Indeed, it could be the c-states. Have you checkout what cpufreq governor is configured? Most distros should make the powersave governor the default. cpufreqd will also allow you configure min/max clock rates too which might also affect the noise you get. I know with my gaming laptop from 2019, schlepping lots of memory across the bus to the GPU can also induce a whine. Finally, my EFI config for the laptop has a “slew rate” that adjusts how frequently the CPU is polled for clock rate adjustment. Making the clock rate more responsive to demand by sampling it more frequently also impacts how much whine I get out of the machine too.

Intonation. “Say” is used as a prompt to setup the word to mimic and the word to mimic is overemphasized and repeated. We’ve got built in mirror neurons that absorb this shit like a sponge.

Yeah, it farts formaldehyde

Nah, I am doing my part to poison future AI. Someday, some robot will reference that post and confidently tell someone about it

Not all that mean when it is true 🤷

It was fake though! Those pictures from the moon don’t show stars! It was all a sound stage in california, and bajillions of dollars spent on all that rocket technology and nerds was merely part of the show! The moon rocks were just aerated concrete! The “mirrors” that scientists claim to be reflecting the lasers they are shooting don’t exist!

Artemis is definitely real though. And it will be real when the shitty Orion module burns up on reentry and the US sacrifices more scientists to the sky gods.

But, I don’t have an answer. Thus, and hence, et cetera, et cetera

Okay, so why bother asking the question if you already had an answer?

I feel like every time I’ve gone looking for an info page, it was just the man page content, but now I’ve got some useless shit I installed.

I mean, maybe this is a debian thing.

What’s worse, is if this is GNU-ware, there is a good chance the answer IS NOT IN THE MAN PAGE. I think it was bash or maybe gawk. I don’t remember exactly, but I had a question that simply wasn’t answered in each man page. GNU docs are absolute trash, written without any consideration for the audience.

Cool man. It is really refreshing to see this level of engagement. You’ve really thought this though. You’re right about the routing model moving it up a level and also about retraining. It’s all trade-offs.

Are you intending this for others to use or is this really just for you? Because I think what you’re slowly building is a power tool with a whack-a-mole set of routing tweaks specifically for you. Nothing wrong with that, but the barrier to entry for others to use this is reading that routing and understanding the foibles that have been baked in with your preferences in mind, and even adding fixes and tweaks of their own which kinda breaks the magic a little.

This was really the point I was making about transparency.

I appreciate others also doing real work with potato GPUs because I, too, have a potato GPU (6GB). I think there is real utility in continuing to develop this.

I’ll give this a star and follow along. It doesn’t really fit my mental model of how I’d like my harness to behave, but I will totally steal some of these ideas.

So I was curious about how you accomplished this and took a look with the robots to figure it out.

TL;DR: the router is a massive decision tree using heuristics and regex to avoid LLM calls on unprefixed prompts.

I think this is an interesting, brute force approach to the problem, but one that will always struggle with edge cases. The other bit it will struggle with is transparency. Yes, it might be deterministic because it is a decision tree, but unless you really understand how that decision tree works under the hood and know where the pitfalls are, you’re going to end up talking to the LLM a lot of the time anyhow.

Something you might want to consider is doing a fine-tune of a smol model (think something like qwen3:1.7B or even smaller like one of the gemma3n sub-1B) that will do the routing for you. You can easily build the dataset synthetically or harvest your own logs. I think this might end up covering more edge cases more smoothly without resorting to a big call to a larger model

lol I didn’t even see the hint until after my brain rickrolled me

Don’t let your dreams be dreams

You multitask because you think you are good at it.

I multitask because my brain is ADHD and I struggle to get anything done.

We are not the same

This is my hope, too, but realistically what is going to happen is that it will only work well, out of the box for their own gear. I like the idea of getting a frame and machine (even if it is a bit underpowered), wireless foveated streaming means longer battery life and if it just works, that would be amazing. Lots of people complaining the machine will be underpowered, but they aren’t counting that Valve has been using this as a target platform. Lots of shit will just work out of the box because that will give the best experience. Probably trying to get the wireless link on your own linux setup won’t work without lots of futzing. Valve is free to put in whatever hacks they need to make it go. I’m willing to pay money for that so I’m not wasting my Claude tokens and my time trying to make it go

I fuckin love everything about this

Looking forward to vibe coding up drone software to blow up russian soldiers.

For what it is worth, I struggle with this too. It is important to remember the humans on the other side of the conversation and step into their shoes. I don’t know what it is like to be a parent since I am not one, but I can sympathize with unfulfillingness of having a weird kid. Their purpose in life was to raise you for quite some number of years. Society has shaped their expectations on what a kid should be like. I don’t really have anything in common with my parents or talk to them often and it frustrates them, too. If you don’t want to talk to them, tell them that. That’s better than ghosting them at least, which I am guilty of.