Deutschland braucht endlich von Bundesebene vorgeschriebene komplette Lernmittelfreiheit. Geht aber vermutlich nicht weil dann der Buchhandel leidet, oder so.
Meine Kinder sind in Finnland in der Schule - und ich hoere die Geschichten von Freuden aus Deutchland. Das ist jetzt noch schlimmer als zu meiner Schulzeit. Bloedsinn wie 'jedes Kind bringt pro Schuljahr einen Pack Kopierpapier mit'
It surely is a bubble - so probably a bit different than many other bubbles.
I think OpenAI made the right call (for them) to commercialize when they did - as that pretty much was their only chance to do so. Things has moved fast over the last 1.5 years - and what used to take a decade in tech has happened within months: OpenAI is the dinosaur company grandfathered in, while for already about a year it's been more sensible for anybody wanting to do something with LLM to selfhost (or buy hosting capacity, but put up own data) one of the more open language models, and possibly adjust or re-train it.
As a company owner I get a ridiculous amount of spam for a year already from all kinds of companies building products on top of OpenAI stack, or are trying to sell training or conferences. All those companies will be left with nothing once all the slower users realize technology has moved on. It's like somebody trying to build all their product offerings based on VMWare stack nowadays.
If you as a company want to offer something around AI right now the safest option is probably offering hosting, or if you want to do more hands on, adjustment of open models. Both of those are very risky, and many will go bust in years to come - but not as suicidal as building on top of a closed dinosaur.
Eventuell I-USB7? Proprietaerer Stecker, unterschiedlicher Pinout je nach Hersteller.
Mobile workstation. There are some Xeon notebooks which also can take more than 64GB - but they have bad availability, cost about the same as a high end mac book pro, are significantly larger and heavier, run hot and have shitty battery life for comparable performance.
The overall hardware situation has been ridiculous for many years now. I recently got a new Dell Latitude for a customer project - runs hot, performance and runtime suck. Runs out even faster than my tiny GPD pocket 3, while providing worse performance. Compared specs - they indeed stuck a smaller battery into the business notebook than into the portable toy. We're now at a point were a Chinese niche hardware maker does better thermal management for x86 systems than any of the established manufacturers. Current AMD mobile CPUs are great - and I'd love to have a good notebook with one, just nobody bothers building it.
Yeah, but x86 was relatively cheap. Alpha and Itanium were in a similar price range.
At that time Alpha belonged to Compaq - and they stopped Alpha development (and canned quite a few good designs which were pretty much ready to go), expecting they'll be able to replace it with Itanium.
Will be interesting how much that'll cost - but generally it looks like we're finally approaching a point where you can buy small systems with enough RAM and network bandwidth for cheap enough that it makes sense to create ceph OSDs with just one or two disks attached each.
Problem with Apple is that they're trying very hard to control use of their stuff - so working with their stuff is very annoying. I only recently looked into it again as it was required for work projects where acquiring relevant hardware wasn't a problem - and even then it still is very annoying to manage, compared to Linux and even Windows.
I used to run cross compile setups for a bunch of open source projects 10-15 years ago, including MacOS. Back then they were using a gcc based toolchain, and thanks to GPL had to publish the base toolchain - yet they still tried very hard to break things between releases, which eventually got so bad that we decided to first drop MacOS builds, and later just completely drop MacOS support as you can't really do that without proper hardware access.
The situation has gotten a lot worse since LLVM - which Apple was pushing in big part as it allowed them to publish their SDKs under their licenses only. So nowadays you still can download their SDK - but using it on non-Apple-silicon is against their TOS.
Also hyprland, moved from ion3 about half a year ago.
Do you want screenshots or config? I can't directly publish stuff - I keep my configs in a git repo that started as CVS in the 90s, and contains lots of stuff that shouldn't be public - but can extract individual bits.
edit screenshot with (hopefully) everything sensitive removed. Emacs is in a scratchpad ("special workspace" in hyprland). The desktop where emacs is displaying opens stuff like teams, slack, ...
Hyprlands way of being able to tie desktops to displays and their numbering works better with keeping the same setup across different devices than with ion3 - with the same setup on my notebook I just have one desktop visible at the same time, but I still get to my terminals with Alt-1, my main browser instance with Alt-2, my chat windows with Alt-4.
The small display on the right is a Wacom Cintiq - useful for random overflow stuff when not in use as tablet. I have stuff like IDEs, virt-manager, waydroid show up on workspaces bound to Alt-`, Alt-[ and Alt-] which go to that display.
IBM Model M clone
Want to try with an original?
Also, surprising you kept the wife, not the keyboard.
Also: if there's a boss fight I can't get through because I can't get the timing right just detect that, and make it easier for me.
I loved the Zelda games on the different game boy variants - but never finished one as there always was that one boss I couldn't get past. And that was when I still was young and had patience to try to put effort into mastering the movements. For more modern games I'm stuck with some boss on ittle dew - great game, but probably will never touch it again for more then the 2 minutes it takes me to realize where the last save is stuck. Just opened it yesterday, was surprised about the progress, and closed it halfway into dying in the fight.
I have a bunch of NUC-sized AMD systems - mostly from asrock, but one from asus as well, as the asrock ones were not available at the moment.
Buying that thing yet again proved all prejudices against asus. Half the special features are not working, support is incompetent, and firmware updating is a mess - as is the documentation. asrock has a detailed description of every pin header on the board over multiple pages - while asus used that space with a detailed guide on how to find and press the power button.
I did not sign with them after I had some issues with the contract provided, and the resulting interactions with my future manager. I'd say at least for someone from Europe the company culture is less than ideal from that encounter.