Well that’s one position, another is to say AI, being developed currently, is :

• not working due to hallucinations
• wasteful in terms of resources
• creates problematic behaviors in terms of privacy
• creates more inequality

and other problems and is thus in most cases (say outside of e.g numerical optimization as already done at e.g DoE, so in the “traditional” sense of AI, not the LLM craze) better be entirely ignored.

Edit : what I mean is that the argument of inevitability itself is dangerous, often abused.

FWIW I do have my own page on FLOSS AI, cf https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence so I do believe it’s at least interesting, even important, to understand what it is.

Still, AFAIK both the electricity https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/ and even the potential for correction https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 from intrinsic properties of the dataset and learning but also as its marketed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 today make me reiterate, AI FLOSS doesn’t not automatically solve all problems of closed source or proprietary AI.

Edit: I know of Petals, I even discussed with some people working on it, and I learned about federated AI or federated learning back then, since at least 2019 (proof) so this isn’t new to me.

Interesting video and glad to see open-source suggested as a potential solution at the end… yet, it does not solve hallucinations (for LLMs), energy consumption (any form of AI) or… the fact that the hype itself is an economical and political tool at the service of a few. On the final point on regulators, I believe it’s damaging to imply that regulators are ignorant. They are not technical, indeed, but they are not supposed to. Regulators didn’t need to know how to build a plane to dictate rules that would improve safety in the industry, same for not being engineers in order to make the seatbelt mandatory. Yet, they do learn from technical experts, e.g in Europe the JRC that informs the Europeen Commission, Parliament, etc.

Indeed, Linux and FLOSS more broadly was never about technology itself, it’s about empowering. It “just” happens to be where software change could lead to a pragmatic difference for so many lives.

Own your computer, own your devices, value your life and don’t interact with the numerical world through manipulative blinders.

Obviously important but “Published 2 months ago, on April 15, 2024” so would be good to also have an up to date link to understand what has changed, if anything, since that leak.

If it’s your laptop then you don’t have to care about the firewall, your laptop can be the access point and connect to the reMarkable.

Well you can bring your laptop, plug it on HDMI then ssh to the device, I’ve done that in the past.

Not HDMI but you can do screen sharing wirelessly, e.g https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable?tab=readme-ov-file#screen-sharingstreaming

I use the reMarkable 2 nearly daily. It’s so much thinner and can be tinkered with (you can ssh to it then do whatever you want BUT the interface itself, the read/writing software xochtil is NOT open-source, hence hacks) so I prefer it.

That said the PineNote is quite powerful comparatively, both specs (which don’t “feel” like much when you are on eInk anyway, even memory) and connectivity (e.g Bluetooth simply opening up a world of accessories) so it’s cool to tinker.

What usage do you have in mind? Could help to differentiate both. Also FWIW I don’t think the PineNote is in stock.

Any review? In theory interested (I have reMarkable 1, 2 and PineNote) but short of trying one myself I’d like to read what people here think, not just announcements, otherwise feels like an ad.

Obviously based on the community here, I’d also like to know, beyond the eInk screen performances (which seems to be the single biggest differentiating factor) if it’s possible to use Linux rather than Android, like on the devices I already have.

Might be correct but without any source for the number I can’t even share this back. Asked them, will update if I get an answer.

I’d be curious about the access speed comparison, because I’d assume for the brain it’s be RAM equivalent, not SDD

Avoided using it until now but I guess in this case that’s justified, if there is no other distributors and it’s made there.

Interesting video based on “No “Zero-Shot” Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance” https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 which basically says (my interpretation) that temporary techniques, i.e not LLM but LMM are statistical models based on large datasets which don’t, and can’t unless at a ridiculously (basically impractical) high cost consider the long tail, namely what is not quite popular.

How can I even buy one in Europe?

Edit : link to a (strange) thread with a bit more detail https://lemmy.ml/comment/10195095 but the TL;DR being that NVIDIA drivers do work and ProtonDB literally “changed the game” during those very last years.

Not sure what to say… you’re the one who said “I wish I wasn’t a vr gamer sometimes so I could unsubscribe from this os permanently” then I should you its possible then you try to argue with me it’s not. It’s weird. Stopping now as I don’t think it’s productive for either of us, take care.

Only issue is I have an nvidia gpu atm unforch.

Not an issue, been gaming with a 2080ti and 4090 for a while now, just works for me, including in VR on “Windows only” games.

In YOUR case, my point is precisely that you please don’t discourage others who might want to use Linux to play, including in VR, including on high end hardware, to have outdated beliefs.

Except that’s my point though, I even started with that… I do have a 4090 also and use it to play VR on Linux. That part IS a “normal” experience. It’s the 1000mods that isn’t. To clarify I mention BG3 and HLA only because it’s AAA. I also play indie VR games on Linux and they “just work”. One of them being built by a friend who was even positively shocked to learn that.

I brought ProtonDB up in the previous post, is that due to the SteamDeck running Linux (but on AMD, not NVIDIA) there has been a huge effort on Valve’s part to make the compatibility layer “just work” so the experience a gamer had with Linux just few years ago is not the same as today.

Another source beside ProtonDB https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/three-gaming-focused-linux-operating-systems-beat-windows-11-in-gaming-benchmarks even though I find benchmarks to be a bit artificial at least not my opinion against another.