I had 2x MMR. Just got a 3rd shot anyway, just in case.

EDIT: For more context, the Costco pharmacist told me (even with 2 shots) its immunity does wane over time. She said I’d probably be fine skipping in my age bracket, but I’m in Texas and I don’t like ‘probably.’

Completely depends on your laptop hardware, but generally:

• TabbyAPI (exllamav2/exllamav3)
• ik_llama.cpp, and its openai server
• kobold.cpp (or kobold.cpp rocm, or croco.cpp, depends)
• An MLX host with one of the new distillation quantizations
• Text-gen-web-ui (slow, but supports a lot of samplers and some exotic quantizations)
• SGLang (extremely fast for parallel calls if thats what you want).
• Aphrodite Engine (lots of samplers, and fast at the expense of some VRAM usage).

I use text-gen-web-ui at the moment only because TabbyAPI is a little broken with exllamav3 (which is utterly awesome for Qwen3), otherwise I’d almost always stick to TabbyAPI.

Tell me (vaguely) what your system has, and I can be more specific.

True, though there’s a big output difference between the 7B distil (or even 32B/70B) and the full model.

And Microsoft does host R1 already, heh. Again, this headline is a big nothingburger.

Also (random aside here), you should consider switching from ollama. They’re making some FOSS unfriendly moves, and depending on your hardware, better backends could host 14B models at longer context, and similar or better speeds.

One can get Deepseek R1 from many providers (including US hosts, or various other nationalities). Microsoft even has their own anti-CCP finetune, MIT licensed: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1

…Banning the app is reasonable, and a tiny inconvenience for anyone who needs DS.

In other words, this is a big nothingburger because V3/R1 are open models. The story would be different if it was (say) an API-only model like Qwen Max or GPT4o, where ultimately one is beholden to the trainer’s servers.

They will have to pick between lip service (and hiding the changes by, say, quietly pulling out of places?) and government retribution. Mark my words, at some point they will go after any kind of “climate agenda.”

And that balance will depend on leadership. I mentioned Berkshire specifically because (at the top level, at least) they’re pretty old school with a low tolerance for nonsense, and big enough to eat the retribution.

And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.

Depends. Some of their CEOs will shamelessly bow to the party line, though not all. Definitely not Berkshire-Hathaway.

My generation called that kind of party a “sausage fest.”

And not the fun kind.

Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.

Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.

IMO the AMD 7900 GPU series is in a sweet spot R/N (at least with used listings I can see).

It’s not really in demand for AI, very fast, but not “4090+” fast to shoot the price through the roof. New but not too new. Plenty of VRAM to give it longevity. Going forward they will probably get more scarce and get swept up in tariff prices.

So… Maybe get one of those. Or a 7800.

Others mentions a 5700XD, which I am a huge fan of, except prices for it seem to be sky high, like way more than a 5800.

Nah its much simpler label than that.

“Troll”

The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.

As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

What time travel rules? See: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporalMutability

Going with “overwriting the timeline,”

• buy yourself an hour to live on the first day, should be easy enough

• make fat cash with options trading in minutes

• buy hella security

• repeat until the seven days have passed

I would also rig a “dead man’s switch” on my phone in case the assassin ever does get me, to reset things (by telling my past self of my current situation, so they can avoid it).

“Installing my driver” is a cultural relic from old Windows days where it wasn’t automatic; one needed a CD/Floppy or whatever to get your printer or ATI card working. It was good practice. Hence tons of “driver cleaner/updater” kind of shovelware exists to capitalize on that mindset.

…These days, Windows update (or the Arch/CachyOS package repos in my case) auto-update all my hardware with zero fuss. IDK why so many stray from that, unless they encounter a bug that was specifically fixed in an update.

That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.

Now its basically required.

They will certainly grow if (US) social media keeps dominating voters’ lives. For all the other factors and opposition screw ups, that’s the engine driving their rise.

But yeah, IDK what Salon is on about.

Oil.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/greenland-puts-an-end-unsuccessful-oil-adventure-2021-07-16/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/05/10/energy-industry-already-giving-trump-millions-while-he-promises-big-cutbacks-in-seeking-1-billion-donation/

So… Microtransactions.

They want more microtransactions?

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don’t see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.

Again, devil’s avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,

Yeah honestly I agree with you.

But like others said, not sure iffy translations would be enough to save the company.

Not following that at all…

AI Bro is pretty specific. To me, its evangelists worshipping nebulous ideas and figures like Altman or maybe Musk, looking down on others for not “understanding” how amazing their vision of AI is, all in on the enshittification and impracticality, all in on the raging hype.

It feels very much like crypto fanaticism.

Even if we interpret OP as cynically as possible (lazy AI-only translation when they have another option)… that’s bad, but not “AI Bro” to me.