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• Qwen is what I’ve found to work the best for me so far. I haven’t done an exhaustive search or anything, but the mixture of experts 35b models seem to work pretty well.

  I’ve got a little more vRAM to play with, 20GB. It still struggles with giving it enough context to be useful for agentic stuff.

  on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I don’t know if any TVs are actually using it, but Amazon Sidewalk is a form of LoRa, low power, low bandwidth, long distance communication. It’s designed to let non-internet connected devices phone back home. I hear it is very popular with shipping trackers because you can put a small device in a pallet and have it send it’s GPS back for free. I’m not sure it would support the GBs of data TVs are phoning home with each month, but it could certainly send some data home.

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Youtube has been feeding me Omarchy video lately, it seems like every single one I tried to watch brought up using Grok. I don’t know anything about Omarchy, but it was enough to give me the feeling something wasn’t right.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Other way around. PrusaSlicer came first. It was originally a fork of Slic3r, then Bambu and OrcaSlicer forked it. Prusa certainly has back ported some features from OrcaSlicer, which is the way open source should work. Everybody wins.

  on An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• I pay a premium for Prusa because I like their philospohy of making as much of it as possible in house, and their general openness, not just in code, but in how their business functions.

  My first 3D printer was a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic. I’m very willing to spend if I think it will benefit the entire ecosystem I’m interested in.

  Also, with Prusa, I get to feel like I’m DIYing it, but with great and detailed instructions, and an all-in-one parts sourcing. They are also great at supporting their devices after the fact, which is sometimes necessary, because they often come out a little too hot.

  on An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• I disagree, it will be worse in almost every way for war than quad copter with a gun mounted on it. Once the brains catch up, maybe, but for now it’s going to trip at the first slightly uneven flooring or raised threshold, and completely destroy itself on a power cable laying on the ground.

  on Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• It’s a dumb promotional thing, they aren’t “Premiere"ing the game, they are are showing gameplay footage. It’s an Ad that Netflix users are paying for the privilege to be advertised to.

  on Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• It’s pretty clear that robotics hardware has advanced way beyond the software. Do a backflip? No problem, that’s a predefined routine with good secondary control mechanisms to handle the variation between requested movement and actual movement.

  Pick up a dish? Well, that’s going to take vision, control, understanding of how the grabber and various materials interact, and then fuse all that data into an expected result and a plan of action, then control of unexpected things like the plate slipping or the floor being slightly wet.

  It’s amazing how far we’ve come and how much it has highlighted how far we have to go.

  on Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Obviously I don’t know your setup, but Linux is far easier for printing in most cases. The drivers are built in, and just work. No third party driver packages full of spyware and ink ads necessary.

  Hardware support, in general, has always been a struggle for Linux, but in the last few years, two things have happened to tip the scale:

  1. Technology kinda stopped advancing. Products are, more often then not, a rehash of last years model with no major changes. This means if Linux gets support for last year’s device, it’ll probably work with this years with minor to no changes.
  2. Growing Linux popularity has increased the profile enough that companies are at least trying a little to support Linux, even if it is mostly just making sure Linux developers have documentation on the device.
  3. And secret number 3, the tools and systems for reverse engineering USB devices have gotten better and more understood.
  on Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• AI is finding bugs, which are getting fixed. That’s great, it means a more secure and stable system. As these vulnerabilities are patched out, they are gone forever(regressions not withstanding).

  Theoretically, Linux could become perfectly secure. It’s not going to stop people from doing insecure things, but it could mean there are no unintended security weaknesses. We could hit a point were an “LTS” copy of Linux never receives a single security patch, because as long as the code isn’t changing, there’s nothing to fix.

  Of course, this is all theoretical, and assumes that new classes of attacks or bigger chains for attacks are never found, but vulnerabilities should be a finite resource in a static codebase, and once that resource is fully exhausted, the code is now fully safe.

  Ideally, open weights or open source models catch up, and this can all be done without paying a ransom to OpenAI or Anthropic, and is available through the whole stack, not just kernel level.

  on Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026