Rural island off the coast of a european country:

10g fiber for $65/mo (I don’t even think they cared, I asked for more and I think they made up a number).

House literally down the street from google in silicon valley:

Comcrap $100 for shit cable, I’m paying $250 for actual upload speed.

This country is ruled by the corrupt.

Google is pushing av1 because of patents, but 266 is just plain better tech, even if it’s harder to encode.

This same shit happened with 265 and vp9, and before that, and before that with vorbis/opus/aac.

They’ll come back because it’s a standard, and has higher quality.

Maybe this is the one time somehow av1 wins out on patents, but I’m encoding av1 and I’m really not impressed, it’s literally just dressed up hevc, maybe a 10% improvement max.

I’ve seen vvc and it’s really flexible, it shifts gears on a dime between high motion and deep detail, which is basically what your brain sees most, while av1 is actually kind of worse than hevc at that to me, it’s sluggish at the shifts, even if it is better overall.

Yeah, using the a750 the same.

Can’t wait for next Gen arc with vvc (x266) support.

Intel has excellent transcode, even in their igpus.

I use an arc750 specifically for transcode, av1 runs at ludicrous speeds, but don’t do an Nvidia, they kind of suck because they dont support vaapi, only nvenc/nvdec and vdpau.

Yeah, the ryzens are great too.

Full amd will treat you well, I’m running dual xeons and a Radeon pro with an arc 770 just for av1 encode right now.

Next round going full epyc.

Amd knocks Nvidia into a hat on Linux, the drivers are just too incredible.

With the exception of AI, where Nvidia is just plain the gold standard.

Intel is fine, it has exceptional video encoding and works.

Core i3 is fine, celeron can route, but you don’t have as much headroom, or room for firewall rules, etc. Recommend Intel x520 or mellanox cx3 or newer, though the cx2 is perfectly fine.

The bs about bsd being slower is maybe 15 years old at best?

Bsd is a monster for routing.

Run 25gbe routing, still can get by on your 4 core, but I throw some serious xeons at it anyway.

Meh, I like my udm.

I use some of the features, but mostly it just works, and it’s debian under the hood so I just ssh in and unfuck whatever needs unfucking.

It’s vastly closer to a hand-built setup than anything else, and you can spend less time worrying about security.

This is partisan hackery of the worst kind!

Clearly we are in orbit of a Kerr black hole, whose axial rotation is causing the light to shift according to frame dragging!

Leave it to the blues to assume everyone is moving towards them!!!

Ollama, llama3.2, deepcode and a bunch of others.

Using a GPU but man they’re picky, they mostly want Nvidia gpus.

Do NOT be afraid to run on the cpu. It’s slow, but for 1 user it’s actually mostly fine.

I mean why not, that worked out perfectly fine for bulldozer…

And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:

Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.

Not in comparison to… normal things like people and manufacturing.

And oil is oil, it’s self-powering. Many/most are powered off of the propane out-gassing to dedicated turbines.

Yeah, but Alaska uses dramatically less energy than… like, everywhere. Given that there are no people and the only industries are either oil or resources.

I’m not disagreeing, but if the energy is surplus, might as well make hydrogen, at least we don’t end up with pollution.

I mean, yeah, but also, that’s not really efficient or effective for burning.

We can make hydrogen everywhere, we can’t ‘make oil’.

Because calculators used to use paper, and clear entry basically invalidated the line.

This kept the same interface for the really old paper calculator users.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226285302528

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/busicom_141-pf.html the granddaddy of calculators, and the one the Intel 4004 processor was designed for.

All words are made up.