Exactly. When i was younger i had this western digital thing that let me watch videos off a hard drive on my CRT TV. I pirated everything. Didnt have cable. This is pre streaming.

I reached a point in my life where i was making enough money that a $20 sub was worth the conveniance.

There is this tipping point where it becomes more cost effective to bring it inhouse, even with the staffing requirements. For small to medium sized buinesses though cloud all the way.

Depends on if you even need a better model though. Can you run a good enough model is what matters for the most part.

Gemma 4 e2b is pretty impressive for its size.

This area of computer is improving very fast. I truely belive the future of this is locally installed open models

How much ram and what gpu do you have?

The wet dream for big tech has been to get people to pay subscription fees for compute, just like businesses do for cloud hosting. They tried with Stadia to get people to play games hosted in the cloud, but that was never going to fly.

With the compute demands of AI (which is comparable to a AAA game except for the largest models), they dont want to make the same mistake and let you have the compute. They see this as an oppurtunity for subscription fees for the earth.

The fact that we cant get hardware for a reasonable price is an added bonus to this plan.

All of this only works of everyone subscribes to this shit. Businesses will, because its just easier to manage it. Consumers though should not give in. If you want to run an agent, use a small local model.

The best thing that can be done is to make local open source agents and models approachable for regular users. Right now, they arent.

They are just trying to undo the damage they did when they went around telling everyone they wont have a job anymore.

Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else

I remember kids in the 90s wished they lived in the 60s and 70s. There are always people who aint feeling their lives who think a past time would auit them better

Its even messier. Nintendo is a customer of the companies that produce the discrete parts, and paid tarriffs on them. Then they sell to a retailed at wholesale who sells to the consumer. The retailer may or may not also have paid a tarrif on the finished product. So what waa the final retail proce composed of? How much of it was Nintendo’s? How much of it was… Say… Walmart? Who is on the hook for it for the consumer?

What a fucking mess.

Thats literally every home in the city ezcept maybe some studios

Its only slop if you accept slop. What i mean is that it cna and does generate perfectly fine code. It also generates code that is ok, but needs a human touch. It also generates verbose garbage.

Its only slop if you approve the slop. Its perfectly fine to let it generate the boilerplate of what you want, and tweak it. If its prompted well enough, you get less slop.

Ultimately I am with Linus on this one. The genie is out of the bottle. Use it responsibly.

Good oped, but doesnt read that way to me. Its clear she has made some voting mistakes, but the current reality in congress is some level compromise needs to happen to get their support for other votes.

Personally, for me, my standards are simply “does not take aipac money” and “does not have a corporate benefactor”. Until money in politics is dealt with sufficiently, i cant afford perfection. And even when its dealt with, there is noone on earth who will vote the exact same way i would pther than myself.

What makes you say that?

Im sorry but thats just not normal unless you are neurodivergent. We’re not robots. Honestly something is wrong if you dont even have mirror facial expressions.

I get dissasociating from a rude customer, but i ja e gotten that stare from a simple ass “hey hows it goin”.