I run Qwen 3.6 27B quantized down to Q4_K_M or even a variant Q5_K_S on my 8gb VRAM entry level AMD GPU, with support of my CPU and 32gb system RAM. Yes, I also limit the Context Length heavily to something like 18k. It’s slow. But the point is, you don’t need necessarily 16gb VRAM.

But it’s better to use faster models for this type of hardware anyway. The MoE type of models (such as 26B A4B, or 35B A3B) are vastly, vastly faster for normal usage, but they are a bit worse in some cases. Also Googles QAT trained model versions also have less RAM requirements without losing much quality.

I’m just saying that, so others are not discouraged too much. It’s not the same experience as the full version off course, but you can use them with some tricks on weak hardware too.

Since couple of years I’m hard working on playing old games I slept too long for.

DOOM (PC, 1993): Yes, the original DOOM! Well, I had the game on my SNES console. The problem was, that version was not good and it lacked a save or password function. Still had a blast because that was the only version available to me. Later when I got a PC in 2001, it didn’t occur to me to play that. Its’ much, much later in probably 2020 or so when I started with RetroArch, that I then played the original DOS version on DOSBox-Pure. What a blast, even 3 decades later!

Metroid Prime (Gamecube, 2002): Another huge Nintendo game (actually not even developed by Nintendo) I slept on is the original first Metroid Prime, had no idea how good it is. My friend always talked highly on this game, but I completely dismissed it because it was in 3D. Yes, I was a Super Metroid junky. What a mistake! I feel ashamed thinking back. Started playing the original for Gamecube with Dolphin on RetroArch emulator a few years ago, but never finished it (really need to, I feel ashamed again!). I know there are some enhancements via specialized emulators and even the official Remake. But prefer the original oldschool way, even down to CRT filters.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild + Tears of the Kingdom (Switch, 2017 + 2023): Probably the biggest game I slept on for too long. I entirely played both games on Yuzu emulator (take that Nintendo), starting over 2 years ago. Since then I have 147 + 237 = total 384 hours. There was couple of problems, because my gamepad did not support gyro (thanks Microsoft) and I had to cheese out on a challenge (no cheats). And there were a few technical difficulties due to emulation, but I managed to do everything. :-) These modern Zelda games changed my mind a lot about Open World games, and I became more open to these kind of games.

The Stanley Parable + The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (PC, 2013 + 2022): This is a fun story. So back then I purchased the original Stanley Parable just for the lolz to get the “infamous” Achievement “not to play the game for 5 years straight”. Yes, it’s true, I’m an idiot. Or I am not an idiot. Maybe I am both. Or None. Because you see, after 5 years passed I started the game and wondered why I do not get the Achievement. Turns out the game should have been started at least once! Facepalm. Ok, I’m an idiot…

… Well since I started the game (The Stanley Parable) and was curious, I started playing it. Or it started playing me, I don’t know. Had no idea what the game was and is about. And oh boy it was fun. Well since then I wait another 5 years and I think next month I can get it! And while I am at it, also played “Ultra Deluxe” and it is more than I expected, no spoilers off course here. The special Achievement is now 10 years in this version. The Stanley Parable changed my mind about games that are more experience oriented and weird, like walking simulators.

There are more games to mention off course. And yes I play modern games too, just started Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. I still have to finish lot of them. The problem is, I start new games all the time and don’t even have time to play them all. Then there are games I know that I regret waiting for too long, such as Hades, . I could go on for an eternity, you probably don’t want to read an endless stream of a comment.

This is not personal.

XBOX too.

Just because you like children does not make you an evil person.

I think you guys misunderstand my critique here.

I’m not talking about any article (your provided link from 2015, probably the one the tweet is talking about? But we don’t know which study they are referencing) or personal experiences (as in the other replies to me), but about the study not linked that is been talked in the screenshot. The problem I have is, to present a narrative, then screenshot it, share without any links. We don’t know if the study they talk about in the screenshot is real or any good. There is no transparency here.

Edit: Okay, so it seems like this article might be the origin of the tweet context. Looks like this article is cited often in the web, I searched it a bit. Wish these links were provided when sharing. Thanks for finding it. Also interesting the alternative theories in the same article:

There are two alternative social explanations for our results. First, players could be responding to the novelty of having a female voiced teammate in a male-dominated environment. Indeed, a female speaking while playing first-person shooter games is rare as none of the 189 players recorded were female. However, novelty is not the driver of the differences in behaviour as performance and skill mediated the number of positive and negative statements. Second, individuals may simply be responding more aggressively towards individuals with a higher pitched voice (a female in this case), as dominance is predictable by voice pitch [38]. Although we cannot rule out this possibility, it’s still in line with our finding that individuals feel more threatened by lower-status individuals.

Add “RTFM” to the list.

Kinda curious does the same principle apply in other aspects of life?

I honestly doubt the study was done properly. It sounds like made up of people hating woman, just to create friction. Maybe there is a study, made by woman in example (doesn’t have to) who felt attacked often. Yes, there are hostilities towards woman, but also towards men in general. There are many reasons. Sure some of them act like this for the described reasons in the tweet, but we don’t know how many. I’ve seen lot of stupid studies before.

Unfortunately without links such as to the original tweet or better yet, to the study, we will never if this is made up or if even the study is done properly.

Original Early Access price was 20 Dollars. First increase was when it went out of Early Access, and then one or two more to 32. Game became an unexpected phenomenon and sold very well, an increase was not required. It was most likely greed. Compare this to other games prices, which usually decrease over time and offer discounts, even indie games.

According to the Factorio dev(s), its anti consumer tactic to put games on sale. Because those who purchased it have wasted their money. This is not my opinion BTW. Lookup why they don’t put the game on sale. In fact, they raised the price twice (at least). That’s super consumer friendly!

I stopped watching him after what Gamers Nexus covered. So missed everything what happened after, besides the Linux coverage, which I watched as reaction videos from Linux YouTubers.

Your derived situation was made up AFTER the post and our discussion, just to justify your position wanting to be an idiot. It was a free form hypothetical situation without further rules. You yourself imposed the rules on you and others, just so you can be right. And now you start attacking people who do not agree with you. Maybe you are the idiot in the room right now, but you probably feel safe knowing nothing and trying to learn how to carve a stone. No my friend, I’m not an idiot who wants to be an idiot under any circumstances. Idiots don’t learn. Intelligent person learns from mistakes of idiots.

OK then, read on. Let’s say you are an intelligent person with lots of knowledge. Let’s say a score of 150 of intelligent knowledge, a hypothetical metric. But you want to learn something new, so what you do? Off course you go to a fairy and wish you were an idiot / dumb. Now your score is 45. That means you lost all of that, just to try to learn something new and to get a position where everyone is. And because you are an idiot, its really really hard to learn anything, and it takes ages to get a score of 90. If you didn’t wish that, you would be at 150 and maybe you learn a bit and get 160 and you are scratching highest score what is even possible.

Don’t get pissy when people call out your ignorance how to play, willful or otherwise. Accept your defeat.

You come up with a contrived scenario and very specific situation just to justify being an idiot. No. Knowledge is not the same as being intelligent, idiot is not the same as dumb. Its incredible how you guys come up with stories just to justify being the dumbest or only idiot in the room. An idiot means its not able to learn anything. Also why is the focus on learning something so high in these replies here? And who says I’m trapped in this room forever?

An intelligent person can learn from the failures of idiots. That’s why he is intelligent. An idiot can not learn. That’s why he is an idiot.

If Linus goes Linux as their main system and its reflected in their channel topics, then after years I might go back to watching his Tech Tips.

Didn’t I just told you that? You “meant”. What do you mean I don’t believe that? I just told you that I realized you was talking about dumb instead idiot, because you used it interchangeably.

No worries. As for checking it out myself, its a bit too much work to download iso and install the operating system just to check something for a random question. :D And searching the web is a bit difficult because of the name of the app “Discover” is not very unique. I’m not planning on using Kubuntu anyway, it was a curious question, so not important at all.

I know that Discover does not support native repositories on Arch based systems. So my expectation is it has something to do with that. On Kubuntu there is also Snap, on top of Flatpak and native packaging. I assume it was confusing to deal with all of that. It’s not really a unique “problem” to Kubuntu. Just looking here a bit https://kubuntu-docs.readthedocs.io/en/22.04.0/software-management/repositories.html .

Thanks for the replies, never mind and have a nice day.

No, I meant Intelligent people can be idiots too. Idiot does not mean dumb. So what you are asking is not idiot vs intelligent, but dumb vs intelligent.

What do you mean “differently”? I know that “Discover” only works for Flatpak in Arch based systems, such as EndeavourOS and on SteamOS. I never used Kubuntu or KDE on Ubuntu.

yt-dlp has an option to rename downloaded files to restrict to ASCII characters (and another option to restrict filename length). I usually use my own wrapper script around yt-dlp, but I guess you already have your own. So for that, you can use the option --restrict-filenames to “Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid “&” and spaces in filenames”. See all options with man yt-dlp. Try it out.