sith

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[–] sith@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I believe most people overestimate intellectual and conscious rationality. Among themselves and others. The rationalizing is usually there afterwards. To justify current emotions, actions and circumstances.

Self preservation, since one can't control much anyways. And one needs a somewhat coherent world view.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago
[–] sith@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I find it quite simple. Voters are economic left/progressive and social right/conservative. Center left parties are economic center and social left. The trend is similar in all western countries. And it's a bad match.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'm only interested in the "least bad" here. Taking usability, libre and performance into account. I don't think that even the Framework Laptop 13 RISC-V will be completely libre.

Thanks for input though!

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Actually, it is not true from what I've learned. For example, Intel is about to push chipset/bios upgrades to boost the performance of the new Core Ultra 9 285k. And that kind of driver can at best be open source and in the upstream kernel or at worst closed source and only installed by some windows only bloatware.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Nice website! Thanks!

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Having to use windows when upgrading firmware is very Linux unfriendly.

 

The talk is that the Core Ultra 9 285K works better with Linux than Windows. What's your experience? And how well does it work with Proton?

 

I'm looking into buying a new system and I wonder which of all the mainboard manufacturers you recommend for Linux in general and gaming in particular? Which ones have the best Linux driver support and which ones publish open source drivers? Are AMD or Intel chipsets preferred?

Also general best bang for the buck recommendations are appreciated!

And yes, I have googled this and I have some ideas, but I'm interested in what my fellow Lemmies think. And I also want this information to be here on Lemmy instead of Reddit or AI generated blogs. If you feel offended by this, you're totally free to not reply and also down vote this post.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I think I have a better understanding of the PCIe hardware protocol now. Feel a bit more confident regard a 2 x8 setup. Thanks.

Just for the record: my understanding is that the HW protocol performs a handshake which settles the number of lanes that will be used when establishing a link. And the PCIe standard is always backwards compatible, so things should work just fine even if I buy something that says PCIe 6.0 later. Or at least the lower layers of the protocol should be compatible. And as long bandwidth isn't an issue.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Your contribution was noise. Not an answer. Do better next time.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Maybe I should rephrase my question.

Are PCIe 5.0 or backwards compatible 6.0+ devices (GPUs), that say x16 (16 lanes) in their product specification, required by the PCIe standard to also support only 8 lanes? I.e. can the device transceiver decide to not connect if not all lanes are available at the protocol level? I'm not referring to slot size here.

The thing is that there are motherboards that have 2 PCIe 5.0 16x slots that are connected to the CPU (hopefully not false marketing). But the slots are downgraded to 8x if you connect two devices, since a AM5 CPUs only have 24 lanes.

I probably need to read the PCIe 5.0 standard document if I want to be sure.

 

This is related to my previous question about AM5. Turns out 2 8x lane GPUs on AM5 might be an option after all.

So my question: Does a 16x lane PCIe GPU always support x8 lanes as well? (Like a Radeon RX 7900 XTX or something bigger and better from the future.)

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sith@lemmy.zip to c/amd@lemmy.zip
 

Hello!

I'm looking into buying a system for running inference with small to medium size LLM models. I wonder, is there any AM5 CPU + Chipset combination that supports 2x PCIe 16x with all lanes connected directly to the CPU? From what I've gathered my understanding is that there is no such configuration because the Ryzen 7000/9000 only have 24 PCIe lanes at best. This means I have to go for a Threadripper configuration, which is much more expensive. (The ROCm mGPU documentation states that all lanes shall be connected directly to the CPU.)

It's possible that I can manage running two GPUs with 8x lanes, but it's for sure not optimal..

But the thing is, it is quite hard for me to navigate the AMD website and the websites of various motherboard producers. I might very well be wrong.

So again: Is there any AM5 CPU + chipset combination that supports 2x PCIe 16x with all lanes connected directly to the CPU?

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sith@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It's much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it's good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it's easy too Google something (well, it isn't nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it's always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

 

Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sith@lemmy.zip to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
 

Howdy!

I recently started using LibreWolf (because there is no good Firefox package for Guix ATM). However, when I tried to install my standard extensions, I was redirected to the Mozzarella web page. I thought "fine, I'm a good GNU citizen" and installed a few extensions. But soon I realized that the were seriously outdated and also dysfunctional. For example, the Bitwarden extension is from July 2023.

Shouldn't LibreWolf stop sending users to Mozzarella if it's a dead project hosting outdated extensions, considering all the security issues that implies?

 

The Nato chief is saying that North Korea is getting access to Russian missile and nuclear technology, in exchange for troops. If this is true, should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea before these new technologies are properly integrated and utilized?

 

What does this mean? Have they hacked a Matrix server, a client, the protocol, or is there some other underground chat-app called MATRIX?

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