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I'm guessing they acquired it mostly exchanging stocks. Which I guess is an indication that their stock is overvalued right now if they're willing to overpay by that much.

They are trying.

Yes but it depends what you want. I didn't want to spend 8k (or now 11k) for a video card that I couldn't run without turning my home office into a boiler room and pay through the nose in electricity.

I wanted a laptop that could run some medium sized LLMs locally and experiment with. Strix Halo is great for that. But it was also 2800 euros for a 128GB premium laptop. Not 7899 like it is now.

Shame it broke out of warranty.

Yeah it isn't worth it, but comparing a server with a laptop is also not a relevant comparison.

I didn't get a Strix Halo laptop because it was the best bang per buck, I got it because it was an awesome machine that could do a little bit of everything, fit in a backpack and only needed 140W.

But noone should buy one at 7899, obviously. It was a tough sell for me at the old 2800 pricing.

You are comparing US pricing with EU pricing. EU pricing includes 21% VAT and currency conversion "rounding up".

The cheapest 128GB Macbook Pro here costs €7.949,00.

No doubt a better value than the HP, and will depreciate a lot less quickly, but just as expensive. Unfortunately, not being able to run Linux is a breaking point for me.

I had a Strix Halo laptop with 128GB which unfortunately died last week. I paid 2800 euro for it. If I buy the same machine today, the sticker price is 7899.

The device was not perfect by any means, but the ability to run fairly large models is some kind of magic.

I have yet to see a documented example of a system prompt leak that was NOT the real system prompt. Have you seen one?

I have yet to see a convincing proof that there is a teapot in an orbit around the sun between earth and mars.

The people who can debunk these system prompts claims have zero incentive to do so.

The fact that a lot of these "leaks" happen yet non of the prompts are the same or even seem to be different iterations of the same family of system prompts, should tell you all you need to know.

Posts like these happen every other week with people thinking they've got some magic sauce.

Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.

To consumers. You can sell to businesses.

OP, the Badger Badger link is leading to a wiki page about the dead Internet theory.

Here's the correct link for all to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

Used to be just a Flash animation on Weebl's stuff, but preserved on YouTube by the OG :)

There is precedent for this kind of trickery being played.

For example, Honeywell acquired Garrett AiResearch, a well known manufacturer of turbochargers for combustion engines, through a series of mergers.

Later on, it loaded them up with debt (over $1.5 billion, mostly asbestos related indemnity obligations from other parts of the business), before spinning them out as an independent entity again. Two years later, Garrett filed for bankruptcy claiming it was succumbing to the unsustainable debt burden placed upon it by its former owner.

What is the point of hosting a GitHub repo[0] with nothing in it but some links to your domain? There's no code, no license, no nothing.

[0] https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx

It's wild that none of these are set by default.

I know 90% of people I've worked with will never know these options exist.

The controllers which support ECC are usually a lot better and able to handle more channels. They also typically require active cooling.

It's a common issue on consumer boards with DDR5 and more than two DIMMs installed.

Doesn’t affect soldered memory or lower speed memory (like DDR4). Many memory controllers fail to achieve good speeds and timings at all on 4 DDR5 DIMMs, and fall back to running DDR5 at 3600MHz instead.

I bought 192GB (4x 48GB) of DDR5-6400 for 299 euro in September but returned it because I couldn't get 4 DIMMS to run at decent speeds in the system.

6 or so weeks after I returned it the kit was listed at 1499.

It's been a long time since I came across Nim. I thought it was really interesting about 12 years ago. What made you land on Nim instead of any of the more obvious alternatives?

I haven't bought an 8GB laptop since probably 2012 when I got a Sony Vaio that they upgrade to 12GB for free because of a delivery delay. I wouldn't buy an 8GB device in 2026, but this device isn't targeted at either of us.

For a lot of people who are looking at sub $800 laptops, the option to get an Apple will probably be enough to convince them. And apart from the limited memory, it really isn't a bad buy.

I also fully expect most budget devices to ship with 8GB of memory until the end of the DDR5 crisis anyway.

Kristoffer Ericson was the driving force behind JLime Linux.

Along with OpenZaurus, these early hobbyist efforts to run Linux on embedded devices formed the basis of what became OpenEmbedded and has since been renamed Yocto, still one of the most commonly used embedded Linux development platforms.

I miss those days.

I used to run Linux (JLime Linux) and NetBSD on those. I did prefer the bigger NEC MobilePro competitors though, but I spent so much time on those Jornadas in college.

Same. I was on macOS for work for about 3 years. Never gelled with me.

I was on an M2 Macbook Pro with Asahi and it was great. It's really hard to fault Apple's hardware for most use cases.

I'm currently on a Strix Halo laptop (HP Zbook), which is about as expensive, and the hardware is great, but power efficiency and build quality lag leagues behind by Apple. A 4000 euro laptop still feels like a cheap toy.

I'm fine with providing my identity for online banking and other finance platforms for legal & taxation purposes.

I can't think of a single other use case in which I'd be willing to verify my identity. I'd rather go back to hosting email myself, and am fine with circumventing content access control for all other platforms for personal use.

We're seeing the world slide towards authoritarian strongmen, and we want to give them a massive index of who we are and what we do? I'd rather not.

Most modern manufacturers disallow unlocking the bootloader and flashing unsigned firmware, which is a requirement for this kind of thing.

It turns of any features that introduce latency - it will still mess up the colour space/brightness/saturation/... on most TVs.

Add to that a case, PSU and monitor and you're realitically over $1000

There is no way to achieve a high throughput low latency connection between 25 Strix Halo systems. After accounting for storage and network, there are barely any PCIe lanes left to link two of them together.

You might be able to use USB4 but unsure how the latency is for that.

I remember seeing some celebrities in the late 00s / early 10s with IR-emitting sunglasses or accessories to flood the camera sensors of paparazzi and make it harder for photographers to get spyshots of them.

Would this approach work for these camera glasses as well, simply flooding them with so much IR spectrum light that their sensors simply can't see you anymore?

I had the same issue, where it would only charge with my 100W or above chargers. It worked with Dell USB-C 130W chargers (both genuine and knock off) and the HP charger, as well as a Baseus 100W charger. I have noticed yesterday it was working with my other chargers as well, something it certainly didn't do before. Maybe fixed through firmware update?

How about just not connecting your TV to the Internet? Then it's just a dumb display?

I've been using the Titan 2 for about two weeks now. Typing experience is better than other keyoard phones I've tried the past few years.

The device is a little bulky to put in a pocket, and the keyboard is lacking a few too many symbols for comfortable terminal use, but overall it's been a very decent experience as a main phone.