My last HP OfficeJet would drop network connection every few hours and had to be rebooted to reconnect. I had to go into settings and schedule the printer to reboot itself every 6 hours to prevent this.

I bought a Brother laser printer and haven't looked back.

It depends what you want to do. Minimum requirement is something able to multiply numbers and with (probably) about 3 terabytes of storage space.

You're probably actually going to want something that can at least hold those 50 billion parameters in some sort of reasonably fast memory. That's probably about 50 GB.

Or Slashdot will tell you you need 10 terabytes of the fastest VRAM and a few dozen of the very latest processors from Nvidia.

Give it a bit though. Whenever an open weight model is released there's a very active community that boils it down to something almost as good in a lot smaller space.

And I block XSS attacks. BUT and this is the problem, cloudflare is an XSS attack that I have to allow or they think I'm a bot. I have to allow cloudflare to run js. I should not have to do that. Really if I'm dealing with anything with money, I should be accessing one and only one site. The one I am passing financially sensitive data to.

Of course he'll get prosecuted, Perez. Not white, how'd he even get in the building?

I am talking about a standardized drop in compatible PACK, not the individual base cells.

Yes, and you pointed out yourself that nothing is really standardized like that across cars. When you go to your autoparts store and ask the guy for pretty much anything from transmission fluid to windshield wipers he asks you the make, model and year, then looks up the correct part because none of it is standardized.

Let me just go on rock auto and order a Tesla compatible battery pack - um nope.

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I don't expect an invasion. I forget who, maybe the Blackstone hedge fund guy, who was saying after a recent visit to China he expects an HK style reunification with Taiwan by 2028. Given the world today, Xi may be planning to take advantage of the turmoil of Trump to do it soon. I mean really what could the US say after attacking Iran for no reason, saying we are going to take over Greenland, and how can we forget, kidnapping the VZ pres, just off the top of my head. And Trump recently has talked about basically killing everyone inside Iran lately if they don't do what he wants. China looks downright compassionate.

You'd think except how'd that work out for the guest workers at Hyundai in AL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... No unless they are white, Trump really doesn't want you in the US. He particularly favors Eastern European women.

At this point in history I can't understand why anyone is still using HP printers. Brother is right there.

EV batteries can be made that way

They are. EV batteries are almost always assemblies of pretty standard cells, just like any other modern battery. The Tesla Model S and X use 18650s. That's the AA of the lithium ion world and is the same thing that's in those oh-so-proprietary power tool batteries, some laptops, battery banks, etc.

There's a burgeoning market of battery refurbishers who crack open old batteries and replace bad cells. Or you can just order a third party replacement, just like you can buy aftermarket brakes, tires, windshield wipers, whatever.

The game GPL is playing

There, you nailed it. And that game convinces people, the OP in particular, that something with fewer restrictions is "not free." Not "not as good" but specifically "not free."

This is precisely the same game that let Engels and Lenin convince everyone that a social system based on general anarchy plus a wee bit of democracy where absolutely required that was supposed to come about naturally ACTUALLY required authoritarianism and violent revolution because.

The OP claimed that the BSD license is "not free" and the GPL is.

Having freedom does not mean you can do anything you want.

Yes, it does. It's clearly impossible for everyone to be that free, so reality forces compromises, not redefinition. Not permitting something is not "more free."

You can explain a lot of things, in isolation, with classical physics. That doesn't mean that's how it works. The GP's comment is insightful: WTF is a "quantum material" if it's not literally everything?

I can beat that, the big freeze in TX had me out for 6 days. The entire time it was below freezing. There was a time where in the US outages were quite uncommon. Up until around 2000 I just don't remember it being a thing. Now as the article states, it is really more of a thing if you don't have outages. As just one example of how the wealthier are adapting, prior to the big freeze, I don't remember seeing nat gas home generators with transfer switches in my area. Now it is common. one on my block has the nat gas, one has solar with battery. I have some portables and so does a neighbor as cost is pretty high for the home sized ones. There must be a decent sized market for the home sized though as Generac seems to be doing very well. And prior to a couple years ago, I don't think I'd ever seen nationwide tv ads for whole house generators.

It is pretty inexcusable. Rates are up, quality is down. And not just long term quality, but short burps seem to be up too. There was a time I had a sun box at the house with a UPS, so was pretty aware of short glitches. Almost never happened. Now if a month goes by where I don't have to reset the microwave clock, it is a rare month. I did it a week ago. And I don't think it is AI that cause the enshitification of the grid initially. Although I expect it to get worse in the coming years as a result. So buckle up, welcome to the 3rd world.

What does the free project care about "the market?" What you mean is that the commercial project isn't forced to contribute back to the free one. I also don't like that idea, but claiming that forcing someone to do something they don't want to is "more free" is weird.