You are absolutely right. Baffles me why they’d put 128GB of RAM in there and use an SoC arhitecture where RAM is shared with GPU, to the detriment of readability, if not for AI.

Any gamer would prefer upgradable RAM and upgradable GPU, especially from Framework.

How else would you explain this decision to compromise their brand values and overspend on RAM, if not AI?

For gaming, yes.

But the Framework Desktop seems to be made for a different usecase:

128GB of unified RAM

Unified means both CPU and GPU have access to it. Why would you need so much RAM and why would you care if the GPU has direct access?

Neural Networks. You can fit a pretty serious LLM into 128GB of RAM, and if GPU has direct access, still run inference at reasonable performance.

I love my 9070XT, but you can’t run anything approaching what Claude or ChatGPT gives you in just 16GB of VRAM

Yeah it’s been great for a few years but it’s slowly falling apart. I’ve been putting off getting a replacement as it looks like the only options are downgrading or triple the cost (or more)

I use a Reverb G2 which is directly driven by the host pc through OpenXR, no compression or onboard processing at all.

I only use it for flight sims.

Understood, I’m wired so no compression. It works well for me

Try flight simulators in VR. Upscaling saves you at least €400 in GPU cost

Note that Frame Gen does not help here, as not getting nauseous in VR requires low latency. Frame Gen actually increases latency.

Proton already had PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 though?

Been using it on my RX 9070 XT on CachyOS for months now

So, fish are paraphyletic to whales?

It is possible that this misgendering was part of a pattern of abuse: there are laws against being abusive to your coworkers.

This publication is clearly trying to make it look like using the wrong pronoun accidentally will cause “the gays” to sue you for tens of thousands, which is obviously nonsense.

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If selfhosting the family chat is not a goal in itself and it’s about privacy or being independent from big tech, just take the loss and go to Signal. Much smoother experience than any self-hosted messenger can provide for now.

@Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone this feeling you describe, is exactly how I feel every time I see one of your posts on Lemmy.

Thank you for the good vibes!