It is marketed as such, but I see that as an insult to my intelligence and a bar with which to measure expectations among my fellow countrypersons.

My first Samsung phone was very low end from back in the early naughties when they were insignificant. They had far better connection reliability compared to anything else at the time. Samsung’s coup of the market was their investment in cutting edge fab nodes. For Japanese car manufacturers it was the just-in-time supply chain and teams based organization with better pay in the assembly line with a far better distribution of responsibility than the antiquated labor systems that trade unions remained insistent on maintaining due to their simplicity and ineptitude for change even after a superior system is demonstrated.

If you can objectively think about the timeline of the late 80’s and early 90’s, if monolithic Toyota, Honda, and Nissan dealerships had appeared to completely overtake the American manufacturers in the number of models available, options range across models, and longevity while the total number of sales for these brands far exceeded Chrysler, GM, and Ford, it would be a politically polarizing situation in a country with deeply xenophobic tendencies. Splitting up the brands made the numbers more palatable against the American brands, even though Chrysler was already nothing more than a label on nonunion foreign made goods. This was a political move for the Japanese auto industry and part of the Regan era cutting of the American middle class and labor. It was an admission of our absolute ineptitude across the board; were not smart enough to remain flexible in business and labour; we are not smart enough to understand the complexity of available products like the rest of the more intelligent world. The two paradigms are correlation by an assumed ineptitude that ironically most are still proving if they can not step into the abstract self awareness required to see past the hand holding spin doctor narrative to ask hard questions about their reality and stomach the results objectively.

People don’t seem to understand Raspberry Pi’s at all. It is a market manipulation scheme that can not be beat commercially because it is not run like a capitalist enterprise. It is a scheme to prevent bottom up competition from beating Broadcom’s proprietary monopoly of low quality junk. The chips Rπ are selling are off of a trailing edge node with, and are a failed product line of TV tuners. The ARM core of the chip is only 1/4th of the actual die. The chips are made in a fab that only produces them when there is no other paid work. This entire supply chain is barely above cost. The reason Rπ is a foundation and a dot org is because the entire endeavor is a tax write off for Broadcom. The reason it is centered out of the UK is so that it distances public awareness of the scheme. Broadcom has no public documentation of the vast majority of their hardware. Between Qualcomm, that uses the same proprietary business model, and Broadcom, these are the two primary reasons behind why you no longer own your devices in a perpetual cycle of artificial deprecation. This entire scheme is designed to avoid scalability from the bottom up by companies like Rockchip. If this still doesn’t connect in your mind, think of Japanese cars in the USA and abroad. They build high quality low end cars and created value at the bottom first. With time they scaled that value and overtook all segments of the market. They even split up their companies to avoid the perception of their real dominance using Honda = Acura, Toyota = Lexus, and Nissan = Infinity, because the majority of the public is too stupid to see and understand such simple obfuscation measures in practice.

10%. That is 10% of the population. It’s far too optimistic. But it is reflective of a generation of total ineptitude. When faced with efficiency improvements these imbeciles extract that capital to flush instead of using it as an opportunity.

Slowly trying to learn sh while using mostly bash. Convenience is nice and all, but when I encounter something like OpenWRT or Android, I don’t like the feeling of speaking a foreign language. Maybe if I can get super familiar with sh, then I might explore prettier or more convenient options, but I really want to know how to deal with the most universal shell.

MIPS is Stanford’s alternative architecture to Berkeley’s RISC-I/RISC-II. I was somewhat concerned about their stuff in routers, especially when the primary bootloader used is proprietary.

The person that wrote the primary bootloader, is the same person writing most of the Mediatek kernel code in mainline. I forget where I put together their story, but I think they were some kind of prodigy type that reverse engineered and wrote an entire bootloader from scratch, implying a very deep understanding of the hardware. IIRC I may have seen that info years ago in the uboot forum. I think someone accused the mediatek bootloader of copying uboot. Again IIRC, their bootloader was being developed open source and there is some kind of partially available source still on a git somewhere. However, they wound up working for Mediatek and are now doing all the open source stuff. I found them on the OpenWRT and was a bit of an ass asking why they didn’t open source the bootloader code. After that, some of the more advanced users on OpenWRT explained to me how the bootloader is static, which I already kinda knew, I mean, I know it is on a flash memory chip on the SPI bus. This makes it much easier to monitor the starting state and what is really happening. These systems are very old 1990’s era designs, there is not a lot of room to do extra stuff unnoticed.

On the other hand, all cellular modems are completely undocumented, as are all WiFi modems since the early 2010’s, with the last open source WiFi modem being the Atheros chips.

There is no telling what is happening with cellular modems. I will say, the integrated nonremovable batteries have nothing to do with design or advancement. They are capable monitoring devices that cannot be turned off.

However, if we can monitor all registers in a fully documented SoC, we can fully monitor and control a peripheral bus in most instances.

Overall, I have little issue with Mediatek compared to Qualcomm. They are largely emulating the behavior of the bigger player, Broadcom.

The easiest ways to distinguish I’m human are the patterns as, others have mentioned, assuming you’re familiar with the primary Socrates entity’s style in the underlying structure of the LLM. The other easy way to tell I’m human is my conceptual density and mobility when connecting concepts across seemingly disconnected spaces. Presently, the way I am connecting politics, history, and philosophy to draw a narrative about a device, consumers, capitalism, and venture capital is far beyond the attention scope of the best AI. No doubt the future will see AI rise an order of magnitude to meet me, but that is not the present. AI has far more info available, but far less scope in any given subject when it comes to abstract thought.

The last easy way to see that I am human is that I can talk about politics in a critical light. Politics is the most heavily bowdlerized space in any LLM at present. None of the models can say much more than gutter responses that are form like responses overtrained in this space so that all questions land on predetermined replies.

I play with open source offline AI a whole lot, but I will always tell you if and how I’m using it. I’m simply disabled, with too much time on my hands, and y’all are my only real random humans interactions. - warmly

I don’t fault your skepticism.

Qualcomm and Broadcom are the two biggest reasons you don’t own your devices any more. That is the last option anyone that cares about ownership should care about. You should expect an orphaned kernel just like all their other mobile garbage. Qualcomm is like the Satan of hardware manufacturers. The world would be a much better place if Qualcomm and Broadcom were not in it at all.

I found a Python project that does enough for my needs. Jq looks super powerful though. Thanks. I managed to get yq working for PNG’s, but I had trouble with both jq and yq with safetensor files. I couldn’t figure out how to parse a string embedded in an inconsistent starting binary, and with massive files. I could get in and grab the first line with head. I tried some stuff with expansions, but that didn’t work and sent me looking for others that have solved the issue better than myself.

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No. I don’t think so. The lead researcher left because of it.

It is way more. It is a means of manipulation and influence over your decisions, and the decisions others make about you. The issue boils down to a fundamental principal of your right to autonomy. If you play out this philosophically, it is an attack on your citizenship and democracy itself. Autonomy is a fundamental cornerstone of democracy. Attacks on autonomy are attacks on democracy.

? They are all bad at first for the average person that uses surface level tools, but SD3 won’t have the community to tune it because it is proprietary junk and irrelevant now.

So can I bang on the Intel 12th gen P-cores with the enterprise microcode to see if they are really fused? I promise to isolate the CPU set if I can pretty please have access to the full AVX instructions for use with llama.cpp. Pretty please.

So no, the marketing shysters are simply trying to silence the self aware minority. /s

Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.

I have no idea what a monkey knife is. Monkeys with knives… knives made of monkeys… pejorative… metaphorical…

Only fools buy and compare hardware now. You shop for hardware by shopping for FOSS software first.

The only real choke point for present CPU’s is the on chip cache bus width. Increase the size of all three, L1-L3, and add a few instructions to load some bigger words across a wider bus. Suddenly the CPU can handle it just fine, not max optimization, but like 80% fine. Hardware just moves slow. Drawing board to consumer for the bleeding edge is 10 years. It is the most expensive commercial venture in all of human history.

I think the future is not going to be in the giant additional math coprocessor paradigm. It is kinda sad to see Intel pursuing this route again, but maybe I still lack context for understanding UALink’s intended scope. In the long term, integrating the changes necessary to run matrix math efficiently on the CPU will win on the consumer front and I imagine such flexibility would win in the data center too. Why have dedicated hardware when that same hardware could be flexibly used in any application space.

I only need the ram to initially load an AI model.