“Should I, ahh, write the check, sir?”

“No.”

I mean, does it work worse? UE4/Havok and Unigine all use CPU Physx. And every other engine I know of uses a custom particle physics implementation and seem far better at it than GPU Physx ever was.

On GPU I remember physx being super buggy since the GPU calculations were very low precision, and that was if you had an Nvidia card. It made AMD cards borderline unplayable in many games that were doing extensive particle physics for no other reason than to punish AMD in benchmarks.

Fuck no, ain’t nobody got time for that! My self hosted stack has 40+ services. I lock them to minor releases (where semvers are used), deploy blind with automation, and fire alerts when breakages occur, which is thankfully rarely.

What you’re suggesting works for small, very carefully curated environments. I grew past that years ago and doubly so when I had kids.

Meh. Physx emulation on CPU has been outstripping hardware implementations for a while as far as I know.

Nvidia dropping a portfolio item to open source appears to only happen once they’ve milked it to death first.

Donate when you can tho

Yeah but 1gb/s by me is $80/mo minimum…

1 Ethernet port does not a router make.

Ollama + OpenWebUI also can do this.

Just do Navidrome. It’s better anyway in a multitude of ways.

Even that sometimes shows them what they don’t want to see, so then they block or remove the offending content.

They insulate themselves from the difficult topics and nuance of the real world with Fox News and a carefully curated Facebook/X feed.

Instead of having their beliefs challenged regularly and being forced to critically think and introspect, they only reenforce their world-view and get fed a steady dose of fear, hatred and outrage until they’re incapable of human empathy with people different from them.

It’s awful. I’ve seen it with several family members and friends. Good, kind-hearted people transformed into the most hateful versions of themselves with only their most negative emotions driving their decisions.

It takes something deeply personal and challenging to force them to reevaluate. And for some that’s not even enough. They’ll double down instead of admitting they might be wrong, and go back to the comforts of their carefully crafted world instead.

Wake me up when they finally do transparent aluminum.

I’m using https://ollama.com/justinledwards/mistral-small-3.1-Q6_K

And it’s stunningly good. Absolutely running circles around Gemma 3 and Phi-4

I’d recommend Qwen 2.5 Coder. Just try to ask very direct questions with smaller context.

QWQ is a bit stronger at more advanced coding tasks but I had a ton of trouble finding a version that would fit in my 24G 7900xtx.

They are. They’re shipping several RISC-V SOCs

Well I was born and raised here, so I’m very biased, but I love it. Nature is everywhere, we have a ton of true wilderness, and people are generally very polite and kind. Lots of different cultures in the melting pot and fun cities/towns big and small.

Add onto that our politics (in the metro area especially) and it’s hard to beat.

Perhaps. But it won’t be a success story here. Minnesota has odd politics. We’re quite progressive for the US and extremely oddly progressive for the Midwest/Great Plains. Even our dyed in the wool conservatives are fairly libertarian (actual definition, focused on personal freedoms) in their beliefs.

Of course we still have our share of hateful and misinformed people, but this tack isn’t going to be very popular here.

All performative. MNGOP has been ineffectual and effectively out of power for 30+ years.

I use OLlama & Open-WebUI, OLlama on my gaming rig and Open-WebUI as a frontend on my server.

It’s been a really powerful combo!