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edwinjoneson Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

This is why I like modern Renaults/Dacias. They all come with a single button to turn all of this stuff off, or to a preset of your choosing. No need to fiddle with a screen, nothing you cannot disable. Bliss.

edwinjoneson Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

Agreed, it really looks like quite a small prompt wrapper: https://github.com/ngafar/llama-scan/blob/main/llama_scan/co...

The url to connect to ollama seems to just be hard coded so I don't see why you couldn't point this at a different machine on your network rather than having Ollama running locally on every machine you need this for like the readme implies.

edwinjoneson Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

I would say vulkan derives from mantle, mantle development stopped some time ago.

edwinjoneson Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

I agree. AMD should just go all in on vulkan I think, The ROCm compatibility list is terrible compared to...every modern device and probably some ancient gpus that can be made to work with vulkan as well.

Considering they created mantle, you would think it would be the obvious move too.

edwinjoneson Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

Sadly, the reason they give is subjectively terrible:

https://x.com/ollama/status/1952783981000446029

No experimental flag option, no "you can use the fork that works fine but we don't have capacity to support this" just a hard "no, we think it's unreliable". I guess they just want you to drop them and use llama.cpp.

edwinjoneson Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

Not quite what you're after but if you want a fanless option that runs full linux and doesn't use much battery, the new argon 40 CM5 laptop that's being built looks like it could be viable as long as you'd be happy with that much of a drop in performance and a few pi based niggles (No USB C video, only one pcie lane for the SSD, etc.)

https://liliputing.com/argon40-is-making-a-raspberry-pi-cm5-...

edwinjoneson In memoriam

Hexus shut down years ago did it not?

edwinjoneson Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

I agree. I have been using it as a drop in docker replacement alongside podman compose via aliases for years now and I often just forget I am not using docker. The only time it bit me recently is when some scripts were looking for containers with docker specific labels and I had to figure out why they failed only for me.

edwinjoneson Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

True, but the fact a pi can even compete on paper in some areas with a modern intel chip is pretty impressive. 3x isn't the power difference for all workloads but probably is for common ones like transcode etc.

I think we often forget just how far the pi has come from the armhf days.

edwinjoneson Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

3x? Geekbench scores seem similar for the pi 5 and this machine.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/7095621