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> But there’s a catch: the advanced capabilities of these NPUs are tightly tethered to Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. Why? If anything, hardware acceleration sho
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
> But there’s a catch: the advanced capabilities of these NPUs are tightly tethered to Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem.
Why? If anything, hardware acceleration should make it easier to run AI locally.
- ethbr1 2y agoHow many years old are open source GPU drivers, again?
- kcb 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics) > February 1995
- wmf 2y agoThe article is about Windows, a proprietary OS with proprietary drivers. Open source isn't the topic here.
- rnd0 2y agoIt is the topic, you're right. Open Source is the appropriate reply to the topic.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIt can be both: * You can of course run Microsoft's AI on Windows on this hardware. * But I'll bet you can also use the NPU and the drivers that Windows has with different AI software. * And sooner or later, I'm very interested to see Linux drivers for these NPUs so we can have nice hardware-accelerated AI without needing any proprietary software. So I'd say that FOSS is an appropriate reply, but there is room for a continuum of answers.
- wmf 2y agoHonestly no. When you say "if you want privacy just use Linux" you're throwing billions of people under the bus. If they were willing to use Linux they would have already switched. Everyone deserves privacy including Windows "lusers".
- rnd0 2y agoI agree that everyone deserves privacy -no argument there. I wouldn't call windows users 'lusers' and in fact I did not. That said, Microsoft has made it abundantly clear what direction that they are going in and it is an invasive consumer-hostile anti-privacy direction. This will not change. For that reason, open source solutions such as Linux or better yet OpenBSD (in ideal only, I don't run it and wouldn't expect anyone else to) are the only chance of retaining end-user control and privacy. I say 'chance' because it's not out of the realm of possibility that Microsoft, Google or others will social engineer consumer-hostile changes into the Linux ecosystem -I have no illusions about that. But at least consumers have a chance and that is something that can not be said of Windows.
- garyfirestorm 2y agoreminds me of that time when linus torvalds took a dig at nvidia. looking back at it, it seems very well deserved.
- wyldfire 2y agoHopefully you can blow a fuse and have complete control over devices like these. It'd be nice if the ARM-based SoCs had the same openness expectation that x86 historically has had.
- eimrine 2y agoOne is so easy, to run MS's software really locally. Just disconnect any Internet wires and wipe the system before installing any update from M$ to prevent Windows phoning home with my AI experience.
- nmeagent 2y agoThat's all fine and good until the hardware, which you won't control, comes with its own prepaid cellular modem that connects at will and sends that juicy data back to the mothership. Follow the consequences of your OS being effectively spyware controlled by a hostile external entity and things get dark rather quickly.