Not at all.

It’s a Gigabyte AI Top PC. It’s one of several such mini-PCs based on the Nvidia Blackwell GB-10 processor, in the emerging category of “personal AI supercomputer”. It’s not cheap but it’s not out of reach either.

I got my company to buy me this thing on the argument that the company shouldn’t use cloud services if possible on our sensitive code, and American cloud services even less, for obvious political and moral reasons. I argued that we should investigate the capabilities of this machine - or one like it - either to use as a shared AI server, or as an individual machine for all the developers here to use as locally-hosted AI coding assistants. My pitch made sense to my boss, so the company bought me this machine for me to investigate.

I’ve been using it since Monday for development and other things, such as translations, computer vision, general chatty thing, but also for traditional applications such as CAD, Blender, video editing and gaming too 🙂 I’ve been trying different models for different things, see how they perform, how snappy they are… I’m impressed enough that I plan on buying one for me and my wife at home. That one or maybe a slightly cheaper equivalent based on the same processor / memory, but without the connectors I don’t need. It costs a little over 5 grand.

FWIW, Ari Melber is right on the big AI steal.

I bought an AI rig this week and I installed Ollama and a few different models for coding and for general queries, and they basically have very decent and accurate answers for almost everything I ask them - particularly technical points. Clearly they contains a wealth of knowledge from other computer professionals, yet the models work totally offline.

In other words, this machine lets me tap into everybody’s know-how in my field without even being online. It’s like having the internet at home. Amazing! But that also means nobody got paid for what’s inside the models.

I’m much more interested in the clause authorizing any member of the Trump family to commit tax fraud with total impunity being dropped.

You know what’s next: when the bodies start to pile up, they’ll need some final solution to dispose of them. Some crematorium of some kind maybe…

Hmm… what does that remind me of.

Seriously though, I must have fallen into an alternate reality at some point. The Nazis aren’t supposed to be the American in cahoots with the fucking Israeli. This is madness. I want back into the normal universe where shit makes sense!

Schadenfreude is the word you’re looking for.

There’s ICE in his name. What did you expect?

homeschooled ICE morons

You wish they had even that level of education…

My cellphone hotspot’s SSID is set to “I can see you browsing porn…” I regularly turn it on in public places and discretely watch people raise their head from their screen and look around.

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Minor acts of resistance aren’t pointless: pointless acts of resistance are pointless.

Yes, boycotts matter. Real boycotts, like the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted for months and truly hurt the recipient financially - what MLK called “economic withdrawal”.

Punctual boycotts like buying nothing for one day, or not watching something on TV, are just feel-good stuff that actually achieve nothing at all.

Also, I will point out that it took a lot more than not listening to Hitler’s speeches on the radio to defeat him.

So yeah, do not watch the matches if it makes you feel better. But it won’t change a damn thing.

I won’t even watch it on the TV. That’s how much I dislike that fat cunt paedo

Not watching soccer on TV isn’t the anti-fascist resistance flex you think it is.

Actually, the 1936 Olympics were quite successful despite efforts to boycott them.

Let me guess: he aced it?

That demented fatso will die in perfect health. Which, ya know, is fine by me, if he could just hurry it up already…

Much too slowly if you ask me…

The key strategy in Project 2025 - which was written quite explicitly, and explained in a brutally honest way by that fat hobo-looking Martin Bormann wannabe Steve Bannon with his “flood the zone” statement, is to do egregious stuff so much faster than the justice can react that, by the time it does react, it’s already much too late.

If you ask me, one of the key reform that needs to take place when this bunch of second-rate fascists is out is to make justice capable of taking snap decisions, so it can react as fast as the zone-flooders.

This Kennedy Center naming thing is a totally minor issue compared to the other grave things the Trump administration has done and is still doing, it should have been a no-brainer from the get-go, and this decision should have taken place the day Trump nailed his name on the wall next to Kennedy’s, not months later.

The Cold War was 100% a war. Just ask any of the 3rd world countries that served as proxies and lost millions of people to a war that was definitely hot for them. And when I helped my old man build a nuclear shelter in the backyard when I was a kid, it sure felt real to me too.

Hell, today’s North Korea and Cuba are direct results of the fucking Cold War.

Let’s all remind ourselves what this dumb turncoat hick used to say about Temu Hitler:

Wars artificially boost economies, simply because military shit needs to be built during the war, and blown up shit needs fixing after the war. The French even have a word for it.

War also turbocharges scientific research, and post-war economies derive incalculable benefits from new scientific discoveries. You can thank Nazi Germany for the jet plane and landing man on the moon, WW2 Britain for the sonar and the computer (I guess you can thank Nazi Germany for those too in a sense…), Cold War USA for the internet, etc etc.

When all that artificial growth stops, unemployment returns, states borrow out of proportion to maintain social programs for an aging population, everybody gets poorer, lack of education and religious thinking come back as a result, people vote for populists to solve their problems because they’re not educated enough to know better, the populists start new wars, and when the war is over, everybody swears it will never happen, reconstruction begins, everybody becomes richer again, rinse, repeat.

We’re in the populists-start-new-wars phase now.

Intelligence has left Congress a long time ago.

Trump had said he doesn’t care about the mid terms

Of course he does. He doesn’t want to be impeached.