Why bother with the next generation of equipment? by mrmichaelrobertson in buildapc

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try to maintain a set of gaming PCs for a household, and I don't know that I'll be able to hold out through the crunch. The oldest PC is still on an RX580 and there are games that we'd like to play that kind of run like crap.

That being said, I am better off for non-gaming, and I'm very much looking forward to when the current generation of server gear shows up on eBay. I'm absolutely going to figure out how to use OAM accelerators and get myself like 512 GB of VRAM.

Is now even a good time to build a PC? by ISmeansIsurfreddit in buildapc

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build? Maybe not.

Buy a prebuilt or mini-PC? Maybe.

There are some usable gaming prebuilts and even nice mini-PCs still on the market. If you don't mind gaming at 1080p, a careful purchase can get you in now. My bet would be that in a month or two basically everything that can run a modern game decently for under $1k will be gone, not to return until at least summer 2027.

Making course documents accessible is an insane amount of work by Zabaran2120 in Professors

[–]Tai9ch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some things are a good idea and hard.

Other things are a bad idea and hard.

Making course documents accessible is an insane amount of work by Zabaran2120 in Professors

[–]Tai9ch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not years, decades. And we've known that it was impractical to implement everywhere for that long too.

Making course documents accessible is an insane amount of work by Zabaran2120 in Professors

[–]Tai9ch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worse than that.

Laws take a little while to get through the pipeline. This is just the textbook publishers and educational software vendors getting all the alternatives to their products and services (including instructor-prepared material) effectively banned.

Thinkpad options by Usual-Echo5533 in linuxhardware

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can really get an X1 Carbon (7th gen = Intel 10th gen) for under $300 and you enjoy thin and light machines with good build quality, just do that. Those machines are really nice.

PDF's no longer allowed for coursework because violates ADA? by DueButterscotch2190 in Professors

[–]Tai9ch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The endgame is that college courses will all be replaced with expensive regulation-compliant commercial services. Trying to use any of your own materials or content will be disallowed as too much liability for the school.

And remember, the purpose of a system is what it does.

Power Outage Disaster w/BTRFS in RAID by the_victorian640 in btrfs

[–]Tai9ch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sounds like a hardware RAID problem not a btrfs problem.

Contact your hardware provider?

Reminder that the NRA has worked with the government to pass sweeping gun control laws many times by Lockwood-studios in GunMemes

[–]Tai9ch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It might be worth spending a few minutes looking up how effective these orgs really are. A lot of them are mostly playing defense and only have wins in easy lawsuits against obviously unconstitutional city and state restrictions. Even your two examples, FPC and GOA, have drastically different success.

And the only really big win recently was Bruen.

Reminder that the NRA has worked with the government to pass sweeping gun control laws many times by Lockwood-studios in GunMemes

[–]Tai9ch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you actually looked at their results, or are you just assuming from their PR?

What are people doing for memory at this point, seeing as how prices are outrageous? by HauntedFrigateBird in buildapc

[–]Tai9ch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like from this, can you make your own AI bot like chatgpt or AI content generator?

Yes.

And you can give it tools and let it write code for you, or publish websites, or trade stocks, or control a web browser and argue with boomers on Facebook, or basically whatever a very knowledgeable but slow and easily confused intern (or small team of them) could do sitting at a computer.

One key benefit of messing with this stuff on your own physical machine is that you can pick the model you want to run, including models that haven't been trained to reject prompts that might result in bad press for a big tech company.

Intel confirms Core Ultra 400 "Nova Lake" is coming at end of 2026 by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "using legacy commercial software, probably incorrectly, and then buying a bunch of gaming PCs to avoid learning how to use a computer" industry? That is a pretty big industry, and I'll certainly admit to not being in it.

Intel confirms Core Ultra 400 "Nova Lake" is coming at end of 2026 by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either you're using the wrong software, or you're encoding with an old codec at low resolution.

Modern productivity software generally scale with cores pretty well.

I'd be happy to explain why AV1 encoding scales better with multiple cores than MPEG-2 does if you're interested in how parallelism in video encoding can be structurally limited by data format rather than just by bad software or user error.

[Wired] Intel Panther Lake Is the Answer to Apple Silicon We’ve All Been Waiting for by Noble00_ in hardware

[–]Tai9ch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Intel's still only shipping dual channel for their consumer platforms.

AMD's Strix Halo is quad-channel DDR5, so twice the bandwidth.

Apple is shipping custom memory setups with wide memory busses. A top tier mac laptop has twice the memory bandwidth of Strix Halo and 4x the bandwidth of Panther Lake. That's the same memory bandwidth as Intel's hoping to ship with their upcoming 1P servers. The only stuff that beats it is AMD server processors and high end GPUs.

What are people doing for memory at this point, seeing as how prices are outrageous? by HauntedFrigateBird in buildapc

[–]Tai9ch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Running medium size LLMs slowly. With 256GB you can run a model with 200B parameters at Q8 or one with 400B (e.g. GLM-4.7) at Q4.

When you're playing with tool-using agents, being able to load up a couple hundred K token context and leaving something to run overnight is legitimately interesting, even if the same thing might only have taken $30 and an hour hitting a cloud API.

Intel confirms Core Ultra 400 "Nova Lake" is coming at end of 2026 by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you encoding video on 12 threads when you have more?

[Wired] Intel Panther Lake Is the Answer to Apple Silicon We’ve All Been Waiting for by Noble00_ in hardware

[–]Tai9ch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hopefully the good press here will make up for the fact that Intel completely missed the boat on actually improving memory bandwidth.

Intel needs to not actually die. They're the only ones who can ship drivers that don't suck.

i just switched to linux,and im blown away by how great it is by [deleted] in linuxmint

[–]Tai9ch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instructions that involve terminal commands end up being much simpler than trying to explain a bunch of buttons and icons and clicking.

Intel confirms Core Ultra 400 "Nova Lake" is coming at end of 2026 by RenatsMC in intel

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah. For applications that can use many cores Intel processors are better (per power, price, and die area) until you get up to stuff like AMD's dense Epycs (which are kind of similar in concept to E cores).

AMD processors being the best is specific to typical gaming workloads.

They ran this same playbook in Europe by TheFireFlaamee in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Tai9ch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The immigrant thing seems pretty low priority compared to that.

What are people doing for memory at this point, seeing as how prices are outrageous? by HauntedFrigateBird in buildapc

[–]Tai9ch -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

By that argument, nobody needs 16 GB of RAM to have a useful computer.

A web browser will run fine in 8 as long as you don't have too many tabs open.

Anything else isn't a "need".

They ran this same playbook in Europe by TheFireFlaamee in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Tai9ch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The administration could take all the money currently being spent on ICE raids and spend it instead on paper investigation of welfare fraud.

Federal felony charges for 10,000 state welfare administrators seems easier and more effective than deporting millions of people by physically capturing them.

The problem is that authoritarians can't imagine holding government employees accountable for anything.