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Very doable with Photonic compute in orbit: Way less waste heat (huge when you can only radiate it away), lower power draw per FLOP (smaller solar arrays), and photons don't give a damn about cosmic radiation causing bit flips.

It took a bit of extra effort but `faultmanager-autoroot` script worked on my LG WebOS Smart Monitor

They really are nice machines. The p series are even better. I'm using a P14s Gen 6 AMD as my daily driver and it is just a fabulous little machine

I was referring to: Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 14" - Touchscreen - 1920 x 1200 WUXGA - 16GB DDR5-512GB SSD - AMD Radeon 740M Laptop -Model Number 21MC003XUS

geohot: "I want a laptop with a high-end AMD chip, great Linux power management, good docs, solid build, and a normal name"

My brother in christ, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 5 AMD exists. Zen 5, aluminum chassis, legendary Linux support, actual power state documentation. They been doing this for 30 years. Dude, you're bikeshedding a product that's been sitting in the enterprise aisle this whole time

ThinkPads have been the Linux laptop for decades precisely because of the things he's wishing for. Public ACPI/power management docs, upstream kernel support, and AMD options with sane power profiles. He even admits the ZBook touchpad is fine but fails to acknowledge ThinkPads have had excellent trackpoints + multi-touchpads since forever.

Long before 2100, critical AI system will no longer be operating from this soil. They are in Earths orit, and on its moon.

Point taken, but actually it's 16gb soldered and 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM @2400mhz for a total of 48GB.

My daily driver for several years now has been an AMD Ryzen 7 powered ThinkPad t495. $120 used. After upgrading the RAM to 64gb it felt very snappy and usable. I run NixOS / Hyprland with rofi/waybar. When an accident happened and the first t495 was damaged, I bought a second for $80, swapped the parts and was back in business. I use it for coding, web research, and a bit of CAD design via FreeCAD. Very happy with the hardware!

Disagree; I drive a 40 year old Mercedes-Benz turbo diesel sedan for the exact opposite reason that nothing made today is as effective and reliable with comparative economy and comfort. My huge tank of a vehicle is safe, comfortable, and economic. Runs entirely on plant based biofuels and delivers an experience that no modern machines can rival. The cost of these old sedans steadily increases despite being 4 decadea old. Mine has 550000km on the odometer and rising. Simple and affordable to maintain, and can be worked on with standard hand tools. No computers on-board.

Yolo has actually been shown to be run on 15-year-old Canon cameras. They in no way have the power of my Nvidia Jetson. But they can run the model just the same. No cloud necessary. These small devices, well maybe not being able to process four individual video channels at 60 frames per second will still have the capability of processing at lower frame rates and with less channels. Using much cheaper hardware, and using a whole lot last energy. So I don't think you're argument really holds up.

You're entirely missing the point. Unless you can build the robot in question and the infrastructure that supports it's ability to operate, you will never own one. You will be a renter of hardware and services and you will be subject to an externalized market controller who can—at will—arbitrarily raise the costs of operating said robot.

My new T-shirt

From the Figure Master Plan:

"Today, manual labor compensation is the primary driver of goods and services prices, accounting for ~50% of global GDP (~$42 trillion/yr), but as these robots “join the workforce,” everywhere from factories to farmland, the cost of labor will decrease until it becomes equivalent to the price of renting a robot, facilitating a long-term, holistic reduction in costs.”

Renting a robot? What are the chances of robot rent-seeking becoming a drop in replacement for today's increasing costs of labor. A high likelihood potential outcome.

Doing what you love is fully justified in 2025.

Not necessarily. There are lots of use cases for on device AI inference. I run YOLO on an Nvidia Jetson powered Lenovo Think Edge, which processes incoming video at full frame rates on four channels with recognition and classification for a bespoke premises security system. No clouds involved other than the Nix package manager etc. Make sure your argument May carry more weight when you're talking about ultra low power devices like an Arduino running AI inference locally that seems like more of a stretch.

GaN in action!

Long ago I used a Nokia N900 running Maemo Mobile Linux. Later I tried the N9 running MeeGo Harmatten. Thes were the first true "Smart Phone" devices I encountered. Sadly the Microsoft involvement in Nokia's affairs led to their demise. It's really bummer that Jolla hasn't expanded into the North American market. I would buy a Jolla phone in an instant.

I want to run this on a Steam Deck!

This vibe coded app totally is helpful.

Improved my score from an abysmal 40% in under 15 units to above 95% accuracy. Also realize that I have skin lesion that warrant an immediate dermatologist visit.

Your characterizations are unnecessarily salty.

Interesting. I've never really thought much about Samsung phones because I always felt that they were really full of bloatware and features that seemed to distract more than present usefulness.

Knox sounds like a pretty awesome feature though.

I use `nix-on-droid` on a Pixel 9 running stock Android 16. It provides me with a nix shell that gives me ZSH, Starship prompt, NeoVim, w3m, ssh, alpine, Claude-code, Circumflex (TUI HackerNews Client) and just about anything else I want from the Nix packages ecosystem. I even have NUR ( Nix User Repositories) set up. I daily drive NixOS for work and for Pleasure. It's the most advanced operating system I've ever encountered. I can't wax enough praise.

The closest thing to a truly open source, fully functional and daily used mobile that I ever had was the Nokia N900. Man how I miss that thing. Maemo was Nokia's original Linux-based mobile OS, which ran on the N900/950.

MeeGo was created when Nokia merged Maemo with Intel's Moblin project around 2010. It was supposed to be the future of Nokia smartphones, but Nokia abandoned it in 2011 when they switched to Windows Phone as their primary smartphone platform. Idiots.

Mer was created as an open-source continuation of MeeGo after Nokia dropped it.

Sailfish OS was then built on top of Mer by Jolla, a company founded by former Nokia employees who had worked on MeeGo.

Jolla launched in 2013 with the goal of continuing the Linux mobile vision that Nokia had abandoned. They make phones and tablets.

https://jolla.com/

Similarly, the standard definitions of intelligence break down when we look at borderline cases like simple algorithms, collective insect behavior, or AI systems.

Viruses particularly exemplify “intelligence” is better understood as a spectrum of information-processing and adaptive behaviors rather than a strict threshold.

The issue seems to me that neither concept is wrong, but that we humans keep trying to impose absolute definitions on phenomena that exist along continua, blurring into one another in ways that resist our neat little categorizations.

I would argue viruses exemplify some of the highest evolved intelligence in our world.

As far as I'm aware—I first must admit with the caveat that I really only know about these early mechanical turbo diesel Mercedes-Benz. I don't pay attention to any of the petrol versions and most of the later versions I have no interest in at all—none of the North American vehicles, even the "Sonderklasse" had dual zone AC in 1987. This was a feature that came later.

Where's the license that discloses the underlying open source software?

I can confirm as an owner of several W124 vehicles, most notably the 1987 North American market S124, this is the 300 TDT, a station wagon version of the W124 chassis with the OM603 turbo diesel. Currently my wagons clock has just over 370,000 mi. This is a unicorn car in North America. They only sold this car during one sales year in 1987, with this particular engine configuration. This engine can also be found in several other cars around the same era from Mercedes-Benz.

I also own a 1999 W210 with the OM606 turbo diesel. This is the electronically controlled and upgraded version of the OM603. I can confirm that the w w210 is plagued with the myriad of problems. But it is still a fairly nice chassis with modern features and once one becomes acustomized with its particular idiosyncrasies it isn't really that horrible. But it's definitely not the tank that the w124 and w123 series chassis were. The primary prize is the OM606 engine. Which is commonly extracted from the W210 chassis and used to repower any number of other vehicles. There are lots of ways to crank tons of horsepower out of these engines, but at the sacrifice of their longevity.

It's our fault—we've all been overusing emojis and the em—dash for years.

Starlink was successful from very early on and started bringing it's parent SpaceX ramen money from day one of the networks public availability. They have continued to improve the hardware and steadily grow their user base. Pull up to any truck rest stop off the Interstate 10 in the US and you will see hundreds of starlink terminals dotting the roofs of all the long haul truckers cabs. These truckers undoubtedly enjoy the better connectivity than cellular phones or dodgy WiFi, and are willing to pay the SpaceX premium prices for it. They are one of many captive audiences SpaceX capitalized off of. There's only one show in town. Amazon could poach customers from Starlink if it provided cheaper service and hardware, with competitive data speeds and up-time. Competition is always good for the consumer.

I clicked. I didn't cry.

Speaking of ripgrep, adding `rg`, `fzf` and a few other tools to my Claude config seems to have been helpful in reducing token consumption and improving agents capabilities. I'm curious what other tools people are giving their agents instructions to use and what the experience is like?

Appears broken when looking for 5g routers.

Demoscene. A number of countries meaning Norway, Sweden and Finland?