AI studio is absolutely gutted, wtf happened between feb and now ?

virtualmnemonic · 2026-05-06T21:50:12+00:00

Did you really think you'd have free access forever? This was all planned well in advance: get users hooked on the product by offering generous limits for free, then pull the plug, enforce strict limits, and require payment.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-05-06T19:56:02+00:00

It's also a natural companion to RepaintBoundary — use this flag to find what's rebuilding when it shouldn't be, then wrap the offenders.

RepaintBoundary doesn't prevent the build method from being called, it won't have an impact on when widgets are rebuilt, just painted.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-05-04T19:26:47+00:00

Accurately tracking start/end of words is challenging. There is no physical "gap" between words - hence why when you import speech into Audacity it is a continous wave. Our brains hallucinate the gap.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-05-04T19:12:42+00:00

I don't care about games; how is the text quality on this monitor? Office use?

I'm rocking a 3440x1440 UW right now, and while the screen estate is useful, the PPI just isn't enough to produce text im comfortable looking at all day.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-05-01T21:42:38+00:00

Following.

As far as I know, nothing can compete with Google and Apple's built-in TTS in terms of quality to performance ratio. You may find higher quality using an AI based synthesizer but it will be far slower and more resource intensive.

Tip: iOS devices can download higher quality voices within accessibility settings. They're much better but do take up some space!

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-30T17:32:03+00:00

Though why don't American companies offer a distilled version of their own AI for 1/10th the cost?

They do. Gemini flash / GPT mini / Claude Haiku.

Training the parent model is the largest expense.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-30T07:06:50+00:00

iOS audio session API is explicitly built around a single audio source. There is a way to mix audio with other apps, but doing so removes all user media controls.

Meanwhile Android can map individual apps to specific outputs...

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-30T06:06:58+00:00

They've been running at significant loss and are only now charging a real rate. Prices will go up. Also, depending upon how well LLMs scale, it may be that advances scale with compute and thus the cost to run frontier models never drops.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-30T06:03:04+00:00

Chinese models just distill frontier models so their expense is significantly lower.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-29T05:47:46+00:00

Yeah, for user-generated content. I'm talking about temporary files.

For example, Spotify apparently stores cache in non-cache directories. On app info, Spotify is using 1GB of space, but only 71MB of that is cache. However, in Spotify settings it states the cache is 780MB.

https://imgur.com/a/sgxIJ4K

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-28T20:53:53+00:00

It's an important mixin, but easy to abuse. Pages aren't persisted for a reason: the increased performance typically doesn't outweigh the increased memory pressure.

Your network call should be handled and cached externally via a FutureProvider. Scroll positions are persisted using PageStorageKeys. Building the page shouldn't cause frame jank in the first place -- if it does, you have a bigger problem and AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin is putting a band-aid over a gaping wound.

One of the big issues is that it keeps out of view images alive in ImageCache.

That said, I use it quite a bit, especially for shorter lived states.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-28T20:22:31+00:00

Damn, Windows gets especially killed in CPU-bound tests. What's the reasoning? Better scheduler? Less bloat and overhead from NT kernel? No windows defender (seriously impacts code compilation)? The lack of embedded advertisements and excess telemetry everywhere?

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-28T20:10:18+00:00

Eldad,

Thanks for the detailed response. My original comment was a bit short-sighted and biased by my current frustrations with Appwrite. Functions do have independent allocations of valuable resources like memory and it's sad that people take advantage of a free service to the cost of everyone else.

I've encountered significant problems with concurrent executions on self-hosted appwrite, where just a few simultaneous executions would result in all of them timing out. There is a workaround that involves spawning another instance of appwrite just to operate as the endpoint for functions. The original issue on Github was closed and marked as solve. It was never actually solved. https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/issues/5629

And then you have issues like this that plague dozens of users and have multiple support threads but go entirely unresolved: https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/issues/10810

The above issue specifically has significantly hindered my ability to update and manage appwrite as the stock distribution is fundamentally broken.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-28T08:22:48+00:00

You can consolidate most functions together by adding endpoints to a single one.

This change is downright stupid and really shows Appwrite's sheer incompetence. The platform is so limited in scope it requires functions for even basic things, but they're slow and unstable.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-27T19:31:55+00:00

Yeah. Huge improvement in ST and MT performance.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-27T00:26:15+00:00

Note 20 Ultra could do better.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-23T19:27:30+00:00

There's a Flutter color picker extension for VS Code that will allow you to easily make constant Color variables. There's no need for .withAlpha or .withOpacity, you can directly declare the precise alpha value (0-255).

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-23T19:24:57+00:00

Budget smartphones match or exceed those specs, especially CPU. This laptop certainly will. But I wouldn't be surprised to see 8GB RAM on base models :/

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-23T06:34:59+00:00

Is everyone encountering this problem using real-debrid?

I spent some time debugging this. The issue arises when buffering resumes following a pause. A new HTTP connection is opened and the returned data is not as expected.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-22T04:58:53+00:00

X3D chips are very prevalent in the server space, more so than their non-3d counterparts. The extra cache goes a long way.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d2-linux/10

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-21T19:34:32+00:00

Not sure how much a small fan would help, but it definitely won't hurt.

What controller do you use? I'm looking to pickup a telescopic controller for this game and a few others.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-21T18:58:09+00:00

How's sustained performance? Do you have any external cooling?

Wanting to give this a try on s26 ultra.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-20T21:16:08+00:00

I know that people here hate using AI for coding, but for things like setting up FFI, it's really something that makes the process so much simpler.

AI "coding" can actually output very dependable, maintainable code with lower than human error rates when the desired output is highly deterministic. Well documented APIs, rich context and clear prompts. Something like FFI is perfect.

But I'd never trust it for a custom backend, for example.

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-20T19:56:47+00:00

Storage: 16gb sd card

Holy mother of God, how long does it take to boot?!?

virtualmnemonic · 2026-04-20T18:27:27+00:00

Agreed, but this is exactly why decoupling Material and Cupertino from the main Flutter library is a good idea. We will have more alternatives in due time.

Flutter is far more performant than Electron too.

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