OK but I need a Linux with GUI that is less than 1.44MB so it works with my floppy disk.
Not sure why I was downvoted. I legitimately need this for a demo.
Readit Newsvid commented on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop tinycorelinux.net/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
vid commented on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop tinycorelinux.net/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
OK but I need a Linux with GUI that is less than 1.44MB so it works with my floppy disk.
vid commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber
> I think the article's opening assertion is not true
The link you provided does not appear to contradict the assertion in any way. "We have not cut off services to the ICC" != "We have not cut off services to one specific sanctioned individual who just so happened to coincidentally be on the ICC". The linked article even mentions Microsoft were pressed on the specific subject of the individual rather than the ICC as a whole, but declined to comment, so it looks like a regular case of weasel wording to distort the truth.
Difficult to say exactly, and that's part of the problem, which is why my comment is about not being dependant on closed foreign companies.
vid commented on Datacenters in space aren't going to work taranis.ie/datacenters-in... · Posted by u/mindracer
To say the quiet part out loud, I don't think any serious companies have any intention to build a data center in space. There is no benefit in actually trying this. There is however, benefit in saying you'll do it to advance a narrative and distract from the problems terrestrial data centers are facing to an audience that mostly doesn't understand how heat transfer in a vacuum works.
I always assume, unfortunately, that once companies start to get to a certain point they become strategic, and military applications comes into play. They then probably get special consideration when it comes to funding and access. All of Musk's efforts certainly fit this paradigm.
vid commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber
I completely support not being dependant on a foreign company (or any company at all, standards FTW) and I don't think there should even be a shadow of possibility that an organization like the ICC could be cut off from services due to a foreign directive, but while I have seen it repeated many times, I think the article's opening assertion is not true; https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...
It is very distressing how many organizations have become dependant on Microsoft and the US cloud for core services. I hope that an unintended consequence of the current US administration's approach is that this becomes less so.
32 GB GDDR6 VRAM through a 256-bit memory bus. Not the fastest, but could shake things up if it is available at this price.
vid commented on Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo chipsandcheese.com/p/eval... · Posted by u/zdw
Strix Halo can only allocate 96GB RAM to the GPU. So GPT-OSS 120B can be ran only at Q6 at best (but activations would need to be partially stored in the CPU mem then).
It can use only 96GB RAM on Windows, on Linux people have allocated up to 120GB. Here's one source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nmlluu/comment...
It's interesting how much Slashdot has receded, but I really like its predicate scoring system, as well as the ability for people to post anonymously.
vid commented on Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau
I was super interested in the Vision Pro when it was first released. Then I found out they went with an app model and the device could only display a single MacOS window. There went my dream of surrounding myself with a bunch of vim windows and terminals.
If they'd focused on maximizing the device's usefulness instead of its revenue stream, maybe things would have worked out better.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think emulating a physical screen in a virtual field of view is the wrong way to do this. Why introduce off-axis viewing and all the other unnecessary weirdnesses? What if the entire field of view were the screen, with head and eye movement as navigation? I guess make the windows transparent so it's less disorienting, and it would at least initially be overwhelming, but past that it could be quite transformative.