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GPUs might be 3 years but the rest of the hardware: processor cores, ram, storage can power other cloud applications for a decade or more no?

Can't stress enough how bad snaps have been.

Even when you do an apt install chromium , it does a snap install .. the worst part is snaps don't even work well everywhere.. (add to that the complexity of x11 vs wayland vs vnc)..

I really like my Cudy Wifi routers. They can run upstream openwrt (double check your version). They run some modified openwrt.

They're both cheap and quite good. They're what GL.inet used to be when i last purchased routers before this.

Back then everyone believed that. Even Android vendors. Motorola Droid did sell well. Touch screen typing was really annoying until Swype really took off.

Their Qt story was mostly geared towards their Linux phones. N900, N9 were the last of the kind. They killed the N9 before even it was launched. (The infamous Burning platform memo).

At that time, I genuinely believed that the N9 had the vision and design to beat anything Android was - at that time. Till date, it's still the best UX i experienced in a phone. Even a lot of Nokia managers I talked to called Elop a trojan horse from Microsoft.

But given how Android's source was open while Meego was anything but.. along with the whole Nokia + Microsoft drama... It's just a shame

At my current job, one of my biggest blunders was thinking "Let me just order the same hardware as most of my teammates to avoid unnecessary complications".

Most, if not all, of our current work happens on remote cloud vms. Now I'm stuck with carrying a 3KG monstrosity to work.Every day.

Absolutely no positives compared to my ThinkPad that weighed less than half in my previous job.

Remote development is "good enough" these days. With VS Code, Development containers etc... Having a light weight, portable laptop is so much nicer than a laptop that you can't even rest on your lap for long duration.

The only thing you need to be mindful of using light weight laptops is not having enough RAM to fit all your browser tabs..

But Pixel tablet is fairly old these days no? 3-4 years old these days?

Lately I genuinely believe that the future will be large frontier models generating and updating inputs/skills for "good enough" local models to solve our daily problems.

A lot of tasks which need a bit of intelligence don't really need that much compute. Just good enough documentation / skills, tool calling and a good enough local model.

Not sure what exactly this means for all those data centers that are getting built... But exciting times.

This is actually an interesting idea...

Especially if it gives us an insight into what prompts were given to generate something we approve of vs. something we disapprove.

Not just unedited but what feels like low information density...

For eg. If you're generating a whole document with a single prompt, say "write a document on how to implement this"

vs.

"Find various approaches to implement this. These are the approaches we already have. These are the constraints we currently have."

Then verify the generated text, remove useless hallucinations. Use the same AI to verify the generated output.

You're basically out of luck. This is happening all over the world these days with various government services.

It's not just for clients with no smart phones. It's also clients who activate developer mode on their smartphone etc... clients who use VPN. Clients who run AdBlocker. Clients who use Firefox.

There needs to be a severe push back against this.

Things have gotten so crazy that the homeless here are walking around with QR codes printed out when begging for money. I'm guessing they're a network of people who share the same smartphone/payment method..

A lot of "non Android Linux distributions" like sailfish os actually use a lot of Android infrastructure to keep working.

Drivers doesn't just mean the kernel. It's the user space binary blobs and services that need to talk to the kernel to enable the hardware.

Other than that there's waydroid, alien dalvik etc.. that run another Android instance in a container.

The thing is a lot of Android applications use safety net/other methods to make sure they only run on. "Approved"/stock hardware.

The bank website typically needs the app to enable two factor authentication in a lot of places.

For eg. There's no browser based alternative to make UPI payments that i know of.

Has anyone major used that for any production project though?