Keith, It wasn't just you. It seems that it maxes out at some low number of users.. why.. worth investigating, but not at the expense of people being able to get into the meeting. Yeah, ARM for linux has been the "hotness" for a while. Pi definitely brought it to the forefront, but now more and more there are viable arm desktops. As for the AI, there are some FOSS solutions out there that are shockingly amazing. "ollama" is just one of them. No need to pay NVidia for AMD for the privilege. Tim. On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 1:58 PM Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us> wrote:
Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
We've got a meeting next week! Note, I won't be using our own Jitsi server but going to back to the old one since we've had so many issues.
I think part of the problem was with my micophone to webserver interface.
At this point I am thinking of this more as a test than a meeting, but I plan to do it.
If there's a topic that people would like us to tackle, I'd be up for it!
I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the latest hardware, but the radio said something about ARM processor that caught my attention. ARM means rasberry pi means Linux, no? Wikipedia has an enormous article (the Citations alone are 11 pages two column) but the last thing on the page seems to say that Wine is no longer for playing Windows games on Linux, but that MS needs it to prop up the ass end of their sorry operating system. Is the monopoly gone?
The radio also speaks of Nvidia. They sell those Invidious graphics cards. The ones that need special secret drivers that only work if you have the right *.dll? It seems that everyone now needs them to do Artifical Intelligence (all rise). Have they changed their attitude, or is it like: "Here's your AI. Pay the monthly bill to retain your licence to use it. Any attempt to try to find out what it does or how it works will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law of Connecticut."?
-- Keith
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".