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nearly daily Apex player moving to Linux full time again now that many more games work with it (knowing Apex no longer works). It will suck, but fuck microsoft and good riddance EA.

With your first sentence, I can say you’re wrong.

except i’m not wrong. the model they ran is 4 orders of magnitude smaller than even the smallest “mini” models that are generally available, see TinyLlama1.1B [1] or Phi-3 3.8B mini [2] to compare against. Most “mini” models range from 1 to about 10 Billion parameters, which makes running them incredibly inefficient on older devices.

That doesn’t mean it can’t run it. It just means you can’t imagine that.

but I can imagine it. in fact, I could have told you it would have needed a significantly smaller model in order to run at an adequate pace on older hardware. it’s not at all a mystery, its a known factor. i think it’s absolutely cool that they did it, but lets not pretend its more than what it is - a modern version of running Doom on non-standard hardware.

[1] https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-step-50K-105b

[2] https://ollama.com/library/phi3:3.8b-mini-128k-instruct-q5_0

[3] https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/

but the hardware is not capable. it’s running a miniscule custom 260k LLM and the “claim to fame” is that it wasn’t slow. great? we already know tiny models are fast, they’re just not as accurate and perform worse than larger models, all they did was make an even smaller than normal model. this is akin to getting Doom to run on anything with a CPU, while cool and impressive, it doesn’t do much for anyone other than being an exercise in doing something because you can.

you can follow hashtags. I follow #opensource and a few other interests and I’ve found some interesting stuff you don’t generally see in other places. but yes, the format is completely different and I find lemmy allows for better discussion than Mastodon.

Checkout Notesnook. I’ve tried most of the ones you’ve listed and have been really enjoying how well it works compared to the competition considering its end-to-end encrypted.

A few features:

• Clients and server are open source.
• End-to-end encrypted note syncing.
• You can publish public notes.
• You can publish privates notes that require a password to view.
• You can self-host the sync server.
• You can self-host the publishing server.
• Full offline mode.
• At rest encryption.
• Multi-platform clients with feature parity (Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Web).
• Most if not all of the general features you’d expect from a notes taking application.

One thing I really like about the project is how open they are about what they’re doing, why they’re doing it and what the future holds. It’s been great seeing their roadmap (https://notesnook.com/roadmap/) and seeing promised features land with new ones being added, and I’ve only been using it for less than a year now!

they think because he inherited a recovering economy, that he himself had some major part in it.

Happens more than we’d like to believe. The mans dad wasn’t actually even dead in the case linked below. The policy will continue to make these mistakes until the consequences of their failures comes directly out of their pay.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-01/fontana-police-coerced-false-murder-confession-with-lies

anything specific you can call out for those of us who have zero interest in moving to another centralized platform?