Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check those out. Just as a personal nitpick I'll look for one of their models with USB-C as opposed to micro-USB to be a bit more future proof.
As a double check (or check before buying) you can search for your new GPU on https://linux-hardware.org/ to see if other users have it working without any issues. The hardware probe is also a handy tool to share your PC's specs if you should ever need to do so!
And then you have a trained model that requires vast amounts of energy per request, right? It doesn't stop at training.
You need obscene amounts GPU power to run the 'better' models within reasonable response times.
In comparison, I could game on my modest rig just fine, but I can't run a 22B model locally in any useful capacity while programming.
Sure, you could argue gaming is a waste of energy, but that doesn't mean we can't argue that it shouldn't have to cost boiling a shitload of eggs to ask AI how long a single one should. Or each time I start typing a line of code for that matter.
Cool! I'm glad more people are picking up Darktable! Ever since I switched the 'image processing workflow' to 'scene-referred (sigmoid)' my editing productivity skyrocketed. It's way more intuitive than the filmic RGB module IMHO. How are you finding Darktable?
With Railway it's the typical anticipation of strategy games that gets you. Just one more expansion of your network, one more resource to connect to a town, one more logistical puzzle to solve. It's way more intricate (in a good way) than just managing the budget and I've sunk hours and hours into some of those missions to figure them out.
Hmm, LibreOffice may not be the prettiest, but it works. For my own documents and presentations I use Typst nowadays. That's a blazing fast modern typesetting alternative to LaTeX. That being said, I can't stand WYSIWIG stuff but that might not be everybody's cup of tea.
I mostly run into stubborn manufacturers like Roland that only release their musical instrument companion apps for Mac/Win and leave Linux Digital Audio Workstations hanging.
Before I forget: many thanks for your response! It's nice to discuss this.
That distinction is important indeed. I could always add a notice to the README to underline that for potential users.
I'm going to make a dependency map of our own libs and license the language tools and their dependencies as LGPL such that they can be relatively freely embedded in other products. The post-processing and analysis libs/applications will then be licensed under the AGPL (dual licensing). We had other libraries under the GPL before, but in the current landscape it seems wise to cover the hosted/embedded variations as well.
Hmm, I don't know of many widespread (programming) languages with an AGPL-alike license, but would love to see examples! Wouldn't a language have a better chance of adoption with an easy to integrate licensed library?
As for some full featured visualization and analysis applications that accept the language's data format: those might be a good fit for AGPL as they generate valuable insights.
With non-core stuff I meant a tiny wrapper around some 2D data or some color palette management. I'm fine with MIT/Apache there and would consider LGPL to keep the landscape simpler.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check those out. Just as a personal nitpick I'll look for one of their models with USB-C as opposed to micro-USB to be a bit more future proof.