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And have you tried to find out why IQ associations are "taboo" in academia?

For reference, 12k gets you at least 4 Strix Halo boxes each running GPT-OSS-120B at ~50tok/s.

Have you tried Debian with the XCFE desktop? Should be pretty similar to Xubuntu (but without Snap, of course)

Well and Russia. Trump essentially crippled the impact of 4 years of sanctions against Russia with these new oil prices he created.

Local LLM inference is all about memory bandwidth, and an M4 pro only has about the same as a Strix Halo or DGX Spark. That's why the older ultras are popular with the local LLM crowd.

Those are of almost zero use for people wishing to run Linux etc.

Yes, Asahi exists, and props to the developers, but I don't think I'm alone in being unwilling to buy hardware from a manufacturer who obviously is not interested in supporting open operating systems

Yeah I'm pretty happy with the M5 (beside the look). It's most probably the same SixUnited board most Strix Halo devices use (including the ones from HP and Lenovo).

I'm not really using them for coding (only played a little bit with minimax2.1), which is probably the most common use case here.

I mainly use them for deep work with texts and deep research. My main criterion is privacy, both for legal reasons (I'm in the EU and can't and don't want to expose customer's data to non-gdpr-compliant services) and wouldn't use US services personally either, e.g. I would never explore health related topics chatgpt or gemini for obvious reasons.

Technically I've set it up in my office with llama.cpp and have exposed that (both chat interface and openai compatible api) with a simple wireguard tunnel behind nginx and http auth. Now I can use it everywhere. It's a small, quiet and pretty fast machine (compiling llama.cpp is around 20 seconds?), I quite like it.

Well a mac isn't really an alternative to a mac, or is it? ;)

Personally I'm not interested in having a mac as I work with linux. And yes, they outperform them, but only if you ignore the price. When comparing what you get for ~$2k, a Strix Halo is miles ahead.

Directly from Bosgame.com, for ~1.7k€ in December. I see it's at $2.2k / 1.9k€ now.

A Strix Halo with 128GB unified memory is less than $2k and the more suitable alternative to a mac. I'm pretty happy with my device (Bosgame M5).

The part you are leaving out is treating them solely as "illegals" means these people will avoid going to physicians to get their shots, because they would risk deportation.

The obvious solution for better health for all would be providing public and freely accessible locations for getting these shots, or mobile teams providing them at schools etc.

There is no fundamental right to a particular business model.

This wouldn't mean this type of content would disappear - for every single business producing such content there's a bunch of people doing the same for free. And then there's patreon et al., and funding for education etc.

Wero, the system the article is about, already is free for personal transfers and 0,15€ for commercial acounts (at least for my bank)

Many comments here assume this is about some hypothetical future project. Just to be clear: Wero is already live and in use.

I mean if you'd only care about the affiliate revenue, there probably are better niches to serve than citizens looking to protect themselves from tear gas.

You just click "buy" with another provider? They just host the model for money, nothing more.

To be clear: The models are open weights everyone can simply download, because many labs publish them as such. The providers in question are generic hosters. It's the same as if you would get some managed wordpress hosting somewhere.

OK but what if, staying in that analogy, you just have to wait 6-12 months to become as fast as Usain is right now?

To add a few more details: llama.ccp now both has a web ui out of the box that even supports model switching, and easy model file downloads from huggingface using the cli: '-hf name_of_model:the_quant_you_want'.

.gguf is the native format of llama.cpp and is widely used for quantized models (models with reduced float accuracy to reduce memory requirements).

llama.cpp is the actual engine running the llms, ollama is a wrapper around it.

"run" as in run locally? There's not much you can do with that little RAM.

If remote models are ok you could have a look at MiniMax M2.1 (minimax.io) or GLM from z.ai or Qwen3 Coder. You should be able to use all of these with your local openai app.

Looking at the data it seems that uk industrial electricity is the most expensive before taxes, is that not correct?

Wang explicitly said that support for Russia in the war is about diverting the US focus from China. If the US shows it doesn't care about Ukraine's future (and Wang told the truth), then I doubt Chinas support will stay as is for long. At most it will be a bargain in the coming EU-China negotiations.

Pronouncing this out loud I wonder whether the name has been chosen on purpose for the marketing effect: "Where's my bitchat"

The comments here seem to show a typical US-EU divide in perspectives, people talk past each other. Yes, mass-market low-margin consumer products (the US view) probably won't be produced much in the EU in the next few years.

But much of the electronics industry in the EU is B2B and centers around producing high-margin products where 10.000 units of a product would be huge.

The company I work for, for example, usually produces a few hundred units of a product before the next revision replaces it. Whether or not the PCB costs 20€ more or not really isn't that important if you only plan to sell 100 devices of it per year for 10k€ each. Aspects like quality and regulatory conformity are way more important here.

no it means u_sama has (correctly, IMO) observed that the US has made it very clear in the past year that they don't regard the EU as an ally. I mean the openly talk about annexing EU territory right now.

You have the Stored Communications Act, the Patriot Act, the Cloud Act, FISA, and so on. Most of which don't require warrants if it is about non-citizens. Which is then shared, through Five Eyes and similar agreements, with foreign countries, so a workaround for not needing warrants in the target country. This is what I commented about, data sharing with the services in my country. Of course Chinese intelligence agencies will share info with the Chinese police, but they don't share with police in the EU.

Again, the root problem of course is that there is any data to share in the first place.

That was kind of my point, I don't buy any of these surveillance appliances.

But answering as a hypthetical roomba owner: As I am from the EU, this new ownership would actually be better for me. The US already mandates spying with devices like these, and has been caught multiple times doing so already. It is also known to share info with the domestic services, the latter point not being true for China.

So the actual problem is the "feature" set of the vacuum cleaners, not the nationality of the new owners, right?

Effective corporate tax rates were between 12 and 14% for the US, with some of the biggest corporations bordering 0%.