noir_lord
Getting it to do what I wanted with a traefik front router with cloudflared talking to arbitrary subdomain that is spun up and broadcast from the other project side was very painful in a "this could be more friendly" way.
It has been truly bulletproof though since then so that's almost enough to make me go reread all the docs.
Seems like a lot of them do, I only compare them within the same repo because there doesn't seem to be a very standard way of saying all the possible combinations/rearrangements.
The 5090 destroys both at 1792GB/s.
It's not really one thing with the nvidia cards best I can tell it's that they compounded incremental gains from software drivers, card kernels and optimization from been the primary choice (plus first mover advantage).
I didn't buy the XTX for AI purely gaming but it's a capable enough local card for running Qwen et al.
You can afford to play silly buggers when you have dumpster trucks of money backing up to your door every day see also: Meta.
That said he is the symptom not the disease and that we absolutely should take seriously.
Even if it doesn't come to pass the trajectory the US is on is possible enough we have to consider it.
What it won't be is as influential as it was for a long time, if ever.
The damage isn't a "Next President" problem, it's already a generational problem.
The international rules/trade based order was predicated on both sides agreeing that those were the rules, when one side unilaterally decides to tear it up and then demand the same advantages they had before they tore it up, the other has to respond, We can't ignore it and hope the problem goes away.
They chose to open Pandora's box on this one, the rest of us are just figuring out what that looks like going forwards.
I get somewhat annoyed when people blanket attack Whitehall (the UK Civil Service) universally i.e. the bureaucracy, yes they have problems but you don't run a country with 70 million people without some bureaucracy and ripping apart a system that has worked for centuries means throwing out a lot of good with the "bad".
Trump wading into the Falklands debate was catastrophically stupid (not that I would expect otherwise) and chopped the legs out from the people who'd support him/their style of politics here.
So was threatening Canada, that's how he ended up dealing with Carney which from his PoV was the much worse outcome.
Or more specifically, for those paying attention many of us have to come around to the belief that it doesn't really matter who comes after Trump, We need to not be as dependent on the Americans because we can simply no longer trust them not to do it again since they already did it twice.
The issue is simply more pressing for the Canadians because they share a land border, 70% of their trade is with the US and they have threatened annexation.
It's not less pressing really for us Europeans either, a lot of people/politicians have had to ask some awkward questions like "Just how exposed are we to the Americans if they continue on this path" and the answer is one they really don't like.
The world order as it was benefited the Americans and us in myriad ways but they seem to have decided they no long want things that way so it entirely comes down to what we do in response to that.
In some ways an unreliable ally is worse than an enemy because you can generally predict what your enemies intentions will be.
It seems like a lot of Americans get discomfited when you point this out even the ones who don't support Trump/the current US Gov but it's not personal, on the scale of countries it can't really be personal.
We simply can't trust them as a country or as a government as much as we previously could and I don't see that changing for the better in at least a generation if they even want it to.
They are a democracy, they don't have to get "everyone to go along with this" they just have to get the majority to go along with it.
That made me do a double take and then rewind (I watched the full speech in the background), that's a fairly seismic shift if followed through and will reshape the internet over the next few decades (go look at a current fibre map for global internet links, they pretty much all route through the US and land in the UK), having an alternative path through Canada into the UK/Europe is a big change.
In the short term, true.
In the long term, unknown but typically when you hold progress that way while other countries don't you at best end up becoming siloed while the rest of the world continues on without you.
So if you are happy on Cinnamon stay there (and it's Wayland support has caught up a lot).
They both do an excellent job of not causing me pain, working the way I want and respecting me as a user, that's what a DE should be, if I have to consider the DE more than in passing it's failing at been a DE.
Living is risk, every time I go to the shop for milk there is a non-zero chance I don't come back but the risk is so low I don't worry about it.
Multi-cloud in the same country (if that exists in the country and is far enough apart) maybe.
Our constant in/out wasn't great for the EU as a whole and it's now very hard to argue that pissing off your largest trading partner (by nearly a factor of 4 over the next one which is the US) was a catastrophic mistake.
Still that's democracy, even when it doesn't go the way you wanted.
Was/is the EU perfect, nope - it has all kinds of problems that are going to need addressing but was the UK in totality better off in the EU, yep.
That'll clean up a bunch of places where you end up having to passing in an anonymous arrow function just to move the argument where it needs to be.
Not to mention the god awful "sign here" on delivery tablets, I just make a random squiggle because it never works properly.
When people go on about a Golden Age, I'm the awkward one who asks "Golden for who exactly?"
The counter argument is of course maybe you don't need to understand our kind of intelligence to create a different kind and that could well be true but then how do you determine if a system is intelligent.
Unless the new system is intelligent enough to reason with us on our level in a way we can "see" is intelligent it becomes a philosophical argument.
We also have a natural inclination towards anthropomorphising systems that mirror us, this is already a problem with LLM's and people overestimating their capabilities or forming actual emotional attachment.
Then there are those of us who know more about how they work who in theory should be more immune to that and aren't.
I added some stuff to my agent.md to make it sound less human and to communicate more like the machine be it is because I find the faked emotion extremely jarring.
It can't be sorry, it's a set of numbers, it sits in the linguistic uncanny valley.
I have no issue with people using them to do things they could already do themselves as an efficiency thing and if they check and understand the result.
Unfortunately that seems to be the exception not the rule and the amount of "one shot slop" has increased dramatically, it's even affecting the modding communities for games.
This is gonna be a mess that is going to take time to figure out and then even more time to clean up.
It'll just take time to reach an agreement both sides can accept and it's in some ways simpler than something like the EU-Mercosur agreement since one "side" is a unified country rather that been two trading bloc's negotiating.
It's fascinating watching the world re-align so quickly (by diplomatic/negotiation standards).
The other democracies can no longer count on the US as a stable ally the way we have in the past (whether that trust was misplaced is a matter of perspective).
Simply put, you did it twice, We can't rely on them not doing it again.
Growing up on a diet of HHGTTG and Discworld just made me intrinsically distrust power in all it's forms.
I mean they are working around and on hardware controlled by a nearly 5 trillion market cap behemoth who has resources on the level of some nation states.
I'd be erring on the side of caution as well if they could hire that many lawyers.
You can also disable sorting of windows in the taskbar, disable combining them (eugh, I hate that so much) into a single entry (never understood that design choice on OSX or DE's that do it by default, don't hide my shit when there is space to show both).
It is complex for a UI in that there are lots of things you can tweak (spread around in the settings) but just because you can doesn't mean you have to of course.
I mostly just leave the defaults except for the above and rebinding a bunch of the window management, beyond that I strip it back to a start menu, taskbar and clock on both screens.
Mostly I like it because when I'm using it I never have to think about it, if I have to consider the DE (in that it's not just working the way I'd expect it to) then it's failing as a DE because it is getting in the way.
XFCE, Cinnamon and KDE all clear that bar (others may, they are just the last three I used going back well over a decade), Gnome hasn't since v2, KDE has defaults but it doesn't have "opinions" on how you should use it the same way as some of the others.
Switching to KDE from Cinnamon was a non-event after years of using Cinnamon, it took maybe half an hour to find the all the settings I wanted to make it work how I wanted.
It is extremely stable/polished (at least on Fedora) out the box, I want to use my machine to do things, playing with WM/DE's used to fascinate me and 25 years ago I had the inclination, now I just want boring software and a DE as the main interface to the computer should be boring in actual use.
TLDR: I want the classic WIMP desktop, I don't want to have to configure a bunch of half supported/unstable extensions to do it.
That said I use local only models purely because I don't want to use remote models, never having to think about token costs is worth it and no one is training anything on my data either.