Not necessarily. Luks can be used with TPM. Although I’ve never seen it in practice.

Most Linux distros offer a standard Luks with passphrase setup with just a single checkmark, but enabling TPM takes more work.

You can. Add tags/genres to your ignored list, and you won’t see any games marked with them.

I mean, kind of, yeah. If you just read the headline, then my comment does seem contradictory. ‘Some’ languages are definitely less optimal for LLMs than English.

But this is nothing new, and if you read about it before, you’d know there are many that are more optimal for LLMs, i.e., use fewer tokens for the exact same conversation content. Including languages that have just a fraction of the English language’s native speaker counts.

The article in general isn’t very good, because it provides just one concrete example - English vs Malayam. The rest is pretty much extrapolating that one case to all languages of the world.

It keeps reiterating that ‘Non-English languages’ are at a disadvantage, without any data to back this claim, other than a link to the study it’s about, which is 10x longer than the already lengthy article.

The study itself focuses on the difference between the best and worst case scenarios, which is perfectly fine, but does not exactly present whether LLMs work better with English or not.

When you realize English is such a terrible language that even AI can’t comprehend it.

For my fellow non-Americans, 49 feet is just under 15 meters.

I’m pretty sure we can all spot drones from 15 meters away with just our eyes and ears.

I’m willing* to bet $25B Meta won’t have to pay out anywhere close to $25B in the end.

*Willing, but not necessarily able. Terms and conditions apply.

I’m not American, and don’t even live anywhere close North America, but I strongly disagree with this. The most you can blame Americans for is willful blindness.

It’s been fairly clear for pretty much ever that the US is an empire, and regularly commits atrocities like genocide for profit.

In the past, some people were genuinely oblivious to this, for which I’m not sure you can blame them. But others knew it and did not even speak out. Even more suspected it, but did not investigate, because they had comfortable lives.

But then again - the same can be said about nations of Europe, Australia, even some Asian and African ones. Usually to a lesser extent, but still.

Americans aren’t any worse than people in other countries. Their country certainly is and needs to be destroyed, ideally without civilian casualties, but they’re not their country, despite quite a few being brainwashed into thinking they are.

Trickle-down, right?

Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?

Mostly Chinese companies that aren’t necessarily required to generate infinitely compounding profits just to continue existing.

Edit: Also third parties such as volunteers who fine tune models for specific purposes. Just like with all software - everyone can learn and contribute when it’s open source.

It’s also actually feasible for an individual person to get hardware to run it, like if you can one day get your hands on a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM.

From the article.

Apple announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio on August 26, 2026, with pre-orders open today and shipping on September 22. The headline number for local AI is 512GB of unified memory at 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, starting at $5,499.

https://modelfit.io/blog/mac-studio-m5-ultra-512gb-local-llm/

Can’t find any for sale, because it seems completely unavailable at the moment. That aside, I wouldn’t call a price point of $5500 USD ‘feasible’.

Already has.

Siri, set a reminder for when Intel and AMD collapse, and non-x86 PCs finally become reality.

The only place where you’ll ever notice any difference between RAM generations is the specs sheet. And even there it’s minor.

Call it supply and demand but I think that’s fucked up nm which way you look at it.

Intel and AMD - the entire x86 duopoly - is basically there specifically to ensure consumer PCs are as shit as possible, and to do everything in their power to slow down any meaningful technological progress.

I really don’t think charging EVs from regular outlets is at all realistic for the vast majority of people.

Unless you live on the ground floor, you’d have to drag a long ass cable through one of your windows. One of my neighbours actually does that, but just imagine everybody doing it. Not to mention the grid would most likely be unable to handle the load.

I’ve never seen public outlets, aside from USB ports in public transport, so I doubt it’s a thing.

Honestly sounds like a reasonable idea, and not just for EVs. The problem is that more and more countries are steadily moving away from public goods, so every building/complex would have to organize it individually.

Arguably, EVs work even better for places that don’t have infrastructure. Which is easier? Building a network of fuel stations (which need electricity) and keeping them supplied or putting in solar panels in people’s villages?

Absolutely, agreed. But keep in mind the fuel stations are already there, because most countries spent the last 150 years building them everywhere.

It’s an unfair comparison, of course, but it’s also impossible to make a fair one. As it stands, pretty much all developed and a lot of developing countries are already well connected when it comes to gas stations. It’s a lot cheaper and easier to keep them going, than it’d be to replace them all with EV equivalents.

Then there’s the question: does it really make sense to spend the next 50 years upgrading all that infrastructure? When, at least in Europe, public transport is already present everywhere and well developed?

Would it not be a whole lot easier and cheaper to just get rid of fuel stations, and keep expanding public transport, which emits dozens of times less CO2 per passenger than cars do?

Now, obviously, there are still uses for personal vehicles, even if public transport is great. It’s not a question which one to focus on exclusively, but which one to propritize.

Those will be able to add significant amounts of range each day using just the solar panels on the roof.

If this can be done well, then yeah, infrastructure problem kind of solved. Then you’d just need to wait for people to upgrade their existing cars, and afterwards all that gas infrastructure is basically redundant.

(most, maybe even nearly all, people have or can have a way to charge at home)

What? Most people where?

I live in a fairly rich European country, and EV chargers here practically don’t exist. Almost everyone lives in apartment buildings. If you’re lucky, yours will have 1 or 2 chargers in the underground parking lot or somewhere close by outside.

It’s even worse in Eastern and Southern Europe. Outside of North America, Europe, and China, EVs, as well as chargers for them, don’t exist at all.

Are those ‘most people’ you’re talking about actually just <5% of human population that happen to live in North America or Western Europe, and happen to be wealthy enough to afford that?

His Windows being unlicensed makes perfect sense. Why would he give money to Microsoft? In fact, why would you?

As for the PC - there are no Russian PCs, so he has to use something foreign. DELLs are very solid, and great for the price if you get them refurbished.

Not as solid as Lenovo, which also has considerably fewer American companies in its supply chain. But maybe they just got a good deal on a bunch of DELLs.

Linux doesn’t have to be private or secure. Just look at Ubuntu.

Personally I think this is a massive flop. Are there really people who want a [likely] more expensive and heavier MacBook Pro that runs Windows?

What I think most people need and want is just a small laptop with a moderately powered Snapdragon, just enough to browse the web, watch videos, and run lighter games.

Who is this for?