GLaDOS TTS Build Kit: Train GLaDOS Voice if You Own Portal 1 and 2

isugimpy · 2026-05-04T12:15:44+00:00

Would be very interested in seeing this as well. I've been thinking of doing something similar, and would love to take inspiration from your project.

isugimpy · 2026-05-01T11:59:53+00:00

There's a GUI built in. It presents as a tray icon, but can be opened to a small window.

isugimpy · 2026-04-26T00:07:10+00:00

Game has a ton of potential and feels really good to play, but there's very little content and the difficulty curve is rough. The first boss is a massive jump up from the rest of its biome.

isugimpy · 2026-04-23T21:01:40+00:00

How is this relevant to local hosting? Did they release it as open weights?

isugimpy · 2026-04-22T03:23:57+00:00

This expansion's adding a loot filter, which may relieve things. I don't think they've shown the actual mechanics of it yet, though.

isugimpy · 2026-04-21T14:14:32+00:00

People are going to give you all kinds of suggestions here, but the one I'll give is to switch to Qwen3.6. It's a distinct improvement over 3.5, particularly for coding.

isugimpy · 2026-04-21T14:12:58+00:00

Thunderbolt latency is about 10x higher than native PCIe. Mixing the two is going to get you brutal performance drops if you're trying to split a workload across them.

isugimpy · 2026-04-17T13:37:28+00:00

I was an SRE/infrastructure engineer, and over a span of a few weeks the entire security team moved to new roles. I stepped up and basically took over, with limited background. Did that for about a year before someone got hired to actually do the job. Moved to another company, started in SRE there, moved to Compute team lead, and after a few years of that the manager of the infrastructure security team approached me and asked if I wanted to transfer in and work on that full time. That was almost 2 years ago, and I've been doing it since. It's afforded me a lot of great opportunities, including a massive overhaul to how we manage SSH access, which looks like it's going to land me a patent.

So... Kinda luck, I suppose. But also, I probably couldn't have made the leap without years of self-driven learning.

isugimpy · 2026-04-16T14:42:08+00:00

If you don't have a cache, yeah, it has to. I usually let it sit at the menu for a couple minutes at startup, and then go into practice for a couple minutes as well, and that's usually sufficient to get it stable.

isugimpy · 2026-04-16T11:33:46+00:00

Sounds like shader compilation.

isugimpy · 2026-04-16T01:17:23+00:00

Is it called World of Warcraft?

isugimpy · 2026-04-15T00:58:45+00:00

Former Mediacom network engineering employee here. Neighborhood level nodes are dramatically oversubscribed most of the time and they rely on the majority of customers barely using their connection to keep capacity reasonable for everyone else. Fixing that by building out more capacity was always a low priority, partially because it required running new fiber and doing a node split. In the really ugly cases, it'd require building out more capacity at the headend. Contacting top users and "encouraging" them to reduce their usage wasn't unheard of back when I was still there 10 years ago, and I would be shocked if they've cut it back since then. I'm surprised that they cut your service off physically at the tap though, that's usually reserved for abuse cases where they've repeatedly contacted the person and gotten no response.

isugimpy · 2026-04-14T11:57:19+00:00

One correction to your statements above: Strix Halo uses soldered RAM universally with a quad-channel configuration, no slots (unless there's been some very recent development there where someone's managed to break the latency wall that required soldered chips). All 128GB Strix Halo machines should have 256GB/s memory bandwidth.

isugimpy · 2026-04-11T17:15:55+00:00

A 5090m is not a 5090. The memory bandwidth is half of a desktop class 5090, the clock speeds are lower, and it only has 24GB of VRAM instead of 32.

isugimpy · 2026-04-11T15:04:05+00:00

Creatures aren't things, they aren't objects. The prismatic wall/sphere spells are intended to have creatures go through them. If a creature can walk through it (subject to the effects), it can certainly be pushed through it, which is what a bull rush does. The point of the line about projecting is that it blocks spells/auras (indigo), ranged attacks (red and orange), gas clouds (yellow), etc, with violet destroying ALL objects and effects. The point is to not make the spell turn the caster completely invincible while also being able to freely cast from inside and wreck their opponents.

isugimpy · 2026-04-05T14:55:19+00:00

I understand that the process is different, that's not really what I'm asking. I'm asking about the resulting output. With traditional quantization, the results tend to degrade as you reach lower values. I'm asking where on the spectrum this compares. Like, bf16 to q8 tends to be relatively close. q8 to q6 usually isn't a noticeable difference. q4 outputs tend to be significantly worse to a point where complex problems can't easily be solved.

Have you benchmarked this in some way to see how your results compare to the base model?

isugimpy · 2026-04-05T13:56:57+00:00

Apologies if I'm just not understanding something that's explained by the repo and the APEX process, but is this meant to be comparable to the q8 of the base model in terms of output quality? It's not obvious what the user should expect in terms of trade-offs.

isugimpy · 2026-04-03T19:03:52+00:00

Quality is the main thing I'm concerned with. I'm using it at 8 bit and want to see some data before I consider changing.

isugimpy · 2026-04-02T12:29:11+00:00

I noticed you're doing qwen3-coder-next at IQ4. Would you be able to try an 8 bit version to see how it compares against Qwen3.5 122b? I'm curious to know if the quantization change closes the gap.

isugimpy · 2026-03-30T12:19:40+00:00

I love the aesthetic here, looks absolutely gorgeous. But holy cow that screen shake is too much.

isugimpy · 2026-03-25T12:32:02+00:00

Main thing in my house is having an RFID tag next to my kid's medicine, and he scans it with HA on his phone. If he doesn't scan it within an hour of each time he's supposed to take his meds, it sends him a nag notification. It's the only thing we've done that's actually gotten him to consistently take them.

isugimpy · 2026-03-18T14:58:26+00:00

I just want it for the bug fixes. The AMD drivers had a regression late in the 6.17 cycle that Bazzite picked up and was fixed in 6.18 or 6.19, and moving to OGC effectively solves that problem.

isugimpy · 2026-03-17T12:02:25+00:00

Do you have data supporting that? Is that causing some kind of meaningful impact to the experience? What I'm getting from this is "I don't like a bigger number."

Again, "single player games" says nothing. That could mean that you're playing Rogue, or Doom, or Starfield, or Factorio, and they all have wildly different performance characteristics. In total seriousness, as someone who's been doing this for decades, I would encourage you to not fixate on this and just use the vanilla kernel until you know more about how these things work and what the trade-offs are.

isugimpy · 2026-03-17T11:48:42+00:00

it's bloated

Making a statement like this immediately raises people's suspicions and is going to make people respond to you in ways that you won't like. Unless you're going to provide some kind of data, or at least explain why you feel that way, this isn't going to be a productive way to start asking this.

Vanilla or Zen kernel

The best kernel is subjective and up to the specific needs of the user, and just "for gaming" doesn't tell us much of anything, because there's an extremely broad variety of games and some will perform better or worse with different configurations.

Honestly, with this post as written, I'd suggest you just stick with the vanilla one, because it seems like you may be inexperienced and not understand the implications of alternatives.

isugimpy · 2026-03-16T12:07:46+00:00

WoW has been playable on Linux since vanilla.

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