This is mild racism.

What are they "conserving"?

I just got Qwen 3.8 Flash Next running locally. It's damn good on an older machine with a newer GPU. Local LLMs should scare them the most.

These aren't serious people.

It's already out of control. This is self defense.

I'm starting to think consoles are cooked. The massive jumps in technology between console generations have turned into small incremental steps. The game quality has dropped (independent games and a few others are exceptions). PC's used to be slow to boot and load a game vs consoles and also required updates to download, but now PCs are quick and updates are mostly automatic. Consoles used to be nice to just turn on and play without thinking about all that other stuff, yet now they require downloads and updates as well. Loading times aren't much better either. Consoles used to also be very cheap compared to PCs, but now with the "next gen" being around $1000 the price difference isn't that huge anymore - especially when you factor in modular updates that can be done to a PC to cheaply extend it's life. One of the last hold outs for consoles were physical games and now they're taking that away too.

They should release consoles when there's a significant leap in hardware that devs are waiting to take advantage of. The last few console releases have been boring. Don't get me started on not only the lack of games but the lack of new types of games. Too many remakes and remasters demanding high prices.

When I can't play a new game I want to play, I'll upgrade. This varies. My last computer i7 920 with a GTX 470 lasted me for a long time -- around 9 years. I have a Ryzen 2700x with a 3060TI that I built in 2018 and added the newer GPU in 2021. I'll probably upgrade next year so around 7-8 years. Before that I had a Pentium 4, Pentium 2, Pentium 1 so those are roughly 4 years between but progress was more impactful back then.
Averaging things out -- I'd say 6-7 years between major builds.

I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!

I was the kid my friends' dads would call to fix the PC (because SOMEHOW - "A hacker put a virus on there"), before their wives got back home. Made some nice extra cash!

If she looks at the case and frees these people, it's an admission of guilt. If she doesn't do anything, she was made aware of the issue before congress and will look even worse later on.

Something about this image gave me temporary Dyslexia.

I read them in my wrestling announcer voice.

Aren't they recognized as a terrorist group vs a government? I'm guessing legitimacy is the main issue here.

.5 (so far)

Yep, I didn't play often, but that one got me to never play again.

Interesting background on the word. Thanks for sharing..I don't think that's it, because wouldn't they be for hard working people then? Like the people doing the actual hard labor on the farms?

Why does the prez look like crap and his hand is rotting? Why do we see turtles in Congress freezing and needing a reboot?

It doesn't. Use Strata to run it. Choose the recommended settings it gives you during the install. People can run it with 12GB of VRAM and 32GB of system RAM. It partially loads the most common parts of the model I'm VRAM and swaps from RAM when needed. Rarely it needs to grab from the SSD, but it's swapping while processing so it doesn't seem slow at all. I get around 60-80 tokens per second on average. 16GB VRAM and 48GB RAM.

I get where you are coming from. I thought it would run slow AF as well before I tried it. 😄

Damn you're old! Me too. I lived many of these memories even down to the tabs! 🎸