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Something like 90% of food in all US restaurants is from Sysco, US Foods, or similar.

Some of them purchase ingredients from those companies, and then make the food using those ingredients.

A great deal of restaurants, though, simply purchase pre-made frozen foods from those distributors, re-heat, and sell it to you at a premium without disclosing while you think it was freshly made. Mac & cheese, stuffed peppers, lasagna, burritos, most 'bar snacks' you can think of, etc.

There's stark contrast for an average human visiting the landing page of bsky.app vs nostr.org

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Performance (tok/s and PP) or quality (model size)? Pick one.

In terms of GPU memory bandwidth (models fitting in the ~48GB of RTX 5000 Pro card), the RTX card I described above has over 2x the bandwidth of an M5 Max.

If leveraging system RAM (the 128GB-256GB outside the GPU) to run larger models, then the memory bandwidth is ~6x slower than M5 Max.

For models fitting in the ~48GB RTX memory, like dense Qwen3.5 27B models, the RTX will be 2-4x faster than M5 Max. For models that don't fit in the 48GB RTX memory, the M5 Max will be 5-20x faster.

Also worth considering future upgrades: Do you plan to throw away the machine in a few years, or pick up multiple used RTX 6000 Pro cards when people start ditching them?

At $7.2k + tax:

* RAM - $1500 - Crucial Pro 128GB Kit (2x64GB) DDR5 RAM, 5600MHz CP2K64G56C46U5, up to 4 sticks for 128GB or 256GB, Amazon

* GPU - $4700 - RTX Pro 5000 48GB, Microcenter

* CPU/Mobo bundle - $1100 - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, MSI X870E-P Pro, ditch the 32GB RAM, Microcenter

* Case - $220, Hyte Y70, Microcenter

* Cooler - $155, Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer III Pro, top-mount it, Microcenter

* PSU - $180, RM1000x, Microcenter

* SSD - $400 - Samsung 990 pRO 2TB gen 4 NVMe M.2

* Fans - $100 - 6x 120mm fans, 1x 140mm fan, of your choice

Look into models like Qwen 3.5

If you want consistency, you only need to convince everyone to switch to a single font renderer (e.g. freetype). That won't happen, though, because OS font renderers have quirks that cause them to render the same things in subtly different ways, and users have come to unintentionally expect those quirks. Even if rendering is 'better' in one app.. if it doesn't match the others or what the user is used to.. then it won't 'feel native'.

Maybe if what freetype is pushing for (fonts are WASM binaries) continues to take hold, and encompass more of fonts, we'll find more consistency over time though

I think a better UX for average consumer would be more a side-swiping filter menu similar to that of social media mobile apps, with different non-math style names "default blur", "circle blur", etc. Especially as more people do not use desktop computers today.

Also maybe LLM integration so you can just explain what you want done, then it does it, instead of needing to follow some tutorial to learn the software