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Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:55PM (#46025725)
While true, you do still technically get pop up ads occasionally when set that way.
Thanks for the info! Definitely much better than I expected.
Admittedly I've not tried running on system RAM often, but every time I've tried it's been abysmally slow (< 1 T/s) when I've tried on something like KoboldCPP or ollama. Is there any particular method required to run them faster? Or is it just "get faster RAM"? I fully admit my DDR3 system has quite slow RAM...
> That's small enough to run well on ~$5,000 of hardware...

Honestly curious where you got this number. Unless you're talking about extremely small quants. Even just a Q4 quant gguf is ~130GB. Am I missing out on a relatively cheap way to run models well that are this large?

I suppose you might be referring to a Mac Studio, but (while I don't have one to be a primary source of information) it seems like there is some argument to be made on whether they run models "well"?

Re:Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order on Thursday March 06, 2025 @10:28AM (#43281334)
I believe double-jeopardy laws wouldn't allow this, but I could be wrong.