I’m sick and tired of the Capitalist religion and all their fanatic believers. The Western right-wing population are the most propagandized and harmful people on Earth.
If you want to avoid that, then you should actually move to China or Iran, and use their national services outside of 3-letter integrated meta/twatter/alphabet and the rest of the US/western informations-sphere, incl msm. US/the West are the most information controlled population in the world - and exposed to most censorship, surveillance and propaganda. You’ll be a lot safer in Iran/China…
Not sure why that would be a good thing ? Please just fail gracefully - thanks…
So the US might end up having faster processing in their mobiles for a while yet, but Chinese mobiles will compensate by being more mobile. We may see new and interesting battery inventions… Great countermove to US chip dominance.
I have a few super old phones/tablets I didn’t threw out for some reason. IF termux can be installed, does the Android version mean anything for the running services ? My latest Android device is version 7.
I think US are now ‘nanoseconds’ AFTER China, and that gap is just accelerating faster and faster. US/western commoners should prepare for when the AI bubble-financing implode…
Looks cool and simple. Here’s for convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkriZGyjoeU
Agree. “Are you perhaps too angry?”, “The HELL I’m not! F*ck off !”, “alrighty then”…
Not judging ? I assume you mean ‘free’ ? It is more difficult now. Groq.com once claimed that they didn’t collect data from the free service, but I just checked their privacy rules, and they have now learned the proper Capitalist virtue of surveilling their users and sell their data. Perhaps one of the other fast npu endpoints, cerberus, or sambanova, that are not directly focused on selling data ?
Duckduckgo ai doesn’t require login, but are very limited for chat.
Alternatively, pick free Chinese AI services ? I guess the data they can accumulate are pretty useless to them unless you buy much over there, but not sure to be honest.
Maybe a vpn and gpt4free ? Someone can see and train on your messages alright, but they don’t know who. This gives different models each time, so maybe not cool.
Something like aihorde maybe okay. Your messages are openly processed elsewhere, but you are not likely to be tracked. There’s a lot of personal chat models available. It afaik still requires a ‘small’ nvidia card to join in. Vpn could help anonymity.
Compute prices are not going down. If you want a budget friendly compute, then you may need to look for NPU’s. They are slower, and is unfortunately also getting more expensive pr TOPS. Electricity prices in the West are going up as a low output gets bought up by datacenters instead. The newest GPU’s are more efficient in re. to power pr Top, but they are not budget friendly.
I have not seen a recent comparison of GPU vs Npu; TOPS vs price vs power consumption, but @ aliexpress, I saw a small 40 TOPS Npu as a nvme stick with 16gb ram that draws 10 watts, or so (search for ‘ai accelerator nvme’). This little thing can scan files 24/7 and your i5 can help out in peaks. Afaik you can run a distributed model that also runs in, and uses your i5 memory/compute, so if you max out i5 memory, perhaps the combined compute is enough for a larger model ? Maybe a few Npu sticks can work together on the same model ?
Alternatively, you could look for the next version of a Huawei gpu card (first had baby kinks afaik), or one of the other upcoming producers from China. They’ll come faster and faster, but are earmarked for local consumption first.
Another suggestion is to buy one of the old P40/80 (from the ‘pascal’ chipset, I think) (or was it k40/80 ??). They should still support a descent range of modern quantization needs and often have 24gb ram. A refurbished miner card cost around 50-70$+ - cant remember exactly tho.
Lastly, you could try something different. If the i5, with enough memory, can run a large model slowly, you could add a dedicated KV cache, so most of the tokens won’t need to be recalculated. Memory and bandwidth are the most important here, but any old server could be upgraded to be a dedicated KV cache server (might need a network upgrade tho!).
Anyway, Ideas are easy and cheap. If I were you, I would ask an AI for a little python app where you can add a product and it returns a graph where it compares with other products and show optimality over time given prices/power and Tops - Gpu vs Npu. Good hunting…
Seems incompatible with Capitalism. ‘Surveillance-capitalism’ is a huge problem, and no other system in history have gathered so much private data about its citizens. Everything we do on the internet, or in some closed ecosystem, is indirectly monitored and the market system knows all about us, our activities, our social groupings, opinions etc and this knowledge is not used for our benefit. Further, as long as we might influence the system, or as long as we might have digital data ‘belonging’ to someone else, capitalism will step in and take control of our ‘privacy’. We and privacy are a threat to that system…
This will not only change the global power balance away from the insane Empire, it will also change global transport as we know it. Ships, flight or just about anything big that moves or need power will benefit from this. Local mini nuclear power stations may be a thing. That means that Russia have a golden egg here - not quite like AGI, but close.
The Western ‘free market’ religion is getting clubbered - and it does some of the good work it-self ! …and that’s after the West’s Plutocracy have spent/wasted trillions of stolen resources over the last 75 years trying to keep all other descent social systems/nations down. Monetary and political colonization have taken over as the Western Plutocracy’s favorite conquering tool, after several hundred years of using military as a tool for colonization. The amount of information control in nations under the ‘free market’ occupation are staggering, and the price and suffering for the whole world are immeasurable and will always remain as an embarrassing moment in the history of our “Civilization”.
Welcome to a new global multi-polar leadership that will propel us all past the feeble, inefficient and Psychopathic Western society/belief system and culture (my ex-culture…).
…unless, oc, the Psychopathic elite in the West decides to set the world on fire - killing even more millions - trying to rescue their “Empire of Lies”. It won’t take long before the Fascist empire will implode…
It won’t be nice to hear, but here goes… Because the ‘woke’ movement pushed by the Dems, were really just a psyop - propaganda - to create hatred against orthodox Russia/Putin. Remember pussy-riot, the Gay Putin memes etc ? They were all US supported/instigated narratives pushed in Nato + especially Ukraine for many years. Now that the campaign didn’t amount to the expected result, the US plutocracy/MIC don’t need/want it anymore, and not all Dems were onboard with the ‘hippie’ psyop that went against their core morale. They are likely pushing back now.
Obama/Biden and other top Dems knew all along that it were just a campaign to pump up hate in a move against their perceived enemies, and don’t care shit about ordinary people and their sexuality - or life really. I mean, when did US top politicians suddenly grow a desire to defend the little guy ? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Re. social media/censorship. US spends a ton of resources grooming social media platforms for ‘proper’ western/liberal content/values, and the TikTok issue - among many - are an attempt to control information on that platform also. Specially young people have via uncontrolled media, seen what happens in israel/gaza, Ukraine/Russia, and even seen how China is really like, and even become friends with them. The young people on uncontrolled media (non US sphere of interest) are - according to the US leadership - getting behind the ‘wrong’ party in masses. That made the US Plutocracy flip out and make all kinds of problems for the Chinese company (hundreds of fake rumors, tariffs/pressure, and now money to buy it. The whole shebang were rolled out for ‘National Security’, which oc is just the security of the Plutocracy - not the people…
I think the ‘normal’ prosecuting morale is coming back - unfortunately. …and fascism - that were already here before Drump - will become much worse as the US plutocratic regime decline into recession/crash. Be careful over there !
Wasn’t this the same natural glue the Chinese used for their latest bone2lock (?) bone cement ?
I haven’t tried it but Radicle sounds cool ? Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.
There are some dev/repo tools, but I don’t know how they compare with commercial platforms.
No, and they are supported by US gov (last check), so no good can come of that.
! “CCP” is the best tell, to see if someone have been propagandized ! “CCP” is used as a slur in those circles, and even using it casually shows exactly what limited and biased sources the person have chosen.
But at what cost ? …no, wait… never mind…