sounds like that’s planned but maybe not in yet

I prefer 3 character filename extensions

May I suggest .jxl?

There are a couple more, but they’re mostly similar to these. They also have transparent and black backgrounds of everything.

You may or may not be able to find the Animation Factory Essential Collection 3 on the Internet Archive

From back when Animation Factory, the weird gif maker people, were owned by VA Linux Systems / VA Software

Sodium ion is generally much more stable.

In the US, quick look for bad deals on amazon and I found 8GB ram, 256GB storage i3-1115G4 for $373 new. Should be about the same or a little worse than this one. But above that in the listings is essentially the same machine for $280.

Looking for good deals, I found a ‘renewed’ 16GB RAM, 512GB storage i5-1245U on Amazon for $260, or same specs used on Ebay for $200. Has a pretty decent iGPU as well, for the time. New was $400 or greater though even on the 8/256GB machines with that CPU. For something that isn’t a laptop, used BC-250s in the US are at about $160, still a great deal even though back in November they were about $95.

I’d say in the US there’s no reason to get a low end laptop new, the pricing gets much more sane in the midrange usually. And also that you can find some pretty terrible hardware still being sold as new on Amazon. But there are good deals here, even if they take a bit of looking sometimes. Which may be different from the country you’re in, idk. sorry for the ramble, I just enjoy looking for good value hardware lol

ROCM still barely works on Windows and it’s only recently been supported at all IIRC.

Yeah, Linux generally supports older hardware for much longer, but it’s not only that. Linux devs are fairly attentive about performance, clean code, consistent frameworks, etc, meanwhile Microsoft is out there making random OS components in React just because it’s a little easier. From what I’ve heard the culture there is to not care about how something is done as long as it works.

i feel like in general there’s not usually much of a reason to upgrade after a single generation, regardless of the vendor, unless you have some very specific circumstances

yes, the b580 is good, but it’s not that good

Linux performance improvements are most noticeable on lower end hardware, at the higher end performance VS windows is usually pretty random from what I’ve seen.

I find that having a tissue in my nose, eating, sipping water, or playing an instrument that goes in my mouth all very effectively mitigate the urge to sneeze. When I get bad allergies or a cold I often have a constant strong urge to sneeze for up to half an hour at a time, so I sip water slowly for a while.

don’t have word but trying it rn, loading into new blank documents or mostly empty ones:

notepad: ~3 seconds the first time, ~1 second immediately after

libreoffice writer: ~7 seconds the first time, ~2 seconds immediately after

onlyoffice docs: ~5 seconds the first time, ~2 seconds immediately after

collabora office docs: ~12 seconds the first time, ~2 seconds immediately after

vs code: ~2-3 seconds the first time, ~1.5 seconds immediately after

visual studio 2022: ~5 seconds to title screen, quit and opened a file in ~5 seconds, ~4 seconds immediately after

servo: ~3 seconds the first time, ~2 seconds immediately after

chrome canary: ~2-3 seconds the first time, ~1.25 seconds immediately after

tengscribe: ~1.25 seconds the first time, ~1 second immediately after

texstudio: ~5 seconds the first time, ~3 seconds immediately after

there is a clear winner here. i completely forgot that i had that program lol

The most recent estimates are between 2.5 and 7 million people in the area now covered by the US and Canada. The areas further south were a lot more populated.

I heavily dislike them locking down their cameras. Idk if that was a particularly recent move or not, but I would never consider the hardware as open if it has built in vendor locking functions.

Not an LLM or a Pi Pico but I think this project is pretty cool regardless

https://github.com/traviszech/RPI-ZERO-2-OnnxStream

A few years ago I installed Linux on a $40 used Chromebook with 4gb RAM. It runs Blender, Freecad, Minecraft, Celeste, Portal, Kdenlive, etc perfectly acceptably. It has CPU performance a tiny bit worse than the Pi 5, but is x86 and comes with a mouse, keyboard, battery, etc.

I don’t think comparing performance over used PCs is ever going to be favorable for a pi, I think the reasons to get one are reliability, gpio, and the small form factor.

there are a lot more comments on their profile on piefed, some must be in communities that aren’t federated here or smth

Yes, it works out to a ton of power and money, but on the other hand, 2x the computation could be like a few percent better in results. so it’s often a thing of orders of magnitude, because that’s what is needed for a sufficiently noticeable difference in use.

basing things on theoretical tops is also not particularly equivalent to performance in actual use, it just gives a very general idea of a perfect workload.

At the datacenter scale Gaudi 3 was pretty good, at least when it came out.

Intel GPU support?

ZLUDA previously supported Intel GPUs, but not currently. It is possible to revive the Intel backend. The development team is focusing on high‑quality AMD GPU support and welcomes contributions.

Anyways, no actual AI company is going to buy $100M of AI cards just to run all of their software through an unfinished community made translation layer, no matter how good it becomes.

OneAPI is decent, but apparently usually fairly cumbersome to work with and people prefer to write software in cuda as it’s the industry standard (and the standard in academia)