Well if you’re downloading, copying or creating large models that are several hundred GBs you’re going to want a normal drive. SMRs have a small staging area and once that is full it has to start re-ordering the data on the platters. Once your drive is in the process of re-ordering your write speeds are going to make it look like a failing floppy disk. I had a large file copy operation (>1TB) to a RAID pool of SMRs take like 16 hours. And I also found out that my backup drive is SMR because it took several days to do a full backup from scratch, which caused me to look up its detailed specs.

It always starts out looking great but eventually the staging area will get full and then your CPU will spend most of its time twiddling its thumbs until a chunk of staging area becomes available again; Repeat until operation is done. The greatness of Shitty Magnetic Recording.

If you want to know what recording method your drive uses, you grab the model number from:

# smartctl -a /dev/YOURDRIVE | grep "Device Model"

and look that up in a search engine. It should either lead you to a Data sheet or the manufacturers website where they list the specifications.

If durable and large SSDs were more affordable where I am I’d slowly replace all my spinning rust. But right now HDDs are overall still the better option for me, at least for mass storage.

You must be new to FLOSS, because this isn’t a real secret. In fact, he’s pretty much known for being an asshole. He can still be pretty blunt these days, but he was a lot worse in the past. Also why does it matter? I genuinely don’t understand the point of this post.

(and an HDD that size costs almost nothing now)

Sure, but you really have to watch out what kind of hard drives you’re buying. There are a lot of SMR drives out there that are sold as regular drives and the only way to tell is to look through their data sheets. I find that “regular” HDDs (CMR/PMR) cost more now than SMR drives of similar capacity and spindle speed (probably because nobody wants them lol).

DW. in like two years from now, companies will start throwing out similar machines. Just keep an eye on second-hand markets and dumpsters.

Anyone who’s been following Kernel development for a while knows that big tech has been all over Linux for a while, and I’d count the relatively recent inclusion of rust in the Kernel as a major shift in policy. Linux has sponsors, not donators. Also since the Linux Foundation and most of their infrastructure is based in burgerland, they have to follow US law.

I’m not trying to be a doomer, but Linux is far less autonomous than people like to think. However, since it’s FOSS anyone can just modify it and rip out the junk. And it’s still the only FOSS Unix-like that supports most modern Hardware, which probably makes up most of its value.

I feel like the people who don’t look at PKGBUILDs and install hooks and just hit Y on everything are the same people who spam “Next” and “Accept” on Windows Installers from random websites.

I don’t use Gentoo but I still frequent the Gentoo Wiki and pick apart packages because it’s such a great resource for OpenRC.

There is a project I’ve discovered recently which is similar to GPT4All, except you can throw multiple GPUs at the workloads (and yes it can use Vulkan): https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

I haven’t messed much with it but it builds and works fine on Linux. The only thing I don’t like is that the source tree has a bunch of Windows binaries in it.

But most importantly, it won’t work in the end. These scraping tech companies have much deeper pockets and can use specialized hardware that is much more efficient at solving these challenges than a normal web browser.

A lot of people don’t seem to be able to comprehend this. Even the most basic Server Hardware that these companies have access to is many times more powerful than the best Gaming PC you can get right now. And if things get too slow they can always just spin up more nodes, which is trivial to them. If anything, they could use this as an excuse to justify higher production costs, which would make resulting datasets and models more valuable.

If this PoW crap becomes widespread it will only make the Internet more shitty and less usable for the average person in the long term. I despise the idea of running completely arbitrary computations just so some Web Admin somewhere can be relieved to know that the CPU spikes they see coming from their shitty NodeJS/Python Framework that generates all the HTML+CSS on-the-fly, does a couple of roundtrips and adds tens of lines of log on every single request, are maybe, hopefully caused by a real human and not a sophisticated web crawler.

My theory is people like to glaze Anubis because it’s linked to the general “Anti-AI” sentiment now (thanks to tech journalism), and also probably because its mascot character is an anime girl and the Developer/CEO of Techaro is a streamer/vtuber.

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Exactly. All modern CPUs are so standardized that there is little reason to store all the data in ASCII text. It’s so much faster and less complicated to just keep the raw binary on disk.

The newest PC I own is from 2014. The latest CPU µArch I know is Haswell. Zen Four? Sapphire Rapids? Funny fantasy names.

It annoys me though how newer video cards only come with DP and HDMI ports anymore. I’m still one of those people who actively use DVI and see no reason to get rid of my VGA/DVI Monitors, so I’m forced to deal with adapters. Fucking Capitalists.

NVK doesn’t support older cards though last time I checked. Pretty funny how I ended up with a stack of paperweights because NVidia dropped support and Nouveau/NVK can’t get their shit together and instead of focusing on existing hardware they rather keep chasing the “latest and greatest”.

AI? Look, I helped a friend fix a new install. It wasn’t Linux fault, it was a setting in the bios that needed to be changed. But the AI had them trying all sorts of things that were unrelated, and was never going to help. Use with a grain of salt.

I have the same experience but sometimes it was even worse; Sometimes the AI would confidently recommend doing things that might lead to breakage. Personally I recommend against using AI to learn Linux. It’s just not worth it and will only give new users a false impression of how things work on Linux. People are much better off reading documentation (actual documentation, not SEO slop on random websites) or asking for help in forums.

It has a green lock icon with the word “Private” next to it so it’s fine bro.

arch-meson is a small wrapper script for meson:

$ cat /usr/bin/arch-meson
#!/bin/bash -ex
# Highly opinionated wrapper for Arch Linux packaging

exec meson setup \
  --prefix        /usr \
  --libexecdir    lib \
  --sbindir       bin \
  --buildtype     plain \
  --auto-features enabled \
  --wrap-mode     nodownload \
  -D              b_pie=true \
  -D              python.bytecompile=1 \
  "$@"

You’ll have to upload the image for that to work.

It’s his Pixelfed Account on the pixelfed.social Instance: https://pixelfed.social/Yogthos

I stand by what I said in that other thread the other day: I have yet to find LLMs be a useful tool. This whole thing is hilarious but at the same time I feel bad for the devs who have to deal with this crap.

LLMs are hot garbage and my opinion will only change once I can describe a problem to it and it actually understands and provides in-depth guidance related to my problem without any bullshit or false/outdated information. I want an LLM that might ask me for more information on something if it thinks it needs it.

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