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It's not degraded....this is misinformation lol. Please think for yourself and verify.

People believe the doomers a little too much. We should do everything we can to protect the coral reefs but I'm exhausted by the cynicism that's rampant. Even here in the HN threads people are convinced the GBR has collapsed and it is devastation. Couldn't be further from the truth. By the way...the GBR is collapsing and reforming all the time throughout the last ~30K years. It wasn't just some paradise that started to decline when humans showed up

Here we have the classic if you want something to happen in the corporate world, make it go viral on the internet. Except, humans will be humans and it played out in open source.

In this case, frenck most certainly backtracked because they realized they were on the front page of HN and did not want the heat.

So you're purposefully ignoring comics, news, magazines to make your point? Just because you don't read them doesn't make it a gimmick.

> that you need to drive the backlight at 90-100% during the day

Well, okay that's objectively false and anybody that has used one or owns one can tell you this.

That doesn't mean it's a gimmick. Again, I implore you to actually look up what "gimmick" means. Just because there's a tradeoff doesn't mean that it's a gimmick. In fact, the very issue that you're talking about is something that is improving from Kaleido 3 to Kaleido 4. So even people that use this argument have something to take note of in this release.

When we went from black & white photography to color photography we also introduced a lot of tradeoffs. Would you have considered color photography a gimmick ?

They don't have a great trackrecord here with QA or any of that for all the waiting. The first colorsoft noticeably has an issue with yellow banding on the bottom edge. It's a well documented issue and if waiting was supposed to help with issues like that, it clearly did not.

Perhaps revisiting what "gimmick" means would help you. Plenty of people use their e-ink readers to look at magazines, comics, news. Plenty of people have a highlighting system. Arguing that color is a "gimmick" is silly considering there are practical applications of color, as we can see around us in the real world. Some of you are seriously living in the weirdest of bubbles.

Biology spent a ton of time adapting and evolving for the ability to see color but sure, it's a gimmick. I guess you should consider syntax highlighting a gimmick in code editors as well? Charts/graphs in textbooks use color as a gimmick, any book that include illustrations/images in color are gimmicks

Amazon just refreshed their colorsoft kindles with Kaleido 3 so this is an interesting development. I wonder if Amazon had a heads up, I would have buyer's remorse right now if I bought a new colorsoft kindle recently knowing that there's a better version of the screen just around the corner.

Color is a gimmick for e-ink now? I wonder if people thought the same thing when they brought color to television.

you weren’t competitive or pushing the limits of anything if llms arrived and suddenly you weren’t pushing the limits with it

You can keep saying it’s hideous to feel morally superior for yourself but it’s not working here. Rhetorical analogies? There is no rhetorical analogy here it’s a fair analogy. Plenty of people take up woodworking and it is definitely one of the most impractical hobbies out there. Most people do not think they are going to derive net positive value out of woodworking.

Respecting the subject on its own terms?

What happened to you, did you just come back from reeducation camp or something?

It's pretty clear to me that Apple doesn't even want you to upgrade your old Apple TV. None of the new Siri features are even gated by the new Apple TV. Apple likely has software updates in mind after the release but for now, it seems that Apple is intentionally signaling to current Apple TV owners that there's no need to upgrade yet. I guess that's....fine? It's just surprising to me that it seems like for the price, there's no reason for a new customer to buy it either?

People like me were waiting on the sidelines for years to upgrade but hey, I'll keep my money if you can't dream up anything interesting Apple. I can always spend it somewhere else.

Needing to force Apple TV into 1080p is something wrong with your tv and not apple tv.

Match Dynamic Range and Match Frame Rate covers it and it had nothing to do with resolution in the first place, so that must be something specific to your TV

Try rivulet. It's open source and on the app store. Right now, it has better support for dolby vision profiles than the latest plex player on apple tv.

It definitely does not handle video much better. It doesn't even handle the dolby vision profiles correctly anymore on the apple tv. It's straight up a regression.

While I will not be upgrading to the new Apple TV and agree there's nothing here - I'm sorry, but your minipc is 100% a shitty experience compared to an apple TV and I would bet the farm on it.

do you have any idea how many papers are retracted?

I just sold 4x8GB of DDR4 that I wasn't using for $200 on Ebay so this article is quite timely

> It's a well orchestrated distraction maneuver to have the lower classes find somebody to blame that is not the brutal increase in accomodation prices, that leads, de facto, to wage-slavery for big chunks of the population.

/rolleyes

Listen, I've been enough time on this Earth to know what is behind migrant acceptance, and it's not a particularly dark instinct. It's a well orchestrated distraction maneuver to have the lower classes accept the brutal increase in indentured servitude that leads, de facto, to wage-slavery for big chunks of the population.

See how much companies like Uber benefit from it for example

lol, see how easy it is to confidently push a narrative as truth?

> The supposed productivity gains are a lie

This reads like a comment from 2025. LLMs are solving novel math problems and they successfully emulated a PS5, this week lol. You really need to update your priors. It's amazing how many people refuse to do this and make a fool of themselves in public

There's no way to spin this that doesn't make it sound like assholes being gatekeepers.

these doomers are thrashing way too hard right now. if anybody is dangerous it's obviously them.

No, if you lived long enough to remember the 90s and 2000s then you would have remembered that the European Union experiment was one that was supposed to be formidable and address the very thing that you are saying is a problem. Americans literally thought we were going to have to compete with Europeans in enterprise and innovation. Instead, the threat of European Union doing anything interesting was undeserved. China clearly deserves the recognition of being a the competitor we desperately need to keep going and make progress towards a more advanced species

If you enjoy being an NPC it's absolutely better. For everybody else...

> bc agents will naturally be bad at it due to a lack of examples.

Can we please as a community stop parroting these false premises as a basis of every argument against doing anything new? It's plainly obvious to anybody that uses LLMs on a regular basis that it's not true.

You're straight up wrong and it's hilarious. Seriously, go touch grass. I feel bad for the people that have to interact with you in real life because you must be a miserable person.

You are comparing dense models to MoE. You can't just take a qhen3.8:27b, a dense model, and extrapolate that math to make your arguments for the MoE model being discussed in the review.

All this takes is a simple bit of research, it's not like this author is the only person that's ever used qwen3.8-flash-next or another MoE on a mac ultra. https://tbreak.com/mac-studio-m5-max-review-local-ai/

> people like you in the industry are the reason I can work 8 hours a week and still get get paid a lot while being reviewed highly.

LOL. No offense but you sound like a carriage return. I'm pretty sure you sit at your computer hitting enter on a mechanical keyboard next to your fabulous mini pc living in 2025. You couldn't even imagine another use case besides being a carriage return for a local llm.

Once the previous goalpost gets demolished on HN, there's always someone new to put a new one. We aren't quite there yet but eventually the goalpost moves to something that is just impossible to even measure. That'll be the end game surely

> allow me to educate you

No thanks, you're not in a position to do that clearly.

> Since you clearly don't use local llms

I do, probably a lot longer than you have actually.

> anything under 100 tok/sec is USELESS

Objectively wrong. You sound like you're really behind and you're so myopic that you think coding is the only use case for local LLMs. I'm a professional software dev and that's the least interesting use case of local LLMs.

> Looking at the article, which you clearly didn't read,the m5 ultra runs Qwen3.8, which fits on one GPU conveniently, at ~20 tok/sec.

You clearly didn't read the article or have reading comprehension issues. The model is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4 and 5-bit quant, neither of which "conveniently fits on one GPU". Sorry that your hardware doesn't live up to your own delusions and can't even run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 4/5 bit quant. You are taking the Quen3.8-27B numbers, something that the article isn't really that concerned with, and trying to make it fit into your narrative.

> So I ask you again, which one are you?

Well I'm someone that suggests that you should touch some grass and reevaluate your personal issues. You seem angry. Perhaps it's best to figure your own issues before trying to figure out why people are excited about Apple hardware for local llms. I am sure the people that need to interact with you in society would be very grateful if you took the time to do this.

> So given that, which one of these is true about you?

Well, if those are the only two options you can come up with it's pretty clear that this isn't about me or what I am, you have a false model of reality.

> Running very large models on Mac is unusable at 10 tok/sec.

There are plenty of examples of models running at well over 10 tok/sec that aren't viable on the 3090. In fact such examples are found in the review in the OP. Did you not read the article?

I think you're projecting pretty hard with the two options you've listed. Go touch some grass, you seem overly frustrated that reality doesn't meet your expectations.

Tok/sec is 0 on a 3090 for most of the models that the mac can run