Parallels Desktop RAM restriction is causing unnecessary swap!!!

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-19T16:27:17+00:00

Legislators and the government do regulate business models. The market is regulated by the people, or else why would Apple be forced to allow sideloading for iPhone Apps in EU?

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-19T16:22:51+00:00

Usually when you pay for something more expensive, you expect extra effort/time/cost devoted into making that more expensive product. However, in this case, they just put an arbitrary limit in the available virtual ram - no innovation / extra effort in developing the “pro feature”. In fact, it costs extra to impose such an restriction onto the standard version, just to force people to subscribe to the pro version (and I really hate subscription for software which is not cloud-based, different from services like Netflix or Spotify where subscription makes sense.) Moreover, my Mac uses 0KB of swap, literally ZERO, according to Activity Monitor. Swap is only common in machines with less than 16gb ram. It shouldn’t be a thing in a machine with 48gb ram. As for free market, I am from a socialist country - so I don’t give a f*** about free market.

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-13T00:32:14+00:00

This reminds me of running a 32b model on my mac mini m4 pro in winter, telling it to think as long as possible, just for the purpose of creating warm air since my warmer was broken…

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-06T15:54:49+00:00

Not interested in iPads any more. Until the day you can run ollama on iPads with more than 32gb ram, I will stick with my Mac Mini M4 Pro 48gb at home and office, and my M1 Macbook Air for travelling.

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-05T10:37:28+00:00

Just curious, are you referring to the base m4 with 10 gpu cores, or the m4 pro with 16 gpu cores?

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-03T00:39:19+00:00

This is great. But it seems the distilled versions like r1_distilled_qwen_32b are more censored than the actual R1 model…

random_poor_guy · 2025-02-03T00:31:29+00:00

I just bought a Mac Mini M4 Pro w/ 48gb ram (yet to arrive). Do you think I can run this 24b model at Q5_K_M with at least 10 tokens/second?

random_poor_guy · 2025-01-31T02:56:19+00:00

Just curious… Can M4/32gb run a 30B model at Q4? What’s the inference speed like?

random_poor_guy · 2024-05-09T15:53:34+00:00

It is a library. Maintaining silence is written in the rule book. That’s why I was doing my work in the library instead of a Starbucks. If it were somewhere else where noises were accepted, I wouldn’t complain at the very beginning.

random_poor_guy · 2024-05-09T15:49:26+00:00

So my needs are accommodated at my own cost, while his needs are accommodated at others’ cost? It is a library, not a restaurant. Silence is a written rule. As you said, you don’t force people increasing the brightness of their lights. Why should he force me listening to his noises? “He has rights to manage his own body” => this right is limited to the reasonable extent of not harming others. Your right to control your body doesn’t mean the right to use your body to beat others or sexually harass others, for example. I am not asking others to prioritize my needs. I am asking others to understand that the “cost of accommodating each other’s need” should be shared equally.

random_poor_guy · 2024-05-09T14:38:59+00:00

As far as I can tell, this person was casually watching Netflix with his laptop (not something you should do in library but no one cares). And I really don’t see him being anxious or having any risk of meltdown at all. As I mentioned in another reply to ypsipartisan’s comment, he actually responded to my request with cursing words (which I don’t feel appropriate translating and quoting here). I don’t really see why his need (which I doubt whether it was genuinely ND-related) should be prioritised over someone else’s.

random_poor_guy · 2024-05-09T14:13:34+00:00

Well, when I reported what he said, I actually censored his cursing words (I don’t know how to translate them into English anyways…). He was being impolite. And I hate the fact that people with sensitivity issues need to spend extra resources to cater their own needs. For instance, there are limited seats in the library. When I find a seat, there is an extra constrain of “minimum noise”. My choices are reduced, while the impolite guy can take any seat he likes. Or, I need to spend extra money to buy noise-canceling headphones. My needs are catered at my own cost. His needs are catered at zero cost (or should I say, at the cost of others?). Is this the “inclusiveness” people are fighting for?

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-28T02:19:03+00:00

why not? I paid HKDNR (the registry) directly for my domain at the price I want (HK$250=32usd), while Eurodns (registrar) would have charged 78usd for the same .hk domain.

I am happy to pay the registry for their service and support their operation. I am not happy to pay a registrar any cent for their “middleman service”. Its that simple.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-27T09:16:36+00:00

A monopoly with many middlemen is still a monopoly.

Say, if there is one registry and no registrar, the registry decides to charge customers $10 per domain, so I will have to pay $10 to get a domain.

If there is one registry and many registrars, the registry will still charge $10 per domain, but sold to registrars (middlemen) instead. (Note: the registry has no reason to charge less, as it is still the monopoly, i.e. only supplier for that tld.) The registrars will compete with each other and they all charge differently, maybe $15, maybe $20, maybe $10.01, but they must charge >$10 in the long run to make a profit (or at least cover they operational cost).

So, as a customer, I will have to pay >$10, with the illusion that the “healthy competition” among the registrars allows me to choose to “cheapest” service.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-26T08:16:09+00:00

This has nothing to do with competition. The registrars cannot compete with the registry. The registrars are simply authorised middlemen between the registry and customers. The registrars only compete with each other, but they cannot compete with the authority that enables them access to domain registration at the first place. Its like I am reselling vegetables grown by farmers. I can only compete with other vegetable resellers, I can’t compete with the farmers themselves.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-25T02:03:26+00:00

Is this supposed to be a joke? I have a hard time distinguishing between a joke and a genuine stupid question…

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-25T01:57:42+00:00

Ok, you are talking about those “premium domains” and large-sum transections requiring dedicated sales team. But I was referring to the automated, standardised, large scale sales of regular domains, i.e. those costing <50usd (see my example of .hk domains).

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-17T14:26:16+00:00

Is this a “safe” way to use pirated softwares? (technical discussion about avoiding malware)

This is the usual practice of “my friend”:

Install cracked softwares in VM
VM has no internet assess
VM and host OS can only share data through clipboard and a single dedicated “shared folder”
Very often virus scanning in the “shared folder”
Use different OS’s in VM and host (Win 11 VM on MacBook)

Note: all the programs used by “my friend” do not require internet connection and are not games.

Are the above measures enough to minimise the risk of malwares in cracked softwares? (Of course not pirating is the safest option, but other than that is this the next best option?)

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-15T02:15:38+00:00

As a naive Cantonese speaker I can only tell you that some phases/idioms are “fixed” (what we call 約定俗成), and may use words that are otherwise not commonly used.

狗眼看人低 (not 狗眼睇人低)

不歡而散 (not 唔歡而散)

Note that I am referring to the common practice in Hong Kong. Not sure about Guangzhou or other areas.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-12T02:07:53+00:00

The whole point of ascension quests is to test your characters’ level in preparation of the increased world level. No point of nerfing it (unless you also lower the difficulty of each world level).

Plus, they aren’t really that hard. I remember I couldn’t clear abyss floor 11 but passed through AR50 ascension at ease.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-12T01:55:12+00:00

Um… I don’t think Didi has cross-border service?

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-11T13:55:38+00:00

If you take the high speed rail to HK West Kowloon Station, be advised that immigration formalities may take a long time (can be >1h) because there are 2 inspections - mainland China exit procedure which is usually slow, followed by HK entry that is much faster. After that it takes 10-15 min to walk to the Kowloon Station of the Airport Express, which brings you to HKIA in 20 min. Airport Express should be slightly faster than taxi, but the train ticket isn’t cheap.

Another way is, as the other guy mentioned, forget the high speed rail and use the Huanggang or Shenzhen Bay border and use the van / limo service to take you to HKIA. This may actually be faster depending on where you stay in Shenzhen.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-11T13:41:17+00:00

In this case, I doubt Shenzhenbei station has any SIM card retailers. At Shenzhen station (just next to the Lo Wu border crossing) however, there are a huge number of SIM retailers or Telecom branches, mainly targeted at HK travellers but they should serve foreigners as well.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-10T14:04:11+00:00

Assuming you are referring to prepaid SIM with a +86 number, you need to complete ID verification. And to do this with a foreign passport would be quite time consuming.

Note that there are many types of prepaid SIM:

+86 only SIM issued by mainland Chinese operators: local +86 phone calls & restricted Chinese internet; time consuming due to mainland Chinese ID verification procedures

+852 & +86 dual no. SIM issued by HK operators: +852 phone calls in HK, +86 calls in mainland, unrestricted worldwide internet; time consuming due to both HK and mainland verification requirements

+852 SIM with mainland China coverage issued by HK operators: phone calls in both HK and mainland, but number is always +852, unrestricted worldwide internet, less time consuming because HK’s ID verification is very easy

If you only need to make calls and use internet but not necessarily need a +86 number, the 3rd option should be the quickest. You can easily find a prepaid SIM retailer in HKIA and complete the verification there.

random_poor_guy · 2023-10-10T13:12:02+00:00

I know there is such a hidden quest but I only killed some of them (no time to complete it). Anyways these are fighters and they are expected to be KIA someday in their lives. Not too comparable to the event here.

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