Indeed. And honestly, for example GOG classics are worth to support and also come with the added benefit of being usable on modern systems out of the box, with emulation readily setup if needed.

Cornell Unversity owns ArXiv.org, that doesn’t mean they have much to do with the content of that article, as they clearly state that ArXiv.org is not peer-reviewing articles hosted there.

I have to correct myself. The 140W were the desktop system. With everything included (screen etc) I just checked and had a power draw of 166W at the power outlet. Those aren’t TDPs, that is the actual power draw including PSU losses and it is also the max draw, it doesn’t really get higher than that. My system is only 4060 like in performance, it is actually a Strix Halo with an integrated 8060s, with a combined CPU+GPU TDP limit of 100W. That has the advantage that I basically have no VRAM limitation (in Indiana Jones: The Great Circle I saw pretty continuous 12 GB memory used by the GPU) at the downside of limited bandwith, still quite close to a 4060 but much lower than high end GPUs of course.

Yes, my system is absolutely not representative. It was one of my goals to get an as energy efficient setup as I could while getting the necessary performance to be able to play modern games.

On modern gaming PCs 500W actual power draw during gaming does sound possible, on my previous system which had a pretty similar performance, but with dGPU (6750 XT). There I had a power draw of roughly 280-300W without the screen, during gaming, if I remember correctly.

Not quoting the primary source does not per chance have anything to do with the source being a not peer reviewed archive of the Cornell University, does it? I wonder, is that normal in the field of AI research?

That is a choice. My desktop setup, including speakers and monitor (measured at the power outlet), uses below 140 W at full load in games, for 4060 levels of performance. Yes, your system is likely faster but I can play all modern games with it, at a level that is good enough for me. And I don’t sit in a sauna while gaming as a consequence. In other words, for that 5 sec AI video I can play 7 hours on my system and that does not even consider the tons of energy spent on training the model.

The Volla Quintus appears to be almost identical, to the Daria Bond that is sold in the UAE. Specs look identical from what I could see and the only difference I can make out are very minor design changes in the back side shell. Volla’s marketing and statements are pretty misleading about that. I am not saying they should not work with Chinese OEMs but they create the impression there was meaningful customisation going on from their side, maybe there was but it looks very much off the shelf from an OEM model.

At the same time Volla also sells Plinius. It is actually a stronger phone, for a lower price than the Quintus but looks very much like the strongest Gigaset phone (which is lower mid-range), so should be actually manufactured in Germany (as much as any phone in Europe could possibly be I think). It is bewildering that they don’t put the Gigaset model square and centre.

They might think that they are upholding open source secure communication but what they are really achieving with it is fortifying the US big tech duopoly. There are other aims than theirs, of maximum security, in the EU we are facing the real and very relevant issue of digital sovereignty, which is separate from the ambition for getting hardened mobile systems. Sure, possibly legislation would be preferable to regulate and open up what Google’s Play Integrity API is doing, but as long as that legislation does not exist, creating alternative systems is crucial.

I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t really about the UA but the private feud of Graphene OS developers with pretty much every single other alternative OS or degoogled android. Yes, they are all less secure than Graphene OS, primarily because Graphene OS relies on huge man power effort by Google to keep the firmware at the cutting edge with swift security updates. That is all good and fine, for their cause but it is not the only legitimate cause out there.

The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.

And yet, the Eu has given the largest aud of all to Ukraine so far. Hungary makes a fuss and things complicated but the EU can always fudge around it, it just causes a slight delay.

If you bully Germanball or EUball enough, you’ll get Reichtangle though.

Heroic is great for newer stuff but I still have Lutris because some older games work there out of the nox just fine while they don’t even launch in Heroic.

Trump makes George W. look like a super intellectual pacifist. Almost likeable… almost.

You don’t need internet to rollback to a previous snapshot before you nuked your system files by editing that config to turn Wayland off. But given that this is in the past, it is water down the river I guess.

To be precise, it is not a “toggle button” as such, it is a menu at the bottom left that is defaulted to X11 but can be switched to Wayland. Tumbleweed also has snapshots. I don’t know how messing around with Wayland could make even launching into a snapshot impossible but I never messed with Wayland/X11 either.

France has already its own independent nukes. No need for reinventing the wheel. The umbrella merely needs to be enlarged.

Interesting. In Tumbleweed, one can switch between X11 and Wayland with a simple toggle in the login screen. I haven’t experienced any issues going back and forward.