wolvoleo

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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
That's the narrative about Europe as well. That we're somehow overrun by immigrants. Yet I can walk here in the city at night without getting robbed at gunpoint. Or any point really. Pickpockets are a pest here but that's abo
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Why would investing in green tech make you poor? That's what's wrong with that argument. Moving away from fossil fuels is cheaper. Green energy is very cheap, it just misses a base load component right now. It's just that th
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Can GOS continue to support existing pixels if AOSP drops support for them I wonder? But it's easy to say 'whatever the cost' if you're wealthy :) For many people especially outside the US it's not that simple.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
The nexus 4 was also really mediocre. Only partial 4g and poor battery life iirc. The nexus 5 also by LG was bulls eye though. Except for the ceramic letters constantly falling off.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
True, here in Europe they're definitely not. Especially on prepaid. I wouldn't buy a phone without dual physical sim. eSIM is nice for travelling but I want physical for my daily numbers. This way I can stick them in any phone I w
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
How are those features industry standard if most of the industry doesn't have them? Serious question. I applaud you guys aiming high but it is high IMO. But I do worry about the cost of entry. The pixel a series were just really good v
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes but all phones coming out now are going to be complete turds really. They're all going to cut corners to offset the exploding cost of storage and ram.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Same here. It really helps me get deep into things that would have been daunting to start due to the boring research work required. I have heavy ADHD and high intelligence (not to brag, it is often more of a burden than a blessing!) so I ca
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes for this there isn't, strange enough. I don't know why either. I read that part of the issue is that the EU still considers part of the waste policy a national sovereignty. But I don't know enough about that to verify tha
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes it was an error because backspace does function as a backspace when a text input field has the focus. Making something that should be muscle memory context-dependent. It should have been Ctrl-Backspace or something.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
At least Apple still shows them when you hold option. At least they did when I still used a Mac.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes and especially the new web-driven apps are terrible at it.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Which is not Microsoft. Maybe back in that day but today no. It's more Quality Assumption now :)
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
> The idea that it must be more accessible because it’s confined to a mono space typeface and communicates state mostly by changing the foreground and background color of the text it renders makes no sense to me. That's not why. It&
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
It's not about the packaging really. It could be as simple as a bubble wrap envelope. The problem is having to register in every country and some of them levy fees that are insane for small artists. The EU was supposed to be a single e
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
I'd be happy with a lot of the current websites to disappear. There's way too much crap around anyway. And the ones that are worth it, yeah I'd pay for them. If they are ethical and worth it (I won't pay for anything fro
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Sorry I made a typo. When I said: > For that price you can use something much much cheaper. I meant "For that model size you can use something much cheaper".
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
I use Llama.cpp and OpenAI-style API of course (who doesn't, unless you use Ollama perhaps?) Ollama sucks, they dropped ROCm support for my card out of the blue, and the Vulkan replacement wasn't ready. The developer just shrugged
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes it works great with them through Vulkan. ROCm is more hit and miss, especially because the cards which are affordable (and PCIe, the new ones aren't PCIe compatible!) are already fairly old and have already been dropped by ROCm. Bu
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
I'm not sure. I don't use Mac anymore. It used to be my daily driver but they pushed me away a few years ago with the constant iOSification. I've heard good thing about LM Studio, that's about it. https://lmst
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes that's cool for a company but not when I'm the end user, because it's my data that's being misused. It's my problem and having someone to blame doesn't actually solve the problem.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Similar here, except I used Opus 4.8. I don't mind using cloud models to make code as long as I don't put actual private data into the model. And I can't run qwen 27b reliably at the moment, I need a better gpu. It was pretty
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
For me, a HUGE benefit to running local models is that my data stays mine, on my computers only. Even if Google, OpenAI, Anthropic whatever promise not to use it, how sure can I be of that? Data is gold anyway. And we're in the middle
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
What? Below 100tk/s is worthless? I agree that 14t/s is pretty tedious for interactive use, yes. But 50-60tk/s is faster than I can read. 100tk/s is outright fast. Don't forget there is a limit entering content into
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
These numbers are a lot lower than I expected from such pricey hardware. I'll stick with my old AMD datacenter cards thanks. An Instinct MI50 32GB would cost around $550 or so. It has 1TB/s vram bandwidth thanks to its HBM2.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
> On the other hand, the Nigerian prince of scams would probably just use his LLM:s to take care of the answers, and we'll have email storms of LLM:s stringing along LLM:s. I already see that happening in other ways. On a forum I fr
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
That will happen anyway. All the manufacturers want to do this so they can route every install through their app store and collect rent from it. It's Apple's primary source of profit these days. Besides, I'm not going to suck
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Tbh I'm all in favour of ad fraud because it undermines the whole industry which I'd love to see disappear. I love running ad nauseam which instead of hiding ads clicks them all in an invisible browser, making advertisers pay for
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
I've seen Whisper do this exact thing as well. And also repeating a few words over and over near the end, words that were said but not completely at the end. It seems to overwrite the last few sentences with that so actual content is l
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
I think the issue is more that big tech only trusts their own kind and usually has motives to exclude privacy conscious software because they can't datamine it or make backroom exclusivity deals. The needs of the user don't matter

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