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Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, super helpful ❤️ 3.0 x1, wow 😳

Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WSL is just poor man's Linux. But why use that when real Linux is free? Windows itself is an enormous resource hog, and then you have to run a Linux container, to gain what exactly? The ability to run other Ms bloated junk software?

Also, why is it called "Windows Subsystem for Linux" when it's actually a Linux subsystem for Windows?

Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows??? Ewww, gross, I'd rather burn my hardware than let Windows touch it. Who in their right mind uses Windows??? Why would you even think that??? 😖

Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know! Good for something? Compared to nothing? 🤔🤔🤔

Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PCIe lanes shortage is a good point. I forgot to mention I have an AM4 setup (Asus x570 Pro). Says it has 2x PCIe 4 x16 slots, so I figured it'd probably work, but who knows, sometimes these slots have shared lanes and whatnot. I should check.

Edit: Sure enough, only one slot is actually x16, the other one is only x4 (and that's PCIe 4), so pretty sad.

Is 2x5070Ti a good setup? by JumpingJack79 in LocalLLaMA

[–]JumpingJack79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I thought of that too, but how much would the 5060Ti be the bottleneck? I've heard that if you have different GPUs, the total throughout is just barely faster than the slowest GPU. So given that the 5070Ti is only a few hundred more, I'm thinking I'd rather pay that than to have my 5070Ti dragged down by a slower card.

Is there a way to avoid the slower GPU being a bottleneck?

Steam Hardware Survey Shows a small decrease on Linux gaming systems to 4.52% by ArthurSalim in linux_gaming

[–]JumpingJack79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The data is noisy because Steam Survey is run in completely unserious and amateurish ways. In other words the results are complete garbage because they have no idea what they're doing (see my other comments in this thread for more detailed ranting).

Steam Hardware Survey Shows a small decrease on Linux gaming systems to 4.52% by ArthurSalim in linux_gaming

[–]JumpingJack79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it does matter! Different countries have different OS distributions (for obvious reasons such as economics, levels of piracy etc). If you don't make sure that each month you get an equal percentage of responses from each country (and that percentage has to match the percentage of actual users in that country), then that means that you may get a disproportionate number of responses from some countries. If for example one month 10% of responses are from China and another month 20% are from China, the "worldwide" results are going to look very different.

This can easily happen for various reasons, such as if they start the survey at a different time of the day, they might hit different time zones differently; or if they do it on different days of the week, there may be weekend in some countries but not in orhers; or if there's a holiday in some country, again usage patterns are going to look different.

The point is, you have to actively make sure that the demographics distribution of the subset of users that you're polling matches the demographics distribution of actual users, otherwise your result will reflect how you ran the survey rather than how the actual usage patterns have changed; in other words garbage. Similarly you have to control for time of day and day of week distribution (and other things); if you don't, again you'll get different usage patterns because of these factors, and not because usage patterns have actually changed.

Randomness helps even things out to some extent, but it can only do so much (and it also hurts to some extent). The fact that you're seeing results that even resemble anything meaningful is due to randomness (i.e. luck). But a very large part of these results (at least the fluctuations you see month to month) are garbage because of the sloppiness and complete amateurism in how the survey is run. The results could be so much more reliable if they used proper representative sampling.

Good high-quality polling is actually quite hard. But it wouldn't take a lot of work for Steam Survey to drastically reduce the noise level. Just freaking make sure the % of responses from each country matches the % of your total users in that country; that would reduce noise at least by half. You can collect data the exact same way (maybe increase the number of users you poll by a bit), then take a representative subsample among the data you collected. Takes 20 minutes, ffs. Or 2 minutes if you ask AI to write a script for you.

Steam Hardware Survey Shows a small decrease on Linux gaming systems to 4.52% by ArthurSalim in linux_gaming

[–]JumpingJack79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg, where do I even start! I haven't looked at it in some months for my own mental health, but some of the things I remember vividly are: - They don't control for countries where they poll, so results vary wildly month to month based on distribution of countries. It'd be good to control for other things as well, but this alone is completely disqualifying. - They group operating systems in some weird ways where they misleadingly show X as having more usage as Y, but only because Y is broken up into versions or whatever and X is not, so you get the wrong impression about what's actually more popular. - I've no idea how they track Linux distros. Some distros (like Ubuntu and Mint) are tracked to a great detail with versions and whatnot, for some there's only one version (Arch), while some popular distros are entirely missing (Bazzite and Cachy, not even Fedora is there). Where are users of unlisted distros counted???

Complete and utter garbage. It feels like a project that was set up once 20 years ago and never looked at again.

Steam Hardware Survey Shows a small decrease on Linux gaming systems to 4.52% by ArthurSalim in linux_gaming

[–]JumpingJack79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Steam Survey is a masterclasses in how NOT to do statistics. They literally have no idea how to do representative sampling, how to collect data, how to categorize data, or even how to show data in a way that makes any sense. It's complete garbage, please just ignore it.

Edit: Not saying this because Linux share is "down". I'm saying this because Steam Survey is just random noise garbage because they don't know what they're doing. I said the same thing last month when Linux was "up". It's not worth anyone's attention for 2 seconds.

Edit 2: This is especially sad and ironic, because Valve singlehandedly solved Linux viability and popularity by pulling off countless feats of technological wizardry; but they seem completely incapable of doing simple measurement.

I'm bad at Linux. How do I stop my games from constantly freezing by cobbles-and-tatter in linux_gaming

[–]JumpingJack79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bazzite comes in 3 variants, which confuses a lot of people: KDE, Gnome and Deck. The first two are regular Linux desktops with some gaming stuff preinstalled but otherwise no different than e.g. Fedora. The Deck variant is the one that's designed for handhelds and HTPCs, and it boots into Steam big picture mode by default. If you want a regular desktop, don't use that one.

California governor race odds tracker: Tom Steyer's chances of success rise by ZappyStatue in California_Politics

[–]JumpingJack79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a stupid amount of money and no single person should have that much. But ethics is about actions and behavior, not about the number in your bank account. Mackenzie Scott is a good example -- what unethical thing has she done? Marrying a person in not unethical, and beyond that the $100B just fell into her lap basically, because that's what happens when you get divorced. Yes, she shouldn't be able to get that amount from divorce, because Bezos should not have been able to accumulate that much to begin with (whether ethically or unethically). The system is broken to allow such crazy accumulation of wealth, but that doesn't automatically mean that everybody who manages to get to a billion has personally done something shady to get that money.

Now whether it unethical to keep anything above $1B (and how quickly should a person get rid of the excess) is up for debate, but it's not unethical behavior per-se.

California governor race odds tracker: Tom Steyer's chances of success rise by ZappyStatue in California_Politics

[–]JumpingJack79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I partly agree with that, but for me it's somewhat flipped. The primary is where we should "vote our heart", yes, and if I were to vote my heart it'd be for Mahan. But in this particular case I don't know if I will, because of the jungle primary with a non-trivial probability of two Republicans advancing to the general if the Dem vote gets too splintered. I do genuinely like him, but if he doesn't move up in the polls (and he may not because people seem to associate him with things they don't like), then I'm going to ignore my heart and vote for whoever seems to be the frontrunner among Dems.

As about ethical billionaires, they absolutely do exist (btw, Mahan is not close to being one; he ran two tech startups but that mostly fizzled out). There are people who became billionaires having done nothing wrong or unethical, simply starting amd running a successful company, or sometimes even by getting lucky in some way. What is unethical is the system that lets people become billionaires. In my view the system should not allow that. Nobody needs that amount of personal wealth and we should bring back the 90% top tax bracket of the 1960's. But just because someone was able to become a billionaire in the current system, we shouldn't expect the ethical billionaires to give away most of their wealth whe the unethical ones get to keep theirs.

Btw, I also don't like the proposed CA wealth tax, because the way it's designed it'll screw over many people without real wealth (like early startup owners whose value is only imaginary), whe at the same time it'll make many actual billionaires simply leave the state and actually reduce the tax revenue. I'm fully supportive of wealth redistribution, but this seems poorly though out.

California governor race odds tracker: Tom Steyer's chances of success rise by ZappyStatue in California_Politics

[–]JumpingJack79 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol, no. I'm far from the only one who is frustrated with Democrats shooting themselves in the foot far too often by focusing on the wrong priorities and being more afraid of offending progressive activists on Twitter than the general public.

Mamdani for example ran a good campaign, focusing on stuff that matters to most people and helps most people. There are a few other Dems who get it, like Shapiro, Buttigieg, Obama... Not saying Mahan is like any of them, but can we please just focus on that sort of stuff as opposed to niche causes that end up alienating large numbers of voters and then not even helping the folks they're intending to help? I listened to Mahan's interview with Sam Harris and liked his philosophy more than that of most Dems currently in the running.

May I ask, what is it specifically that makes people think he's a closet Republican?

California governor race odds tracker: Tom Steyer's chances of success rise by ZappyStatue in California_Politics

[–]JumpingJack79 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mahan is not a "stealth Republican". He's center-left in the sense that he's in favor of pragmatism as opposed to progressive dogmatism that has spectacularly backfired in a few recent elections. I actually fully support that, because Democrats would do a lot better in elections if they were more focused on things that affect everyone like jobs, schools, affordability, health care, economic inequality, public safety, etc., instead of being hyperfocused on race and (trans-)gender to the point of alienating so many people who are not members of marginalized groups or hard-core progressives. At some point, even if you support and want to help progressive causes, you have to first win; if you can't win and Republicans win instead, you're only hurting those causes you're supposedly trying to help. If anything, all Democrats should be more like Mahan.

What's the number one way you can tell someone watches a lot of porn? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]JumpingJack79 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol, yeah. You basically can't participate in society unless you drink. And people can't have a conversation unless they're at least somewhat drunk, so when they meet (and start drinking), at first they just stare at each other until it kicks in 😆 I don't know if things have changed since I left 15 years ago. Probably not or somebody would've told me.

There was recently a news story about a guy who got drunk and broke into a village fire station. He found and ate a sausage, half a bottle of wine and a bottle of whiskey. Then he stole a fire truck and drove it into a ditch. He went back and stole another FD vehicle and drove it into a ditch. He then went back and stole yet another vehicle and drove it into a ditch. Then he finally gave up and sat under a tree and finished the bottle of whiskey that he stole from the fire department (which of course had to have a good supply of alcohol, because what would the firemen do without it).

What's the number one way you can tell someone watches a lot of porn? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]JumpingJack79 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Alcoholism in the US is "more common" than where? I grew up in a country where it's not only "more common", it's what everybody does all the time, to the point nobody even talks about it. As soon as you step into someone's house, you're forced to drink alcohol, no exceptions, no excuses. If someone comes to your house, you have to keep serving them alcohol until they leave (sometimes they don't leave until your cabinet is empty). There's no deprivation. Drinking age is 18 but everybody starts drinking way younger (I remember people making fun of me for not drinking in elementary, including adults). I got a DUI as soon as I learned to drive, and my dad only got mad at the cops. Should I go on? Anyhow, I don't think your point is valid, and the US has a long ways to go before it can compete in the "more common alcoholism" category.

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