utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml Posts 1Comments 624Joined 3 yr. ago
Thanks for taking the time to clarify all that.
It's not a typo because the paper itself does mention 3090 as a benchmark.
I do tinker with FPGAs at home, for the fun of if (I'm no expert but the fact that I own few already shows that I know more about the topic than most people who don't even know what it is, or what it's for) so I'm quite aware of what some of the benefits (and trade of) can be. It's an interesting research path (again, otherwise I wouldn't even have invested my own resources to learn more about that architecture in the first place) so I'm not criticizing that either.
What I'm calling BS on... is the title and the "popularization" (and propaganda, let's be honest here) article. Qualifying a 5 years old chip as flagship (when, again, it never was) and implying what the title does, is wrong. It's overblown otherwise interesting work. That being said, I'm not surprised, OP share this kind of things regularly, to the point that I ended up blocking him.
Edit: not sure if I really have to say so but the 4090, in March 2025, is NOT the NVIDIA flagship, that's 1 generation behind. I'm not arguing for the quality of NVIDIA or AMD or whatever chip here. I'm again only trying to highlight the sensationalization of the article to make the title look more impressive.
Edit2: the 5090, in March 2025 again, is NOT even the flagship in this context anyway. That's only for gamers... but here the article, again, is talking about "energy-efficient AI systems" and for that, NVIDIA has an entire array of products, from Jetson to GB200. So... sure the 3090 isn't a "bad" card for a benchmark but in that context, it is no flagship.
PS: taking the occasion to highlight that I do wish OP to actually go to China, work and live there. If that's their true belief and they can do so, to not solely "admire" a political system from the outside, from the perspective of not participating to it, but rather give up on their citizenship and do move to China.
Well, I honestly tried (cf history). You're neither addressing my remark about the fact from the article nor the bigger picture. Waste of time, blocked.
Unfortunately my model isn't supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.
Based on https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1jb2uvt/roomba_accidentally_saw_outside_and_now_i_cant/ I'd bet some models surely do.
That being said, I am NOT promoting Roomba or any other brand, I'm only highlighting that apps aren't necessarily a requirement for the basic feature.
Finally, as others suggested if one genuinely does need such feature and is mindful about privacy, I'd check https://valetudo.cloud/ first then see what harder supports it, which sadly doesn't seem to support Roomba or Roborock AFAICT. It does, lucky you, check https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html#roborock
Edit: apparently "Xiaomi V1 is made by Roborock" according to https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html so maybe there is way, worth investigating for you IMHO.
turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized
If that's the point then that's the entire GPU used for mining then ML revolution, thanks to CUDA mostly, that already happened in 2010 so that's even older, that'd 15 yeas ago.
What I was highlighting anyway is that it's hard to trust an article where simple facts are wrong.
What is this... "Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU"? Are we in back in 2020? Half a decade ago? Is this a joke? Even then, it wasn't the flagship, the 3090 Ti was.
Is there a Murena/Volla of vacuuming robots? Namely can one buy a working robot (new or reconditioned) with Valetudo pre-installed?
FWIW you can use a Roomba without an app. You... push the physical button on the robot, and voila. No app, no connection, still cleaning.
Sure you can't schedule cleaning but honestly unless you have a version that can empty it's own trash recipient and your house is always robot cleaning friendly (so... 0 cable on the way, chairs aside, etc) it's rarely a huge efficiency gain.
Honestly I feel like 10y/o there was a lot of hype around vacuuming robot but it didn't "explode" in popularity because it's not really such a big difference.
Blocked, you're just trying to be provocative instead of having a constructive discussion. I don't have time to waste on that so don't bother replying to my comments, I won't see what you write anymore.
In case any parent is reading this and feels (somehow!) like "Oh no... my child will be left behind!" to the point of considering buying some BS humanoid or animaloid "pedagogical" robot, get yourself a (European designed) good "old" Lego set! They've been at it for decades (literally, since at least 1998 with Mindstorms) and they focus specifically on pedagogy at school with e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-education-spike-essential-set-45345
Do NOT get a cheap piece of plastic that you do not understand, that behaves in "smart" ways you can't explain and that passes data long you have no idea about!
"Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn't have a name for it – yet. "It's like a little teacher or a little friend," the boy said"
... it's way WORST than a fail. How do you think this human will develop assuming friendship with a (commercial) product rather than another human being? My bet, but I'm no psychologist, is poorly.
That opening photo is so telling, a chess robot ... while one could literally run https://lichess.org/ from ANY device (tablet, mobile phone, laptop, etc) and have a functionally equivalent experience for free (both open source and free of cost, no ad either), in fact arguably a much better one due 0 setup time (literally none, it's all Web based!) to all the community, tutoring exercises, etc.
This is such a blatant fail.
IMHO that's the linchpin, what's the gap between what a leader (political or business) would claim to be true versus... what's actually working, and beyond that, what's actually useful then used in practice.
Working in innovation we called this the "marketing gap" and it's quite a funnel, from broad claim that AI or any other emerging technology will "change everything" to what people, workers and consumers alike, actually use frequently and are wiling to pay for.
One needs bold claims, even if false, to get votes or funding money.
I can't vouch for them but there are managed solutions for Immich, e.g. https://elest.io/open-source/immich
added AI to its products basically to receive government subsidies.
Damn, I opened this post bracing myself for BS comments praising AI slop but this was actually interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you have any references (in English ideally) where I could read about such trends there, not propaganda & tech marketing like that BBC piece?
I wish I had know both how painless it was AND how happy (even proud) I'd be about it!
Honestly the 1 thing that matters is : having your data backed-up. Everything else is secondary. Sure, you will have some UX hiccups, the UI will be new, some tools won't behave exactly like you are used to, so what? Live and learn the same way you did with Google products. We have been absolutely brainwashed (and I do mean "we", I don't mean "you") to believe that whenever there is a big bright BigTech logo, it's safe and easy. It's not! We are just used to it and when we genuinely think back, we did learn where everything is. When things change we assume we're at fault.
Anyway... if you are genuinely nervous, just try for a month and rollback or, IMHO better, switch to another provider. I've been a paying Proton customer for years (all services) and I like it but it's not perfect either. If Proton goes to shit, I'll switch.
it’s European which I aim to support
Indeed, to be clear it's in Europe but not in a EU country "Proton services are operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland." but they are still GDPR (data protection law from the EU) compliant, cf https://proton.me/support/is-proton-mail-gdpr-compliant
Might want to look into Immich or PeerTube.
It's all marketing and propaganda BS... Europe remains a top player in R&D despite having just few few famous unicorns. It's mostly due to regulation preventing monopolies and the lack of VC (which has good and bad impact IMHO) but the deeper question is : so what? What does it mean when companies don't scale up by gobbling up competition?
So yes, the examples you give, and there are many more, do show Europe is managing to do all that, and I'd argue it's key, without being authoritarian politically nor as winner-take-all economically.
It's a balancing act but well worth the effort.