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TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch'
  • I agree with this, especially because this hasn't pushed any discussion forward about federal level consumer privacy laws in the United States.

  • Best way to get gunk out of my speaker holes?
  • Try a dry soft bristle toothbrush. I keep a few around to clean various electronics.

  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
  • Thank you! I was struggling to remember the proposal name.

  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
  • Google was working on a feature that would do just that, but I can't recall the name of it.

    They backed down for now due to public outcry, but I expect they're just biding their time.

  • Microsoft moves to resolve privacy concerns over its Recall feature
  • Not with this announcement, but it was.

  • What's the best affordable pre-built mini server?
  • It depends on the model you run. Mistral, Gemma, or Phi are great for a majority of devices, even with CPU or integrated graphics inference.

  • My home folder storage is full even though all the files only add up to 74GB out of 250 GB
  • There are hidden files and directories in Linux that begin with a period (.). You can show them with Ctrl + h if you have a keyboard.

    In case you weren't aware as well, Steam stores game files in a hidden directory in your home folder.

  • Why Do You Pirate Music?
  • Show me a music store I can purchase music from on my phone through an app, and I'll purchase it.

  • What are your must-have programs?
  • I'm also going to push forward Tilda, which has been my preferred one for a while due to how minimal the UI is.

  • What Rom do you prefer for your Pixel device?
  • Pixel Experience is unfortunately dead now. 🙁

  • Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives
  • Yeah - the operating system (or perhaps the display hardware itself, not sure) has to stretch each software pixel to a fractional amount of larger hardware pixels. In the case of upscaling 720p to 1080p, each 720p software pixel has to stretch to 1.33 hardware pixels. This forces blending to occur, which makes the image less sharp.

    The worst part of this in my opinion is reading text.

  • Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives
  • You also lose integer scaling if you need to run a game at common resolutions below 1080p. (720p/800p, etc.)

  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.
  • Now the question is - are they open sourcing the original Winamp, or the awful replacement?

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • We all mess up! I hope that helps - let me know if you see improvements!

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • I think there was a special process to get Nvidia working in WSL. Let me check... (I'm running natively on Linux, so my experience doing it with WSL is limited.)

    https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html - I'm sure you've followed this already, but according to this, it looks like you don't want to install the Nvidia drivers, and only want to install the cuda-toolkit metapackage. I'd follow the instructions from that link closely.

    You may also run into performance issues within WSL due to the virtual machine overhead.

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • Good luck! I'm definitely willing to spend a few minutes offering advice/double checking some configuration settings if things go awry again. Let me know how things go. :-)

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • It should be split between VRAM and regular RAM, at least if it's a GGUF model. Maybe it's not, and that's what's wrong?

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • Ok, so using my "older" 2070 Super, I was able to get a response from a 70B parameter model in 9-12 minutes. (Llama 3 in this case.)

    I'm fairly certain that you're using your CPU or having another issue. Would you like to try and debug your configuration together?

  • Advice - Getting started with LLMs
  • Unfortunately, I don't expect it to remain free forever.

  • Help Request: Rider IDE Crash on Ubuntu 20.04

    I've had an issue while using Rider IDE on Ubuntu 20.04.

    Every time I debug a project and then stop debugging, Rider crashes immediately without an error message.

    I did find that if I start Rider from a terminal or using the Jetbrains Toolbox that it does not crash afterward when I stop debugging. I'm not sure, but I'm assuming this is because Rider has a parent process in that case.

    Has anyone run into this issue? It's been driving me crazy since I usually launch Rider via the application menu or similar means.

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    Silverlight Just Won't Die: 'XAML for Blazor' Arrives
    visualstudiomagazine.com Silverlight Just Won't Die: 'XAML for Blazor' Arrives -- Visual Studio Magazine

    Userware is using vestiges of the long-gone and sorely missed Microsoft Silverlight web-dev platform to power its new 'XAML for Blazor' offering, which lets .NET developers use markup language within client-side Blazor applications.

    Silverlight Just Won't Die: 'XAML for Blazor' Arrives -- Visual Studio Magazine
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