As someone who works on embedded devices: HDDs are used for media storage and can be easily replaced. Any NAND as a limited life span and good embedded software will try very hard to minimise writes. Though in my particular area, there’s additional security constraints on the OS, which preclude any removable flash storage from being used.
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dublet@lemmy.worldto Risa@startrek.website•How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season ThreeEnglish11·2 years agoSeason 2 and 3 are better than season 1. But as a demonstration of how good it is, sometimes I forget ST:PIC ever existed. And I say this as a huge TNG fan.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia'sEnglish4·2 years agoSome of the LLMs it ships with are very reasonably sized and still be impressive. I can run them on a laptop with 32GB of RAM.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia'sEnglish6·2 years agoDoes GPT4all not allow that? Or do you have specific other models?
dublet@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens412·2 years agoWashing cleans genitalia, not surgery.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Risa@startrek.website•Nooo! He is a pretty cat, and a good cat!English12·2 years agoI’ve seen him make these remarks in some documentaries - I think - and it comes across as a joke.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trialEnglish26·2 years agoWorth noting that “con man” is short for “confidence man”. Inflated egos help with the confidence needed to trick people out of money.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Formula 1@lemmy.world•Formula 1 confirms Pirelli as Global Tyre Partner until 20274·2 years ago“Except sometimes you can’t use them more than 18 laps”
dublet@lemmy.worldto Formula 1@lemmy.world•Formula 1 confirms Pirelli as Global Tyre Partner until 20271·2 years agoIs it? I actively avoid their tyres. 🤷
dublet@lemmy.worldto Formula 1@lemmy.world•Formula 1 confirms Pirelli as Global Tyre Partner until 20272·2 years agoGiven the weird constraints of tyres in F1, I’m not sure how much value this partnership actually brings to Pirelli.
dublet@lemmy.worldto Formula 1@lemmy.world•Marko: "Perez must comply now, we must stop this negative spiral"171·2 years agoThe beating will continue until morale improves.
Two episodes even: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane
The Delta Quadrants is not featured in that image, only the lower two quarters. Putting into context, that map is the lower blob in this:
dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judgeEnglish21·2 years agoI switched to DDG recently after realising how much worse Google is for giving good results. After doing so on a trial basis, I’m now switching on all my devices as it’s just overall a better search experience for me. (Even if DDG is just Bing.)
dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook postsEnglish3·2 years agoLLM and AI gives regular people a lot of crazy power and creative ability that can challenge current power dynamics.
My view is opposite in that LLM and AI will further entrench the skewed power dynamics, as only really the big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google can fully exploit it, drive and and afford it. Sure I can run some LLMs on my computers at home, but you really need access to a lot of data and computing power to create the models in the first place.
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dublet@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVsEnglish1·2 years agoThe Dutch have had weight based roax tax for a long while: link in Dutch It just does not apply to EVs.
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