Which means that it's basically a non-event. Why deal with this vendor-locked garbage when it's trivial to set up the toolchain and buy one of those Nvidia boxes? Or one of those AMD Ryzen AI Halo things?

Yeah, it's still Nvidia, but if you're going to spend thousands on hardware, they've always been a good bet for still being around in a few years, and still giving a shit about you after a few years.

They're still making Shield TV Pro software updates like 7 years later. Buying into some locked up piece of shit when the bubble is about to burst might be the icing on the stupidity cake.

So...

$ ollama pull [model]
$ ip link set eth0 down
$ ollama run [model]

Airgapping is a thing. Find out if it runs or not. Only takes a few minutes to download a model and give it a go.

This is unreasonable. You are basically saying "Neither candidate fits my perfect mold of a broad spectrum of issues, so I'll vote for nobody and pretend that whatever happens isn't my fault." Sure, you might think you're not responsible, but you still have to live with the results, don't you? Be an adult, and recognize that sometimes there are nothing but bad choices, and you have to pick the least bad choice. If you take a pass, you still get to potentially live with the worst choice when you and a lot of people like you could have made the difference.

Hey, I'm in Oregon which is basically exactly the same. This is why the electoral college is ridiculous, but it's the rules we're playing by. Whining about what could be doesn't change what is.

So you have a problem understanding that *stop digging* is the first step of getting out of a really deep fucking hole? See my first point. Much less awful sounds really fucking nice right now.

And hiding behind that is why nothing happens. Yes, an individual only makes a tiny, minute change. But there's no reason that individual, and every other individual out there can't at least give it a fucking go other than lack of motivation, or pure selfishness.

Because no measurements of ocean temperature is ever done from orbit, is it?

Surely there is no advantage to measuring and observing weather phenomena from a geostationary satellite, is there?

Your sarcasm is weak shit, identified by your stunning ignorance.

Total US population in 2024: 340,110,988
Total registered US voters in 2024: ~174m
Total votes cast in 2024: 155,201,157

Your "statistic" is stupid, because there are 166 million people here that are not registered to vote, or cannot register to vote (age, not a citizen, etc.).

Therefore, of the 174m registered voters, only 155.2m of them could bother. 75,019,230 went to Harris, 77,303,568 went to Trump. He won ~44% of registered voters, where Harris got ~43%. 13% couldn't bother.

The problem is that 13%. Their apathy is causing all the fucking problems we have today.

"a few years" ??

The first formal international consensus on human-induced climate change was widely recognized in 1995 with the IPCC Second Assessment Report, which concluded that the "balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on the global climate".

It's now 2026. My math shows that as being 31 years of hemming and hawing, skepticism, data denial, craven political games, and selfishness.

Seems your kids are going to have to bear the brunt of all your excuse making.

Yay, more bad-faith bullshit excuses.

The US's carbon output is not regulated based on if someone else produces more carbon than the US. The US can still reduce their footprint regardless of what others in the world are doing.

The US's energy consumption is not regulated based on the energy consumption of other disconnected countries. The US can still increase energy efficiency regardless of what others in the world are doing.

This is true for every country. Stop making excuses for shitty behavior.

FYI It also works at smaller scale:
The efficiency of your own choices is not predicated on some coal burner in Australia operating, or not.

It's whataboutism bullshit, meant to redirect attention from something you don't want to talk about, to other bad behavior in an attempt to justify your own bad behavior.

Stop behaving badly - it's just easier and doesn't make you look stupid.

Oh well if it's just too big a problem, then let's just mash our foot on the accelerator and drive it off the cliff!

You sound like a moron that doesn't understand that if you need to slow a car down and the brakes aren't working, that you can at least take your fucking foot off the accelerator.

Stop making fucking excuses for being a shitty, selfish asshole.

Ok, how about the 80s, 90s, 00s, last decade, or this one?

What are the excuses for continually ignoring the problem even when it's obviously a problem, and obviously getting bigger and more drastic to fix it with each year that passes?

People alive in the 70s continued being blissfully ignorant and regressive right until today, when the excuse shifts to any of the below:
- I'm only one person, what difference can I make?!
- I'm already in my 70s (or 80s) so it's someone else's problem because I won't be here when the real damage hits!
- It's too late for me to make a meaningful difference, so I'll just keep making the fucking problem worse!

It's the same basic logical failure as NIMBYism - you want the benefit, but don't want to put in any effort or risk. It's selfish horseshit that just causes a negative feedback loop to make the problem bigger while stopping any actual solutions from happening.

And, by the way, you are exhibiting this exact behavior as well with your bad faith false dichotomy bullshit. There are many varied available solutions between "running my life on coal and petrol like it's 1972" and "weaving my own clothes and persisting off berries and shit because I can't possibly use a single watt of electricity for the rest of my life"

What's wrong with using a package manager that has always been reliable on macOS?

Local AI and ARM64 run exactly the same in Linux as on macOS: install ollama, pull a model, tune a modelfile, create your tuned model, start throwing queries at it.

Literally the only problem Apple is suffering from is memory bandwidth and token rate from not having as much processing grunt as a discrete RTX variant.

Because nobody ever scrubbed a launch for weather before? Happens all the time.

And yes, lighting on the moon is a problem. If you don't have sunlight, you have NO light. And no heat - in permanently shaded craters you're below -200C.

Seems like that might be a harsh operating environment for anything that moves, and any chemical processes in a battery.

It goes basically like this at the Federal courts level:

1. trial court in a US District Court
2. appellate court (3 judge panel)
3. En Banc review in front of the entire appellate court
4. SCOTUS certiori request / grant (if your case is refused, you're done)
5. SCOTUS hearings / decision (last possible stop on the train)

At any point, a higher court can send the thing back to a lower court to answer questions, find new facts, review with directions from the superior court, etc.

Here's your explanation:
1. Citizens United is an abomination, foisted upon the country by a conservative court majority that feels money == speech, because they know lots of people with shitloads of money that agree with them
2. This court similarly has made untold amounts of money from unknown sources perfectly fine in politics. Who gets the biggest advantage? Republicans.
3. Musk already tried to buy an election (Wisconsin supreme court), and lost bigger than if he had kept his nose out of it. And now he's facing election law violations for his efforts. Money isn't everything in politics when the electorate is pissed off - for another example, see the Florida Democratic Primary where the guy who had name recognition and spent 5x his opponent lost to a SOCIALIST. In Florida!

For some of the contestants (and observers) it seems to be a practical safety feature