Yeah, the RAM isn’t the problem if you have it, it’s the CPU/GPU cycles to do what could be done with simpler tools.

Economists just see a line going up.

That’s a lot of electronics waste. Estimates for 2025 e-waste into landfills was around 65 million tons, and it continues to rise each year. It’s not an either/or, we can complain about both, but the scale difference makes the first seem a bit less dramatic. We should do something about our throwaway society.

I had to look twice.

I still think O’Neill was probably right, we could do this if we decided we needed or wanted to bad enough. There’s issues to figure out, but that’s just science. I got hooked on the idea of space colonization when as a kid in the 70s reading an article in a National Geographic issue exploring the idea, using a fictional opener of someone writing back home about living on one. They used some of Davis’ works there.

I’m assuming you mean support ongoing for people learning to adapt as they go? Because it doesn’t have to be on Lemmy to find ways to migrate over and the differences, what works fine and what takes adjustment.

It would be an interesting community to start - one with rules that state the purpose is for people moving from Win11 to another OS only and not for any side topics, but anyone with knowledge can answer questions posed. Seems like it only has room to grow in need since Microsoft wants to tank their whole product line.

It’s a big chunk. I haven’t followed this news though, how much did it go up before?

If the amount isn’t in percentages, the title is probably clickbait. Especially if it’s in a dollar figure and “stock market plunges”. Sure it did.

I was with Netscape 1.0. Never left.

Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

Unsold food that is given away creates a liability if it causes problems. Food banks are the middle man in that respect, where they can toss things that aren’t going to stay good and provide for people with the rest. So here’s where government, regulation, and socialism comes into play. Companies should be encouraged with money to do something other than toss that food. Better systems should be in place to move that food to the food bank. Better regulation there to make sure that the food is being examined well enough. More places for all this to happen.

This ignores fixing the real problem, profit driven consumption, societies where people aren’t able to provide for themselves, etc.

So by itself you aren’t going to get unsold food to the needy, the risk and cost is too great for companies.

Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google’s efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn’t worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn’t be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it’s doable, just a PIA.

Classic D&D black dragons are acid breathing, so maybe that.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

It’s the best case scenario because then only the ones who causes this mess get punished. The realistic version is that we’re dragging most of the biosphere and millions of other species down with us, completely changing a stable Earth environment to something we’re not even sure about.

And we can blame his work in part for that acceleration, but in truth it was already heading that direction for decades, longer than most of us have been alive. It just took a while to see the evidence of damage, and when we did, it was covered up, turned into propaganda for profit, lied about, and mostly just shrugged as someone’s future problem. Well, the future is now, and not much has changed, except the environment. Humans are stupid.

It worked to some degree for SpaceX because to make new rockets you have to and will blow some up. That philosophy doesn’t work well for other things.

I agree, the Calvin version is better. However the message this time fits the asshole.

I know you need it asap, but the shipping part would probably be only a few days difference. The processing is what takes forever.

I honestly thought this post would be about whose face might appear on the passport, but the real concern is also a problem.

Nonsense, you can clearly see them from space.