GenderNeutralBro

Kids these days and their "Plasma". BACK IN MY DAY it was just KDE!

I'm not sure why this feels new to me. Perhaps it's because I spent a lot of time on other DEs after 2009.

But also, from that link:

We will use "KDE" exclusively in two meanings:

• KDE, the community, which creates free software for end users
• As an umbrella brand for the technology created by the KDE community

So I don't feel like it's wrong to just call it KDE, just imprecise.

Wild guess: a tool for manually shaping iron rods or rebar?

Backups: No. Google does not grant you access to the full disk to make backups anymore (for many years now).

Factory reset: Yes. This will NOT restore your personal data. See https://developers.google.com/android/images for Google's OS image downloads, and https://grapheneos.org/install/cli#replacing-grapheneos-with-the-stock-os for how to revert from Graphene.

I don't see any mention of whether this uses local models or cloud models. I'm not interested in sending anything I care about it into the cloud.

Spot on.

SNW is good but I don't think we'll ever see a return to the old TV format of 20+ episode seasons. You can't do random episodic stories all that well in 6-12 episodes. Short seasons have no room to breathe.

Even Futurama has this problem with the two new Hulu seasons, and that's without the burden of an overarching plot to keep moving forward.

In Settings > Home, there's a Sponsored Shortcuts checkbox.

If you think this isn't related to human rights, then you've missed the point.

People have the right to use technology, and indeed we effectively need technology to exercise our right to free speech. You cannot have one without the other. Not anymore.

The right way to think about this that they are arbitrarily banning a topic of discussion simply because it is not dead-center average. This isn't even a legal issue, and the justification is utter nonsense (Facebook itself runs on Linux, like >90% of the internet). No government has officially asked them to do this, though the timing suggests that it is unofficially from the Trump administration.

This is about exerting control, establishing precedent, and applying a chilling effect to anything not directly aligned with their interests. This obviously extends to human rights issues. This is a test run.

No. Definitely not. The only reason to use Python2 would be if you inherited an old code base, and then your first order of business would be migrating it to Python3.

Maybe if they distilled the coder version of qwen 14b it might be a little better but i doubt it. I think a really high quant 70b model is more in range of cooking functioning code off the bat. Its not really fair to compare a low quant local model to o1 or Claude with on the cloud they are much bigger.

That's a good point. I got mixed up and thought it was distilled from qwen2.5-coder, which I was using for comparison at the same size and quant. qwen2.5-coder-34b@4bit gave me better (but not entirely correct) responses, without spending several minutes on CoT.

I think I need to play around with this more to see if CoT is really useful for coding. I should probably also compare 32b@4bit to 14b@8bit to see which is better, since those both can run within my memory constraints.

Sounds cool. I'm using LM Studio and I don't think it has that built in. I should reevaluate others.

I'm not entirely sure how I need to effectively use these models, I guess. I tried some basic coding prompts, and the results were very bad. Using R1 Distill Qwen 32B, 4-bit quant.

The first answer had incorrect, non-runnable syntax. I was able to get it to fix that after multiple followup prompts, but I was NOT able to get it to fix the bugs. It took several minutes of thinking time for each prompt, and gave me worse answers than the stock Qwen model.

For comparison, GPT 4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 gave me code that would at least run on the first shot. 4o's was even functional in one shot (Sonnet's was close but had bugs). And that took just a few seconds instead of 10+ minutes.

Looking over its chain of thought, it seems to get caught in circles, just stating the same points again and again.

Not sure exactly what the use case is for this. For coding, it seems worse than useless.

Yeah. If you want to be on the cutting edge of storage, look for a mobo that has PCIe gen5 m.2 slots. But really, PCIe gen4 m.2 drives are still pretty darned fast. You can get some with >7GB/sec transfer rates. Do you need >12GB/sec transfer from disk? Probably not. Is it cooooool? Sure. :)

This is a popular SSD these days, very good for the price: https://us-store.msi.com/PC-Components/Storage-Devices/Solid-State-Drive/M482-NVMe-M2-2TB-Bulk . If you want something high-end, look for an SSD with DRAM cache. Useful if you're writing massive amounts of data regularly, like video mastering or something like that, generally overkill otherwise.

I've been on the Ryzen x700 line for a long time now, first the 1700 and now on the 7700. No complaints, they rock. So I'd start by looking at the 9700. 9900 has more cores (and uses significantly more power), 9600 has fewer cores. Single-core performance is basically the same across the board, so it just depends on whether your workload can use a lot of cores or not. The "X3D" chips have additional CPU cache that supposedly improves performance in some workloads (notably in gaming). So if that's important to you, the 9800X3D is the natural choice.