Does the BIOS support any overclocking/tweaking?

I’m not familliar with Rocket Lake (your CPU generation), but you may be able to bump the voltage or loosen the timings a bit to get it stable. Even without BIOS support, it’s possible you could do this from your operating system, like you can with Ryzen.

But why?

Wouldn’t it be better to spend the same effort writing ffmpeg modules and interfaces in Rust?

keeping external dependencies to a minimum

This is… concerning, too.

Media processing code is difficult. It’s not even a pure coding problem, and often involves human perception, extensive, expensive experimentation and esoteric, buggy hardware APIs . Hence the whole point of ffmpeg is basically integration of external libraries, with immense amounts of labor already put into each.

There are some Rust libraries they could pull in though. I guess it’d be reasonable to focus on newer formats/codecs that have Rust implementations already, and let ffmpeg handle weird legacy formats.

Not according recent polling.

You guys should be worrying about this shit, not dismissing it. Especially with most of Europe addicted to American social media.

Several. System76 (the cosmic dev) is a major one, literally making the distro just for their laptops.

They’re mostly white boxes though. I don’t any and manufacture their own hardware (except Framework possibly???)

Is it always a new laptop/computer?

I’d be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).

Reddit’s UX is awful though, at least on the website. But I guess most people use the phone apps?

Mmmmm. Pure “prompt engineering” feels soulless to me. And you have zero control over the endpoint, so changes on their end can break your prompt at any time.

Messing with logprobs and raw completion syntax was fun, but the US proprietary models took that away. Even sampling is kind of restricted now, and primitive compared to what’s been developed in open source.

If you think of LLMs as an extra teammate, there’s no fun in managing them either. Nurturing the personal growth of an LLM is an obvious waste of time. Micromanaging them, watching to preempt slop and derailment, is frustrating and rage-inducing.

Finetuning LLMs for niche tasks is fun. It’s explorative, creative, cumulitive, and scratches a ‘must optimize’ part of my brain. It feels like you’re actually building and personalizing something, and teaches you how they work and where they fail, like making any good program or tool. It feels you’re part of a niche ‘old internet’ hacking community, not in the maw of Big Tech.

Using proprietary LLMs over APIs is indeed soul crushing. IMO this is why devs who have to use LLMs should strive to run finetunable, open weights models where they work, even if they aren’t as good as Claude Code.

But I think most don’t know they exist. Or had a terrible experience with terrible ollama defaults, hence assume that must be what the open model ecosystem is like.

It’s not a joke, heh. After some update in the last month or two, my monitor won’t wake up unless I power cycle the monitor.

I mean. I love Linux. But low maintenance it is not.

A lot of Africa is majorly into wildlife protection, free education, environmental sustainability, friendly communal culture, stuff like that. It’s developing like crazy.

I hear some of South America is too.

But uh, employment, crime? YMMV. Depends on how you intend to make a living I guess.

To add to pinball:

…If one wants to code in shader support, shouldn’t they just PR it? This isn’t like Mojang where the source is set in stone.

OP is right, though abrasive.

Engagement is engagement. The more people talk about Tate and Paul, even if it’s negative, the bigger their mansions get.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

They can’t react in 2026 unless they already have something in the pipe, and they don’t (yet) make their own RAM.

…That being said, it could be a good year for big APUs, which use system RAM you already need, anyway.

It’s remarkable how consistently awful Microsoft stuff is.

I cite a comment from my Dad: “I don’t know what copilot is, but I don’t want it.” New Microsoft Feature = spam is literally trained into regular people’s brains now, like an animal that’s been repeatedly burned.

Why not both?

Unfortunately, not everyone has the cash to spend up front. Paying more over time is easier.

Or they just get lured in by a cheap sticker price.

And again, price is still relevant. If this is well over $1K, it starts to negate the Steam storefront cost savings.

Price!

We can argue about it all we want, but basically everything hinges on its street price.

If it’s cheap, all those critiques are irrelevant.

Expensive? “It’s cute, I like Steam, I like how it mostly works OOTB,” gets real niche, real quick.

Oh, he knows. To some extent.

I don’t think Netanyahu is a “true fundamentalist” like the far right part of the government. He’s Machiavellian, a suvivalist. Perhaps it’s all some means to an end, but I think Israel’s international toxicity is very much factored into his political calculus.

I don’t mean to question his faith, and I hate to sound cynical, but he’s got a looong trail of political decisions that sure speak to that.

https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext