I remember reading this thing has poor obstacle penetration but I’m assuming that’s talking about walls and furniture, not a pc, but will that be a problem?
My understanding is it ships with a WiFi dongle. So yes, anything about “poor penetration” is talking about walls / concrete / similar. A port on the back of your PC should not be an issue.
For the rest, idk.
Buying this will give Amazon more money to buy out the competition before they even make it to market.
Bezos. No thanks.
I believe that these approaches to technology stem from having too little competition in any given space. Companies can only sell products with unpopular features when a) the product remains necessary and b) there are no real alternatives which don’t also have the anti-feature (or, the anti-feature is not seen as enough to deter against buying the thing).
It’s not just tractors: feels like every piece of tech now has a bunch of shit you don’t want (and even some that harms you), all in a disposable, unrepairable package that costs more than older tech. That older product was often just as good if not better than the newer one.
Arch people tend to want people to know they use Arch (btw). You’ll also find a lot of posts about getting Arch working.
Debian people tend to be too busy doing other things on their computers besides getting them working, so you’ll hear about it less.
(Important: I’m not dumping on either distro here. Some people, myself included, like Arch exactly because it’s fun to play with and set up. Debian’s older packages tend to mean a more stable system. Use what you like.)
I have been using qwen-3.5-9b as a general purpose LLM that I can still load up while gaming (on a 16GB card). I never have issues if I’m under 10ish gigs of VRAM usage for the game, so I imagine it should work for your use case.
I’ve been generally happy with the results on everyday reasoning tasks and programming questions.
I pressed it. Just pressed it again. Turns out it doesn’t show up on Lemmy. Lol
Vibe coding is horrible in the wrong hands, but a skilled programmer can utilise it to carry out boring tasks.
If things continue as they are, eventually there will be no more skilled programmers.
As I said, I don’t think it’s worth it. And that’s OK – we can disagree.
Remote access is the single area where Plex is better. Even then, it’s not that you can’t do it with Jellyfin; it’s just harder to set up.
Everything about Jellyfin is free. This includes hardware transcoding, which is subscription based on Plex.
The Jellyfin apps are also much better than they used to be. I’d say easily on par with Plex now (the native Jellyfin client and the music app, finamp).
To me, it seems like a really hard sell when Jellyfin effectively does everything that the paid service does for free.
That’s the arguably part. The argument.
+1 for heliboard.
GBoard has good recognition, but I’d rather my keyboard didn’t just siphon off whatever I type.
Psh, even I could do that!
Heads to Claude Code…
It’s so weird though. Do they not know it exists? Do they expect their customers not to know it exists?
When your primary competition is free (and arguably better), the last thing one should think to do is raise prices.
I can only assume that some C-suites are looking at numbers and don’t know what else to do but make the product more expensive.
A fantastic summary.
Addendum to #2: to add insult to injury, a lot of the training data in AI models was used without consent. That means that the output of skilled people was stolen from them in order to train systems designed to steal from them again.
There are simply a lot fewer people on Lemmy. That’s to be expected.
I will say that the quality of conversation tends to be a bit higher on Lemmy. YMMV though.
I feel a lot less of the hive-mind effect on Lemmy versus Reddit. Not sure why that is.
This is Sony, folks. Once they get in a mood to hang onto something needlessly, they do it.
The last Betamax cassette was manufactured in 2016.
Yeah for sure. Technically a PC does count as an obstacle, but in practice it’s not a large enough one to matter. If it were a room or two over, then maybe.