An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.
It's certainly not common on unix systems.
Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated.
Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?
Or do they only have a suspicion?
This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.
f the child mentioned didn't give you consent to share details about them, don't.
I thought it was generally accepted that children under the age of 18yrs could not give legal "consent" to anything....?
Until the age of 18, for the most part legally, can't parents speak for and act for their children....?
What are the use cases for local AI models that actually require running on macOS? Surely a commodity x86 system is more appropriate?
Is there even the software support for LLMs on macOS?
Actually yes there is...
I'm still learning about this myself, but, from what I understand the M series of chips that Apple has come out with, with it having a CPU, GPU, and shared unified memory....it makes them uniquely capable of running local models on them...decently large models depending on how much you fork over for RAM. These M chips also have a special end unit for "intelligence processing" I think they call it.
The M5 chips just coming out look to be very good at this and it is speculated the M5 Ultra will be a high performance work horse.
Apple may have missed the mark for running AI, but the appear to have hit a home run on the hardware aspect of it.
I've seen demos on YouTube of someone hooking up like 4-5 Mac Studios that were maxed out M3 ultras I think and they were running extremely LARGE LLMs locally and getting cloud level numbers on them.
Of course these were like $10K each boxes.....but the level of model they were running would have cost my MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards.....
i believe there are OSX friendly tools like ollama that make downloading, and running LLMs quite easy....and of course there's the latest sensation...OpenClaw, that folks are buying up Mac Minis for....to have multiple agents running using models of your. Choice (commercial clound or local) of models and giving them persistent memory, and ability to do a lot of things for you...depending on how comfortable you are with giving said agents long leashes and capabilities....
Do look a bit on YouTube on these topics....it's actually quite interesting.
These M chips are already giving the home user the capability to use models almost as large and on the cutting edge as the big companies.....more than enough for most users.
Right now, there's nothing x86 that can really match them...at least not for the money.
Look for a gaming monitor with no WiFi option
Do they make these in 65" or larger?
If not, that's not really useful....no one wants to have everyone in the family and/or guests huddled around a 25" monitor in the corner of the living room you know....
Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.
Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).
They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.
I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.
I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.
The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.
It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.
And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.
They are NOT primarily focused on Firefox and have so much play money they squander it on whatever projects amuse them as is their legal right.
Their Google contract alone brings in about half a billion dollars. They're a highly "profitable" non-profit.
t depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.
I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.
Interesting, I've never received any such notices....but most of my stuff is one off buys...not repeated purchases from a single site...
I find a lot of sellers out there that still do not charge sales tax and some times...that makes it cheaper than Amazon...
The surprise is that didn't happen sooner.
Per buck you get more computing action with the small computer. -- R.W. Hamming
