Re: Two points

vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

Two points:
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1) It's surprisingly easy to get the Hurd running in a
virtual machine with kvm:
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$ uname -a
GNU hurd 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20240714-up-amd64/Hurd-0.9 x86_64 GNU

Interesting.

2) I own two Mac mini's, which are sitting in a drawer.  They
were made from notebook equipment, and they are crap.
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One of them came with 4GB of RAM, and ran like a dog.  Thankfully,
I could add more (notebook) RAM, bringing it up to 16GB.  Then
it ran acceptably, probably because it was caching the slow, slow
drive it came with.
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So we have a Mac Studio now, which is a low-end UNIX workstation.
They aren't cheap, with a price on the order of magnitude of what
I paid for my Linux workstation.
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Eyeballing the results, it looks like it renders Fooocus images about 1/4
the speed of my Linux workstation.  I thought it would be a lot
faster, but I guess pytorch doesn't support hw acceleration yet -- or
the hardware on the Mac is no match for an RTX 3090ti w/24G of memory.
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You can say what you want, but I'd much rather use my Thelio
than the Mac Studio.  YMMV.

Fuck Apple.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.