GlowHuddy

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[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could be both of those things as well.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm currently using that one, and I would happily stick with it, but it seems just AMD hardware isn't up to par with Nvidia when it comes to ML

Just take a look at the benchmarks for stable diffusion:

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm actually considering that one as well. Or I'll wait a generation I guess, since maybe by then Radeon will at least be comparable to NVIDIA in terms of compute/ML.

Damn you NVIDIA

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, was just reading about it and it kind of sucks, since one of the main reasons I wanted to go Wayland was multi-monitor VRR and I can see it is also an issue without explicit sync :/

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I have currently a RX 6700XT and I'm quite happy with it when it comes to gaming and regular desktop usage, but was recently doing some local ML stuff and was just made aware of huge gap NVIDIA has over AMD in that space.

But yeah, going back to NVIDIA (I used to run 1080) after going AMD... seems kinda dirty for me ;-; Was very happy to move to AMD and be finally be free from the walled garden.

I thought at first to just buy a second GPU and still use my 6700XT for gaming and just use NVIDIA for ML, but unfortunately my motherboard doesn't have 2 PCIe slots I could use for GPUs, so I need to choose. I would be able to buy used RTX 3090 for a fair price, since I don't want to go for current gen, because of the current pricing.

So my question is how is NVIDIA nowadays? I specifically mean Wayland compatibility, since I just recently switched and would suck to go back to Xorg. Other than that, are there any hurdles, issues, annoyances, or is it smooth and seamless nowadays? Would you upgrade in my case?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I'm currently using GNOME on Arch(btw), since that might be relevant

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Interesting thought, maybe it's a mix of both of those factors? I mean, I remember using AI to work with images a few years back when I was still studying. It was mostly detection and segmentation though. But generation seems like a natural next step.

But definitely improving image generation doesn't suffer a lack of funding and resources nowadays.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, we didn't choose it directly - it just turns out that's what AI seems to be really good at. Companies firing people because it is 'cheaper' this way(despite the fact, that the tech is still not perfect), is another story tho.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Super + T my favorite

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For Logitech devices there is also Solaar.

You can check if it has the functionality you want (not sure, since I haven't used it much and only for basic stuff).

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Thinking about it from your point of view, maybe MS was right and Linux is a cancer too. Technically it behaves similarly to systemd, since most Unixes are actually Linuxes nowadays (excluding BSD ofc, but they are still in the minority, similarly to alternatives to systemd). It even is a binary blob as well!

Should every distro use/develop a different kernel? Should we focus our resources on providing alternatives and again have a multitude of different Unix versions, every incompatible with each other? Isn't it better that we have this solid foundation and make it as good as it can be?

Overall I think standardization of init is not so bad, just like adopting the Linux kernel was. It is actually quite nice that you can hop from distro to distro and know what to expect from such a basic thing as init process.

Anyways, in Linux land you actually have a possibility to replace it. Granted, it is not as easy, however there are plenty of distros that allow you to ditch systemd in favor of something else.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think most of the times, if you don't run very sensitive enterprise grade machine there isn't much point to it.

Maybe run it once in a while if you really want to.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I do periodic backups of my system from live usb via Borg Backup to a samba share.

[–] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I started to look at wine/Proton as just another linux runtime. At least now game devs have sth (mostly) stable and backwards compatible that they can target. It is really important since in Linux world, things are much more prone to experience breaking changes. Also the fact that game devs just need to develop one version for both Linux and Windows makes it super easy to target proton - you even don't need to have a separate build process. Hence we get a more 'refined' version than just half-assed port made by a small team or third-party.

So I'm quite happy with how things are now. It just shows how flexible and capable Linux really is. And who knows maybe in the distant utopian future, Linux (or sth based on it similar to chomebooks, but maybe not as gimped) will pick up market and we will have much more "native" runtime.

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