any references (in English ideally) where I could read about such trends there, not propaganda & tech marketing like that BBC piece?
I wish I had know both how painless it was AND how happy (even proud) I'd be about it!
Honestly the 1 thing that matters is : having your data backed-up. Everything else is secondary. Sure, you will have some UX hiccups, the UI will be new, some tools won't behave exactly like you are used to, so what? Live and learn the same way you did with Google products. We have been absolutely brainwashed (and I do mean "we", I don't mean "you") to believe that whenever there is a big bright BigTech logo, it's safe and easy. It's not! We are just used to it and when we genuinely think back, we did learn where everything is. When things change we assume we're at fault.
Anyway... if you are genuinely nervous, just try for a month and rollback or, IMHO better, switch to another provider. I've been a paying Proton customer for years (all services) and I like it but it's not perfect either. If Proton goes to shit, I'll switch.
Indeed, to be clear it's in Europe but not in a EU country "Proton services are operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland." but they are still GDPR (data protection law from the EU) compliant, cf https://proton.me/support/is-proton-mail-gdpr-compliant
Again... I didn't even read the article but "[redacted to remove bias] University researchers have developed [better] than leading [whatever]." is definitely interesting yet also pointless. Of course research is important, even fundamental, to the production process... but it's not a fair comparison because production, at scale, and economically reliable requires a LOT more constraints!
So the research, regardless of the source, is welcomed but comparing to production rather than comparing to other research labs pushing limits on the same dimensions is not useful.
PS: for my starting "Again" see my post history.
Edit : AFAICT "outperforms the most advanced commercial chips from [...] Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre." IMEC doesn't do commercial chips, just research.
China is now making their own chips domestically that are only a generation or two behind the bleeding edge.
Maybe I'm missing something here, which chips are you talking about? Are you talking about something other than Kirin 9000S and if so which ones please?
Unfortunately my model isn't supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.