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  • RiskabletoLinuxDeepin 25.1 Arrives With Linux Kernel 6.18 and New AI Features
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    22 hours ago

    The AI features are actually pretty cool!

    Using a local AI model (running on your own GPU), you can:

    • Drag files on to the “AI bar” to bring them into the context of a prompt.
    • Tell it to perform actions like, “merge these two PDF files.”
    • Use it to search your filesystem, “find pictures of spiders.”
    • Ask it to find system settings or tell it to change them, “turn on dark mode.”

    It supports voice and probably visual (e.g. with a webcam) I think.

    Best of all: It doesn’t send any of that to some data center in the cloud! I mean, you can configure it to do that but you can just as easily use say, qwen3.5.

    Note: It’s not realistic to expect to be able to use local models if you have less than 16GB of VRAM (in your GPU). I mean, some 8-billion parameter model will work with say, 8GB but you’re not going to be satisfied with the results most of the time 🤷










  • Meh. For a control I need to see a comparison of the lies in the search results. I bet Gemini is doing a better job than the limitless bullshit that people are expected to click on.

    Let us not forget that Gemini is often pointing out basic facts like, “vaccines actually work” when people search for information about them. This angers a lot of complete idiots and results in anger-inducing clickbait articles… Like this one.

    The fact that a machine can get 90% of everything correct is fucking amazing. And the pace of improvement in AI in general is astounding. Try to keep that in perspective when reading stories like this.

    Anything over 50% is probably better than a random sampling of humans could do, based on our current state of education and “knowledge upkeep” (which is something most humans fail at, utterly and completely).


  • Ah, the good old days when your “dumb” refrigerator would kill children playing hide and seek because the latch wouldn’t open from the inside. When it was lined with asbestos because that’s literally the best insulation that exists excepting aerogel. When the mercury thermostat would fail—leaking mercury on to your food (and aerosolizing some which would be breathed in as soon as you opened it)—and it would freeze everything inside, complete with an interior wall of snow that could take days to defrost. It used old school freon, destroying the ozone layer. Or before then, fun highly toxic gasses like methyl chloride!

    Those were the days! When a breeze through the house on a day with wonderful weather could blow out the pilot light in your oven, slowly leaking gas into your house, exploding and destroying the entire home late at night while everyone is asleep.

    Then the wonders of electricity came along to produce ovens that were hooked up to 220V lines without a grounding wire, and wiring that would slowly fail over time, eventually making contact with the metal frame, electrocuting anyone who touched the device—or anyone that touched the person touching it.

    Ovens were built different “back in the day”! They didn’t have anti-tip brackets, resulting in loads of children sitting on the oven door, spilling boiling liquids down upon them.

    The best were those old washing machines, though! You could lift up the lid and look inside to see your laundry spinning at high speeds! Just don’t reach your hand in, or you could find out what the term “degloving” means.

    Ah yes, the good old days of appliances.