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  • I’ve read you can force the new Vulkan Driver on it with some kernel flags.

    Not gonna lie, that sounds beyond my scope. Once I got llama.cpp compiled, everything just worked. I would have no idea how to troubleshoot anything.

    I saw a video where someone got the new Indiana Jones running on a Vega 64, so there’s really no telling what’s possible on AMD hardware. They put so much effort into designing chips, but so little into supporting them.

    My laptop (RX 7600s) gets more tokens/sec in Vulkan than in ROCm. I don’t know what that’s all about.




  • I know it’s a matter of personal preference, but for me:

    General search

    1. DuckDuckGo - It’s really just Bing in disguise, but I daily drive it to keep some distance between me and Microsoft.
    2. Bing - I know, weird choice, but DDG filters their results even after you turn off Safe Search.
    3. Yandex - Great if you’re searching for stuff that Bing might filter, or the US gov’t might censor.

    XXX stuff

    1. Bing - Bing has been better than Google for years now, for images and video.
    2. Yandex - Maybe better than Bing, but you need to translate a lot of results from Russian

    Reverse image search

    1. Yandex - Best, hands down. Google is actually 2nd best, just stay logged out and use private browsing mode.
    2. Bing - Pretty good, but not quite as versatile as Yandex.


  • I hate Trump (really I do), but I can’t argue with this. Inflation happens; stamping out a piece of copper alloy has lots of fixed costs. We used to have a half cent coin. Things change.

    The real question should be “why do they have to print so many pennies every year?” Paper bills last an average of 18 months before they need to be replaced, but coins don’t typically wear out. Where are these pennies going?









  • I don’t, but I kind of wish I did. When I was growing up (in the 80s), my mom didn’t do laundry on Sunday, and she didn’t let us do it either. My dad, even though he was a reverend, didn’t care, he just did laundry. She grew up AME(African Methodist Episcopal) and he was Baptist. I don’t know if that had anything to do with it.

    Her parents went even further. Sunday was a day for enjoying a nice home cooked meal after church and then listening to gospel on the radio (one of those big console radios with a record player). They didn’t do anything else, no chores, housework, etc.

    I miss it a lot.