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> As an owner of one of these pair of headphones, I'm trying to understand what this brings to my life? It's not clear why this app is specifically useful for sony headphones?

I own the WF-1000XM3 (earbuds). All these headphones and earbuds have a mobile app to control the advanced features. I used to use them with my Mac for work and it was always super-annoying to accidentally tap ANC off or tap "play" while taking them off or putting them on, but during call you couldn't fix it because it'd be in "call mode" and disable ANC/playback/... control. I guess headphones are less annoying because they have a bigger pad to tap, so less chance to misclick, but the earbuds were a constant annoyance.

> QFN Q4 K XL Unsloth is basically identical to the bf16 model.

Yes, but like original poster I have 16GB of VRAM and 64GB of RAM, I was referring to non-Strata benchmarks :)

I did quickly run a couple things on Strata but haven't gotten around yet to benchmark bigger models/customize them with Strata, but will do rather soon. So far Strata/Swift IQ2_XS performed really well compared to non-Strata/Qwen3.8 quantized variants.

> This is not about if a frontier AI provider is cheaper. It is about having control over your data and use of AI.

Yep, totally get it, and to be honest getting to run ablated models sometimes can also be useful.

> Also YMMV in “faster” — I have less than 5K into my home AI lab shenanigans and it’s pretty fast :)

My rig is... ~1.5k, maybe 3k if we count the CPU and GPU upgrade since 2019 :-D I really wanted to grab one of the latest mini-PCs (Halo, Spark, and other minor assemblers) for local setup, but to be honest I can't justify a 6k+ purchase for me and my wife alone. Perhaps in 3 years these mini-PCs will get to the ~2k ballpark (perhaps used), and although older by then, I might be able to run things 24/7 locally as well.

They normally have to ask for dates, permits, are normally driven by groups that have been around for long, they have websites, they have a list of asks, etc etc.

Compare that with violent ones that see the opportunity coming with 3-4d heads-up (because peaceful protests are normally covered with a little advance - 3-4d - by mainstream press), create an Instagram/TikTok/Whatsapp/Snapchat group, spread it aggressively thanks to zero cost of social/IM, and their only objective is to smash everything in their path (and if they manage, steal some loot to resell).

Social/IM platforms are literally where the violent ones organize. Nobody has issues with the peaceful protests, but in the past couple weeks it's become very clear that violent rioters use the excuse of the peaceful organized protest to infiltrate and wreak havoc, using the peaceful demonstrators as essentially meat shields. That needs to stop. And without readily available social/IM platforms, there's no way the violent ones can coordinate in the hundreds/thousands on a couple hours notice.

I once worked in L1 support, and because we had to take calls @07:00 sharp (we were the only number a company of 40k people could call) and Windows updates were still a multi-hour endeavor, I stuck to rebooting daily (or shutdown+startup) all devices I use heavily, including MacOS.

Over the past 8 years that has basically solved every bug all my colleagues ran into with MacOS. At some point my boss wasn't getting calendar notifications anymore for a couple weeks, "did you try and reboot?" fixed it in 5m. He later mentioned he hadn't rebooted in 7 weeks.

I don't understand why people treat Apple devices like unbreakable analog AM radios, they're very complex computers like any Windows or Linux machines, with a huge state machine beneath it that is easier to reset daily/weekly than to keep working properly for months.

After its commercial span is over, over 90% solar and battery materials can be recycled to make new panels and batteries. Compare that with nuclear where we need to stow away basically-forever-radioactive spent material.

We have a giant fusion machine in the sky delivering energy in great excess what we use, and we only capture a tiny fraction of it at the moment. We can make each household practically independent. Fission and (hopefully soon) fusion will be good for meeting grid demand when renewables can't, but a distributed grid is simply more resilient to everything, from local events to country and nation-wide disruption of central generation points.

This, I repasted my wife's Zephyrus laptop which had liquid metal for the Ryzen APU (6900HS), regular thermal paste for the GPU (3080) and thermal putty for VRMs.

Redid APU and GPU with PTM and VRMs with paste. -10C on average on the APU with way lower idle temps, and GPU went from being thermally throttled at 60W to being able to push until 110W. Fan is basically silent for 3 months now, whereas previously I could hear it from the next room.

I always wondered how long it would last tbh.

I've always used source-based packages, but chromium was the one I simply dropped in favour of Firefox.

On a 16c32t / 64G machine, compiling Firefox takes ~1h with LTO and PGO, while Chromium already took 5+h in 2019 without PGO. Then they removed jumbo-build because there were some issues and kept adding code and toolchain deps (jumbo-build is a build step that merges a few hundred source files before compiling to do the header processing once, shrinking the build from 5h+ to ~1-2h). Last time I checked the build had 70k+ build steps, with the final link step easily taking 10m+ with LLD. Answering some other comments: ccache doesn't help, because every version will have some minor header changes somewhere, so basically the entire cache gets invalidated even within the same major (e.g. 151.44.22.11 to 151.44.23.28).

And I have no idea what kind of driving he's doing to spend 2-3k$/y . I got Front Upper Control Arms replaced under warranty, exactly once, in the lifetime of my 2019 M3 (also Fremont-built). I do a yearly inspection just to catch issues before they have a chance to become really problematic, but for the past 4 years I've always been told that "the car's underside is just perfect, there's nothing wrong with it".

> speed limits are generally well below what is safe

I used to think so, but no, not in a school zone or cities at least. They might be safe for the car, but not for pedestrians and cyclists. Those are road users, and speed limits take them into account as well. That's also why you don't see 25mph limits on highways: pedestrians are not allowed there, and the lanes are designed to support high speeds, so the risk for all allowed users is lower and limits can be higher.

Couple that with the fact that everyone wants to ride the fine-limit (and not the road limit) and a 50mph road becomes effectively a 55-60mph road, because you know, shaving 1m off a 1:30h commute is such an achievement.

Some people here complain about 30mph limits, but in EU many city/school zones are becoming 18mph or even 12mph. Two reasons:

1. An impact at 12-18mph might break your leg, but you otherwise have a very good 100% recovery chance. At 30mph, major injuries become more common, and you risk crippling another human being for life. And again, 12-18mph for many people really means +5-10% or more depending on the fine, so 15-25mph in reality.

2. (not accounting reaction time in the following) At 12-18mph, an SUV can break in 13-30ft on wet pavement, which means you might bump someone and they might break a bone or two, but will otherwise probably be okay. At 30mph that's 115-150ft, which means with the little space you might have, there's no way you're going to stop in time to not run them over and cause them major damage.

> Are they dumb or is it intentional to keep their cities small and exclusive?

Madrid has 3.4Mln people and is the second-largest city in the EU. How big do you want it to become?

I disagree on "just build more". There was a time where salaries moved more or less line with cost of living, and especially rents, but with AirBnB and estate funds sucking up any and all places they find, there's an enormous pressure that drives up rents for common people, which already struggle as-is to make ends meet. "Just build more" would simply keep pushing those towards the edges of town over time, while the city becomes a glorified luxury hotel that only rich people can afford. I welcome new regulation to combat this.

I just hope this event shatters any hope for the ultra-right parties that voted against it, and that people remember this. Ultimately, if anyone will build more, it'll still be the large real estate companies and funds that keep increasing rents on their tenants.

> Cosmic has been in beta for how long ?

I daily drove the alphas before the betas, and of course there were a couple rough edges. But I had a minimal working desktop instead of sway or KDE/Gnome (too heavy).

It has been releasing non-betas for a good year now, and it's been a smooth sailing.