And any divergence from that is “ruining games” or “being woke” to the point that we don’t even GET those games outside of the rare case of a game nobody cared about becoming popular

I would argue the origin is sales. E.G. the publisher wants the sex appeal to sell, so that’s what they put in the game. Early ‘bro’ devs may be a part of this, but the directive from up top is the crux of it.

And that got so normalized, it became what gamers expect. And now they whine like toddlers when anyone tries to change it, but that just happens to be an existing problem conservative movements jumped on after the fact.

TL;DR the root cause is billionares.

Like aways.

From: https://sofrep.com/news/conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-valley-university-event/

From the audio, I would speculate that a suppressed weapon was used to shoot Kirk from his left at a fairly low trajectory. It does not appear that a hollow-point round was used, as this would have likely caused more damage at the entrance site, which was the left side of Kirk’s neck.

SOF personnel I have spoken with regarding the shooting estimate the shot may have been taken from roughly 200 meters away.

Reddits ‘top’ subs are run by the same circles of small moderaters and flooded with bots. It sorts posts and comments with algorithms.

I’m sure plenty is real, but the sentiment is manufactured. And I’m sure smaller subs are more pro-palestine to the extent they don’t get shadowbanned.

Yeah. But it also messes stuff up from the llama.cpp baseline, and hides or doesn’t support some features/optimizations, and definitely doesn’t support the more efficient iq_k quants of ik_llama.cpp and its specialzied MoE offloading.

And that’s not even getting into the various controversies around ollama (like broken GGUFs or indications they’re going closed source in some form).

…It just depends on how much performance you want to squeeze out, and how much time you want to spend on the endeavor. Small LLMs are kinda marginal though, so IMO its important if you really want to try; otherwise one is probably better off spending a few bucks on an API that doesn’t log requests.

In case I miss your reply, assuming a 3080 + 64 GB of RAM, you want the IQ4_KSS (or IQ3_KS, for more RAM for tabs and stuff) version of this:

https://huggingface.co/ubergarm/GLM-4.5-Air-GGUF

Part of it will run on your GPU, part will live in system RAM, but ik_llama.cpp does the quantizations split and GPU offloading in a particularly efficient way for these kind of ‘MoE’ models. Follow the instructions on that page.

If you ‘only’ have 32GB RAM or less, that’s tricker, and the next question is what kind of speeds do you want. But it’s probably best to wait a few days and see how Qwen3 80B looks when it comes out. Or just go with the IQ4_K version of this: https://huggingface.co/ubergarm/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF

And you don’t strickly need the hyper optimization of ik_llama.cpp for a small model like Qwen3 30B. Something easier like lm studio or the llama.cpp docker image would be fine.

Alternatively, you could try to squeeze Gemma 27B into that 11GB VRAM, but it would be tight.

How much system RAM, and what kind? DDR5?

ik doesn’t have great documentation, so it’d be a lot easier for me to just point you places, heh.

What’s interesting is they file this in the US.

Is there a reason they don’t file patents in Japan instead?

Original source:

https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/

I hate to be nitpicky, but try to link the original, and post where you found it (GameRant) in the description instead.

At risk of getting more technical, ik_llama.cpp has a good built in webui:

https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/

Getting more technical, its also way better than ollama. You can run models way smarter than ollama can on the same hardware.

For reference, I’m running GLM-4 (667 GB of raw weights) on a single RTX 3090/Ryzen gaming rig, at reading speed, with pretty low quantization distortion.

And if you want a ‘look this up on the internet for me’ assistant (which you need for them to be truly useful), you need another docker project as well.

…That’s just how LLM self hosting is now. It’s simply too hardware intense and ad hoc to be easy and smart and cheap. You can indeed host a small ‘default’ LLM without much tinkering, but its going to be pretty dumb, and pretty slow on ollama defaults.

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It’s not. Ellison is shady AF.

I mean:

• Chromium, binary release

• Chromium, CachyOS AVX2 build

• Thorium

• Cromite

Edge Linux was weirdly performant when I tested it.

Not only did it benchmark better than plain Chromium (or Bromite or Thorium back then), but it seemed to behave better with Wayland. It was, indeed, be best Chromium Linux browser.

Shrug.

A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales.

I’m surprised its mild enough for them to claim this so far.

I know the Canadians are pissed, but are all y’all’s peers on other continents mostly… indifferent? I guess it’s egotistical to assume people generally follow American news, but some of it really seems hard to ignore.

relatively minor efficiencies don’t make up for the compile times lol.

It’s sometimes even a regression. For instance, self-compiled pytorch is way slower than the official releases, and Firefox generally is too unless you are extremely careful about it. Stuff like Python doesn’t get a benefit without patches.

I think the point of Gentoo is supposed to be ‘truly from source’ and utility for embedded stuff, not benchmark performance. Especially since there are distros that offer ‘march’ optimized packages now.

What Toot said.

Things I would emphasize are:

• The community “critical mass” is amazing with the wiki, online posts and such. You get a lot of support that isn’t ancient, jank and ad hoc like Ubuntu.

• Arch emphasizes paying attention. It’s not a hands free OS: you have know what graphics drivers you run, and what your desktop environment is. When you update, you have to watch the log for emergency messages and such, including official notifications from the arch repos themself. It’s not a “hands off” OS where you can operate without knowing anything about it, but the reward is that shit gets fixed quick, officially, without having to stray from defaults and break your system, or accumulating a bunch of hacks you have to maintain yourself.

• Much of Arch’s bad reputation comes from AUR. Don’t use anything from the AUR (instead of an official repo package) unless you absolutely have to. This is when stuff starts breaking. Installing standalone apps that aren’t on the repo via AUR is fine, but to be clear, avoid things that integrate with the system if you can.

• It doesn’t have to be hardcore barebones like Gentoo, there are all sorts of Preconfigurations like Garuda and Endeavor. I recommend CachyOS (which I have kept for two years now, and will into the future).

There are a couple of historical examples that escape my soft brain, but ivermectin is a big one.

Basically, during COVID-19, some rural doctor in India published a paper on Ivermectin reducing COVID fatalities. Which is great!

…Because Ivermectin is a livestock dewormer. It’s an anti-parasitic, so it reduced the chance of co-infection with parasites in rural India (which would weaken your immune system so you’re more likely to die of COVID).

But the anti-vax crowd lost this nuance in the paper and ran with this as an alternative treatment, misinformation that still persists today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19_misinformation

…That’s whats about to happen.

Tylenol (acedomediphine) will be forever linked to causing autism, true or not. No one amount of refutation is going to kill the meme.

And Folinic acid, whether its a provably effective treatment or not, is not going to get touted by the anti-vaxx crown who ‘believe’ in its efficacy.

That’s the sad thing.

The sentiment is good. MAHA pounding Big Processed Food and Big Tobacco and (to an extent) Big Pharma and such is great.

…If only the specifics weren’t so awful.

Especially as a ‘disease,’ not a spectrum.

Not to belittle the effects on people of course.

Brace yourself, folinic acid and acedomediphine are about to be politicized. I’m reading up before the noise is too loud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folinic_acid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

And the pages are locked, if not defaced, lol.