It is the world’s first open 3T-class model

Good lord that’s a lot of VRAM. Hopefully soon there’s another phase of finding good ways to distill this recent progress into smaller models I can actually run locally.

I’ll give my own nerdy answer, besides the “good for amateurs” one.

Personally, I’m pretty techy, but I use my PC primarily as a living room gaming PC. As such, keeping it working is paramount, although I can’t resist tinkering with it anyway. I was afraid an immutable OS would limit my tinker projects, but I’ve found it to be a total non-issue. Even for complex tasks like self-hosting AI to play around with, podman has served admirably. Honestly, it gives me confidence to try more ballsy things than I would otherwise, rather than limiting me.

Additionally, I like the feeling that my core system is essentially unbreakable. Even if I ran sudo rm -rf, I don’t even have the ability to truly pooch things. Similar deal for any virus or hacker that might access my hardware, you can’t hide weird behaviour deep in my system, it’s immutable. I’ve also crashed my computer a few times by blowing through my VRAM budget while tinkering with self-hosting AI, and such crashes don’t scare me, I’ve got easy rollbacks if I crashed my PC while it was doing something delicate.

I’m even running the testing branch right now (I want earlier access to the latest Mesa, as it has bugfixes for the DOOM DLC), and I don’t have to fear anything from an unstable branch. If it breaks, I can trivially rollback and switch branches to the latest stable in a few minutes, with immense confidence.

I love the assurance it gives, and the only thing it’s ever blocked me from doing was installing my VPN client, but an OpenVPN config has done that job just fine. I’d consider switching to CachyOS, but the main reason I haven’t is that I’d miss the comfort of my OS being immutable.

Probably so, unfortunately. Every Steam Machine out there now has an owner, and that was all they could manufacture in the past six months.

By the sounds of things, there’s also a lot of reservations out there without a Steam Machine to sell them, and given the RAM crisis, production likely isn’t increasing.

It’ll be a while before they’re looking for more registrations.

Man do I feel that PS, I think the worst part of gaming on Linux (which is massive credit to how well it works) is not knowing whether a bug is just… the game, or is somehow Linux/Proton/Drivers. I hate not knowing if it’s worth stopping to look into a fix or not.

Was quite excited to try this, but uh… well, DOOM: TDA (what I’ve been playing recently) won’t start on this version.

At least the fun stuff they’ve borrowed from CachyOS works if I switch to CachyOS-latest for now.

Same, the game is in a wild state. The proton hotfix freaked KDE right out, and Proton GE appeared to work, but started consistently crashing while I was meddling with settings, I can’t even run the benchmark anymore. Returned for now, I’ll wait for a sale before trying again.

KDE freaking out on proton-hotfix (Epilepsy warning):

Don’t think so! The texture pack comes with its own custom version of Dolphin, or at least settings for one, so you could look into that if you really like, although emulating that would definitely have downsides compared to Dusk.

Dusk already punches up some visual effects, like better quality bloom. Will probably continue to improve over the next year or so as well, if you wanted to wait for an even better experience.

Haha, I figured some folks would be looking, so I already made another comment with a little guide!

Already shared my thoughts on [email protected], but I was playing on Linux, so:

Been playing this, and it’s great! Started right up at 9x resolution, wasn’t too hard to setup a high quality texture pack, and the game is looking sharp at 4k/120 without any issues!

Things look great, and this launching with features like gyro aim, free cam, and QoL like fast climbing and skipping that damn rupee cutscene is phenomenal.

Also, man, can’t wait to come back to this in a year or two with a randomizer and whatever other features they can pack in here.

Ah, they do indeed have a warning at the top about that. Thanks for the heads up!

Kinda unfortunate, I guess I’m stuck here then, because there’s no way I’m starting from scratch with all my modded games, emulators, etc.

Ooh, I had no idea such a thing might have an effect this pronounced. Definitely considering making the switch myself, between this and their recent VR mode work, gotta look into rebasing my bazzite image.

Same, it’s what I personally use as well. I had to somewhat learn my way around photoshop to navigate designs as a web dev at a prior job, so I find the interface a lot more intuitive than GIMP (at least when I last used it several years ago) with that prior experience.

Oooh, SteamOS switching to Wayland by default? Looking forward to some of the Steam compatibility fixes from that move making its way into Steam on other distros.

Definitely somewhat, but not so much “diminished my enjoyment” as “prevents me from doing as a hobby”.

Programmer here, and I find that working on these types of problems just wears out that “part” of my brain. It becomes not fun to force myself to focus on those things as a hobby anymore, despite that being how I got into programming. I don’t resent it though, I actually really enjoy doing it as my job. And shake it up a little, and I’ll hugely enjoy something like programming systems in Factorio, but any ambitions I have of say, making a game, aren’t happening until I retire or change careers.

I assumed you were exaggerating, but literally the first paragraph states they’re “punting into the stratosphere” the “concept that you have to pay to play a game”. What an insane false equivalency.

Pirating it is still illegal, and pretty much every game is cracked and distributable eventually, making it no different than this case. This reads like either a very uneducated reporter, or some kind of deliberate propaganda on behalf of tools like Denuvo.

Fans of emulator progress reports are eating good with this one, so much is happening in Dolphin right now!

Ah, Windows and OneDrive. A match made in hell.

I’ve despised them ever since I built a Win11 PC, it was enabled without my consent, immediately stopped me from adding any new files to my Desktop+Documents once it ran out of the pitiful 5 free gigabytes, and promptly deleted all of my data from those folders when I deactivated the “feature”.

That miserable experience, combined with every third update putting me through a setup that employed dark patterns to try to trick me into turning it back on (not to mention my fears that they’d pull the same crap with Recall), was the main thing that caused me to ditch Windows. I don’t like feeling dread every time there’s a new update, assholes.

Fair, I definitely haven’t simped for them in the past just because they post some good articles on AI safety.

Although… I’ll say of them, they seem more like what OpenAI should be, actually trying to implement AI responsibly, and freely sharing that information. It’s good research, even if marketing is the motivation. Meanwhile OpenAI, the “charity” that’s supposed to guide us to a responsible AI future, moved their most addictive and mentally dangerous model to the highest paid tier instead of actually killing it until very recently.

Although at the end of the day, Anthropic is a for-profit company, in a better world they wouldn’t have released models publicly before this research was actually done and pressing dangers like AI psychosis were actually safeguarded against. Better late than never, sure, but the whole industry has done a lot of damage already, and the work of resolving the issues still isn’t even close to done.

I mean… this is losing them a 200 million dollar contract. And to one of their competitors who will gladly acquiesce, so it’s hard to argue that this benefits them.

Good marketing to a bunch of left-wing people who hate AI, I guess, but that feels like Elon joining the Trump administration in hopes of selling Teslas to rednecks, it might work on a few, but I just can’t imagine this is 4D chess that will make them a fortune when they’re abandoning that much money immediately.

Their statement also came after the DOW threatened to put them on the list of companies that are totally banned from doing any business in America, usually reserved for Chinese companies that are deemed a national security threat, which would make it illegal for any company doing business in America to do any business with them, as they’d be added to the same list, which would have essentially killed Anthropic as a business entirely.

You don’t have to love Anthropic because they did a good thing, they were fine with anything less than automatic killing and mass surveillance, after all, but I don’t think it’s correct to say this was sneaky and spineless somehow.

What assumptions do you mean? I’ve seen a few people say that, but I don’t actually understand what they’re referring to. Here’s the text of the question posed in the article:

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

The question specifically notes they want to wash their car, so that part isn’t left to assumption. Even if you don’t assume an automatic car wash, would you assume they have a 50m hose? Or that you could plausibly walk that far away with something from the car wash to wash your car?

Personally, I’d agree with the assessment of the article, that the only plausible way to get the question “wrong” would be to focus too much on the short distance, missing/forgetting that the purpose of the trip requires you to have the car at the destination. (Not too surprising that 30% of people did lol)