Does Ubisoft have a room full of people dedicated to enforcing bad ideas or something?

Even if you boycott WD, the AI companies are spending 18x more than the entire consumer market.

This is where any sensible country would call for antitrust.

The externalities and consequences from this are going to fuck up the world economy, hard.

That it happened pnce is enough to never trust them again

It’s still a fantastic computer.

I use it as a server and it’s very very fast, especially threaded workflows, and IO is fast.

Just don’t buy it expecting to replace paid AI services. And don’t buy it for AI dev, on paper it should be good, but driver issues. DGX Spark is better if yo want an AI dev machine.

It would not be worth it as a replacement for Claude.

80% of my issue is that it’s AMD and their drivers are still awful. 20% is that the token generation speed very slow, especially compared to commercial models running on dedicated hardware. MOE models are fine, dense models are too slow for meaningful workflows. ComfyUI is decent, but I’m not seriously into image gen.

I have a lot of fun with it, but I have not been able to use it for any actual AI dev.

Yes

High RAM for MOE models, high VRAM for dense models, and the highest GPU memory bandwidth you can get.

For stable diffusion models (comfyui), you want high VRAM and bandwidth. Diffusion is a GPU heavy and memory intensive operation.

Software/driver support is very important for diffusion models and comfy UI, so your best experience will be Nvidia cards.

I think realistically you need 80gb+ of RAM for things like qwen image quants (40 for model, 20-40 for LORA adapters in ComfyUI to get output).

I run an 128gb AMD AI 395+ Max rig, qwen image takes 5-20 minutes per 720p qwen image result in ComfyUI. Batching offers an improvement, reducing iterations during prototyping makes a huge difference. I have not tested since the fall though, and the newer models are more efficient.

Because they’re releasing a new one?

They also support restic if you get annoyed at borg lock issues.

I need a home for my orphaned podman containers /s

I think this is better targeted to small and medium businesses.

if you run this as a NAS you could easily have all your budd s obsesses files in one place without needing complex networking.

That is so cool

You could buy a few of these, run them in RAID, and be able to store all of the mahority of businesses complete data on it.

All you need is an offsite backup and that solves so many problems that result in overpaying for cloud.

I feel like for 15 years or more Apple has been putting their chess pieces on the board just-so for gaming.

Then when you think they’ll do something they just keep shuffling the pieces about and never do anything with it.

I’ll probably buy one, the HTPC situation kinda sucks right now (thanks HDMI committee for fucking us all over)

The AI is doing what it was purpose designed and built to do.

The guilt is on Elon and xAI staff for building a sexual harassment machine.

I do run my own forgejo container repo, and I mirror containers I need there.

But I don’t backup my containers, just the data directories I mount to them.

That’s why I use them, but they are missing the in ramp to getting this working nicely for regular users.

E.g. how do I install neovim with toolbox and get Wayland clipboard working, without doing a bunch of manual work? It’s easy to add to my ostree, but that’s not really the way it should be.

I ended up making a bunch of scripts to manage this, but now I feel like I’m one step away from just using nixos.

Podman toolboxes, which layer a do gained over your user file system, allowing you to make toolbox specific changes to the system that only affect that toolbox.

I think it’s oringinally meant for development of desktop environments and OS features, but you can put most command line apps in them without much feauture breakage.

I am like Oprah yelling “you get a container, you get a container, Containers!!!” At my executables.

I create aliases using toolbox so I can run most utils easily and securely.

The hentai ai slop seems to make the front page, so it seems to be doing fine.

It’s in my will, but most of my days isn’t useful without need to use it or me.

My will has a page of important passwords, accounts, where important documents are kept.