This isn’t really true — a lot of the newer MoE models run just fine on a CPU coupled with gobs of RAM. Yes, they won’t be quite as fast as a GPU, but getting 128GB+ of VRAM is out of reach of most people.

You can even run Deepseek R1 671b (Q8) on a Xeon or Epyc with 768GB+ of RAM, at 4-8 tokens/sec depending on configuration. A system supporting this would be at least an order of magnitude cheaper than a GPU setup to run the same thing.

Yeah I definitely get your point (and I didn’t downvote you, for the record). But I will note that ChatGPT generates text way faster than most people can read, and 4 tokens/second, while perhaps slower than reading speed for some people, is not that bad in my experience.

It depends on what you mean by “relative responsiveness”, but you can absolutely get ~4 tokens/sec of performance on R1 671b (Q4 quantized) from a system costing a fraction of the number you quote.

It is indeed called a refund by the IRS and all tax professionals. The person(s) attempting to correct your use of “refund” are wrong, but they were probably trying to make the point that giving a lot of extra money to the government interest-free is not a smart financial idea.

Quit letting politics ruin our collective ability to drive by suggesting to people that Volkswagen is now an evil company. They support Hitler because they think his business policies will benefit their company. True or false as that may be their company is still great at making cars and we shouldn’t be infighting about that.

Yeah, that’s a good point. I’m not counting on sideloading bringing any benefit to me, but if it does I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

you are on the privacy lemmy, i hope you realize that

Yes.

iPhones are as anti-privacy as possible

I’m not even sure I know what “as anti-privacy as possible” actually means, but this is a garbage statement, and I say this as someone who thinks that both Android and iOS are flaming piles of shit. Did you see that the OP mentioned that they’d consider switching to an iPhone?

Just my two cents on this topic: I used to use an Android phone with LineageOS (this was before Graphene was a thing), and struggled with similar bugs/issues from time to time.

I got an iPhone and never looked back.

Don’t get me wrong, as you suggested here, iPhones are objectively worse in a lot of ways. But mostly, it. Just. Works. And, rather than fight the OS on things like VPN configs, ad blocking, browser usage, etc, I’ve found that I simply use my phone less, and tether my phone to a real computer more often. Paired with a small chromebook or other laptop running Linux, or (gasp) even MacOS, I just don’t use my phone as much as I used to.

On the plus side, iPhones are supported for a long time, have a secure lockdown mode which you can enable if you’re extra paranoid, and have “don’t need to think about it” full-device encryption including full phone backup support. If your phone ever dies or you want to upgrade, you can load a full backup/image from your old device on to your new one with close to zero fuss (just gotta deal with USB 2.0 speeds on all but the newest phones :)

One final note, you don’t need to sign in to an account to use iOS as far as I’m aware. You lose out on the sync/iCloud stuff that Apple provides, but it sounds like you don’t care much about that anyway.

You evidently don’t know enough about logic and logical fallacies to grasp what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s worth spending any more time on. Take care.

Yes I know, it’s the way the argument is put with “You have to understand”, as if I wasn’t aware of a very obvious fact.
Put together with the bubble comment, he argues like a camouflaged MAGA, using “you too” arguments.

Cool, now we’re getting somewhere. I agree with you! I’ll ask you for a THIRD time, have you read the article that I shared a link to? Because if you do, you’ll see why what you describe here is not an ad hominem, no matter how condescending, presumptuous, or rude the commenter might be.

So do you think that’s an OK comment to our discussion?

I’m not passing any judgement on whether anything is an “OK comment.” In fact, on the topic being discussed, I think I agree with you more than the person you’re replying to. As I said though, I only stopped by to comment on your fallacious claim that the person committed an ad hominem, because it’s super fucking annoying to me when people throw that term around when they don’t know what they’re doing.

you must understand you are wrong, because “obvious fact”

THIS PART IS THE PERSON’S ARGUMENT, no matter how good or bad as it might be, and no matter how much it is surrounded by words that you view as insulting. In fact, if anyone is resorting to an ad hominem here, it’s you, by attacking their character and dancing around the actual meat of their argument (again, as good or bad as it might be). Therefore I hope you agree with me that the other commenter did not commit an ad hominem fallacy. Or did you not read the link I posted yet?

Ok buddy, you only quoted part of what I said. Did you even read the post I linked to? You’re wrong; it’s cool though, we all make mistakes. Accept it and move on.

You don’t just get to call any words that you don’t like, or even words directly attacking you, an ad hominem. A statement is only an ad hominem if 1) it’s attempting to refute an argument 2) by attacking the character/motive of the person making the argument INSTEAD OF the actual content of the argument. “Your argument is wrong because you’re an idiot” is an ad hominem. What the other commenter said to you is not. Note that people claiming “ad hominem” on statements that are not are sometimes said to be committing an “ad hominem fallacy fallacy.”

https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

I actually agree with you on the Amazon/Youtube/Meta thing and I’m trying my hardest to stop using all those companies, but I think another point here is that Twitter is much more directly connected to fascism, given that it’s owned by the guy who just spent a week crashing the post-election party at Mar-A-Lago.

nitter.poast.org

Delete your account :)

I don’t have any skin in this game but just want to point out that “I understand you are hurt and angry” is an attempt to empathize with you, and not an ad hominem fallacy.

If you read what I posted and thought I was ranting, I’m not sure what to tell you. Touch grass for fuck’s sake?

Saying “I’ve never once felt that I was missing out” is not the same as saying “I know I’m not missing out.” You seem to be addressing the latter when I said the former.

I feel that way because it’s how I feel.

I’m not sure, but wanted to add another hot take: if you’re a journalist and you use Twitter as a primary source for your work, you’re not a journalist.

Don’t tell me not to do things.