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  • So AI is whatever makes you right and me wrong, basically? Of course the ones responsible are the people building products based on AI. Nobody is arguing LLMs themselves are evil. What I'm talking about are massive datacenters built overly fast so that they need to use evaporative cooling and micro-turbines is an utterly irresponsible use of that technology. It's like rushing to build a faster car than China and so you don't install brakes and your cars start killing everyone on the streets. Of course a car isn't evil, it's the people irresponsibly designing them. AI tech is constantly doing propaganda fear mongering that if you don't use their product RIGHT NOW - you're getting left behind. If you don't integrate them in your business RIGHT NOW, you're gonna get overrun by competition. And the product is not nearly as reliable as they push it and not nearly as powerful as they claim. It's a universal tool that is inefficient at any specific, specialized task. In fact, it's painfully INEFFICIENT. But you and I wouldn't know it, because nobody is publishing exactly how much it costs to run and how much they are subsidizing the use of it. The technology is useful, even revolutionary, but the way it's overwhelmingly being used right now is bullshit. This way is not sustainable, not profitable and will end up costing the entire world. That's what's gonna happen. The technology will stick and people will find best uses for it and start paying attention about its use. But I doubt it will survive in this current form.

  • Dude, USA affects all of the world already in a very significant way. Western world especially. While the decay of American imperialism is something a lot of us would like to see, it will, in the short term affect everyone negatively. The USA will not go out without a fight. Already, people across the world suffer because of it. It is precisely because of the USA and their economy. Economy, which is undoubtedly, by their own accounts, dominated by the AI tech industry. So, although indirectly, people outside the USA are negatively impacted by the AI. Not to mention direct impact it has (military literally being driven by AI).

  • This might be thermistor losing contact with the block or wires losing contact. It can also be the heater wires losing contact somewhere. To diagnose, you can try and wiggle the wires when you preheat the hotend and watch the temps. Then you will know what needs replacing. I once had a thermistor that was faulty, I replaced it, the problem went away.

  • Are you me? Cause I have exactly the same setup. Navidrome, tailscale, the whole thing. I also use strawberry. It's OK but a bit basic. I recently tried Nocturne for desktop, looks promising, but still somewhat buggy.

  • Hahah :(

    Why is everywhere you look all of the leadership doubling down on idiocy? All of the western world, not just usa.

  • IMO, qwen3.6 a3b is smarter seeming but gets stuck way too often, Gemma 4 is stupider, but doesn't get stuck almost at all. I'm trying to find middle ground, but so far - no luck.

  • I do, but I am becoming increasingly more disappointed as time goes on. Not just self hosted, llms in general. They sometimes help, but they mislead so many times and waste time that you don't even notice. I think that's the trap. When you succeed at a task, you become impressed but don't notice how many times it failed doing a simple task. And as soon as you scratch the surface, you see how you would have done it differently and perhaps in a better way. Even just googling is bad. It does research for you, but it has no critical thinking and can't decide what is better from the results it gets (other than google ranking) so it often leads you to think it did as good as you would, when it's nowhere near as good. Every time I did the googling myself after it did, I did it much better. And I mean MUCH better. Ask it to find the app, it misses the most important ones, hallucinates a bunch, for ex. I found this to be the case with frontier models as well.

    Self hosting has its benefits, but seeing how the ecosystem looks right now, concluding this is a huge bubble is inevitable. It reminds me of crypto so much. It looks rich and plentiful, but as soon as you dig a mm under the surface - nobody has tested it, it's got a critical bug, it is overblown and there are issues with no response. No docs, no info, no nothing. For the biggest thing in technology in history, it is awfully hollow. I don't mean it in a condescending way, in fact community is enthusiastic and very helpful, it's just that it doesn't live up to what most would expect.

    A caveat I need to mention is I have not used it for coding - I have an irrational fear and resistance towards it, being a programmer. I just won't touch it, even if it means the end of my career. I'm trying to be grown-up about it, but so far, I dont want to use it, for good and bad reasons.

  • This looks promising, I'll be sure to give it a try! Is it better compared to Qwen3.6 in terms of getting stuck? So far, qwen is borderline unusable for me, for chatting/research, as it frequently gets stuck. Gemma4 is a lot more stable, but a lot worse, in my opinion so far. North mini looks promising if it can solve looping for me and be a bit smarter than Gemma.

  • Finally. They are probably the last Europe car maker that still has no dedicated bev platform and have always had compromised multifuel solutions with even their latest cars. This not only limits the optimizations you can make for manufacturing, performance and passenger space/comfort, but it also signals to the potential buyers you are not committed long term and are not serious about the tech. And some half a year or so ago - they even said they are gonna pull back on the bev side of business. Only now that the price of fuel and China offerings are knocking at the door, are they changing the story. Are the top management of all the companies becoming imbeciles over night? As a guy that is currently driving a stellantis car (well, they weren't stellantis back then) - fuck you, I don't believe you and won't consider your cars for a future ev, unless you trully commit and then some.

  • I have a model with 64GB of ram. I've limited context to 16k, in an effort to make it more stable, but tbh - it is rather unreliable no matter what I do. With my setup - mlx_lm and webui, it frequently collapses or loops, no matter the settings. I have done a lot of debugging and have concluded it is probably inherent model behavior.

  • Are you running an mlx model? If not, try that. My m4 macbook runs qwen3.6-35b-a3b lightning fast. Has its issues, but fast nonetheless.

  • No one is arguing that Bambu has the right to keep their sources closed. That is NOBODY's argument. Instead, you've not addressed the main argument and the point stated by Jeff - they threatened the open source developer with lawsuit and asked him to remove the code. The code doesn't violate anyting. At the same time, THEY based their whole product on opensource software. That makes them hypocrites and shitty people. That's the argument. Your post is long and doesn't address it at all.

    But let me also push back on some of the things you said.

    Bambu spends an enormous amount of money on r&d.

    So does Prusa. And Creality. And many others. They were all open source. They are now being very cautious about what they publish. It may not be Bambu's fault, but they certainly started the trend. It looks a lot like the ol' microsoft eee tactics again.

    The replacement parts are cheap. Comparable to other brands.

    They are also non-standard and not accessible to others to make and thus - the only guarantee they will stay cheap is their good word. Which is not worth much IMO. Cause I don't think they will allow competition to make the replacements without licenses.

    Why would you want to on a Bambu. ? It already works optimally.

    To customize it for your needs? What if you have no internet access on your print farm for a day and you require Bambu cloud services to work to be able to manage it? What if when you bought the printer, you could use it in LAN mode, but now after an update, you no longer can? Is it your fault still? This really happened already.

    if you want a tinker printer than get one that’s open. Most people don’t need that. They just want to print things.

    Fair point. But they did change the terms of usage after the sale once before. They're gonna do it again. This alone makes them shitty and unfit for a new printer purchase for me.

    Use a different brand if that’s a problem for you.

    I hope most people will. But again, this wasn't the original argument. Though even without the original argument, there are still reasons not to buy Bambu.

  • Smelled funny from very early on. I wonder if now all those creators on the bambu payrole will pretend like nothing happened. Channels like CNC kitchen or Tom Sanladerer come to mind. But also 99% of all other channels, bambu seems to be sponsoring a shitton of channels. At least Jeff spoke out immediately. I suspect most will keep quiet.

  • How so?

  • Tuxguitar is very good, IMO, like old guitarpro used to be (4/5 versions). It supports those formats directly.

    Other than that, there is ardour, though I am more used to reaper, which is not OSS.

  • Wait, but Mythos is the revolution in the software security world, it found 0-days in all popular OS's, including FreeBSD. I'm sure it would have found critical bugs in their own code! /s

  • I had pixel 7, broke a screen and got a pixel 8. Apart from desktop, which I dont use, I haven't noticed almost any significant day to day difference between the two.

  • Oh, definitely I'm not saying people should just jump the gun and replace their distro for one without systemd immediately. I certainly won't, at least not without thinking about it for a while. But I also think that denying the controversy exists is not good. This is definitely controversial, for some people even a deal breaker and there are valid, real reasons why. For the rest, it's good to look at what options there are, see that there really isn't an appropriate alternative for systemd in some cases and realizing that a successful fork would be a good thing. Also, a long time criticism of the community has been that systemd does too much and it being against basic Unix philosophy. I always thought of it not being a big deal, given its modularity. But I now realize that it centralizes control and design decisions to a single org and that is certainly a weak point IMO. So a fork makes a lot of sense, but it is at this point a mammoth of the project, so it will be really hard to maintain.

  • Yes, but what's wrong with this? If you gather engineers that are capable to maintain it - what is the downside? Systemd could always have used a bit of competition, I think most of us can agree. Most of the forks of systemd will fail, but most of all projects fail after some time. I don't think this situation will harm systemd ultimately and it shouldn't.