Bad Product Comparisons and EVsBad Product Comparisons and EVs
When companies design products a major concern seems to be what the reviewers will have to say about it. For any product of significant value the users are unable to[...]
Function KeysFunction Keys
For at least 12 years laptops have been defaulting to not having the traditional PC 101 key keyboard function key functionality and instead have had other functions like controlling the[...]
The Fuss About “AI”The Fuss About “AI”
There are many negative articles about “AI” (which is not about actual Artificial Intelligence also known as “AGI”). Which I think are mostly overblown and often ridiculous. Resource Usage Complaints[...]
Links June 2025Links June 2025
Jonathan McDowell wrote part 2 of his blog series about setting up a voice assistant on Debian, I look forward to reading further posts [1]. I’m working on some related[...]
The Intel Arc B580 and PCIe Slot SizeThe Intel Arc B580 and PCIe Slot Size
A few months ago I bought a Intel Arc B580 for the main purpose of getting 8K video going [1]. I had briefly got it working in a test PC[...]
Matching Intel CPUsMatching Intel CPUs
To run a SMP system with multiple CPUs you need to have CPUs that are “identical”, the question is what does “identical” mean. In this case I’m interested in Intel[...]
Trying DeepSeek R1Trying DeepSeek R1
I saw this document on running DeepSeek R1 [1] and decided to give it a go. I downloaded the llama.cpp source and compiled it and downloaded the 131G of data[...]
Links May 2025Links May 2025
Christopher Biggs gave an informative Evrything Open lecture about voice recognition [1]. We need this on Debian phones. Guido wrote an informative blog post about booting a custom Android kernel[...]
Service Setup DifficultiesService Setup Difficulties
Marco wrote a blog post opposing hyperscale systems which included “We want to use an hyperscaler cloud because our developers do not want to operate a scalable and redundant database[...]