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New comment by wirybeige in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

wirybeige — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:56:21 +0000

Why would these 3rd-party providers be taking losses? Together, Novita, etc... are not losing money on inference services, they are profiting. You can easily do napkin math with current & last gen Nvidia cards to calculate cost to host/serve these models. I would also doubt that any 1st-party providers like OpenAI and Anthropic lose money on per token billing. There is almost undoubtedly healthy margin being made on that.

New comment by wirybeige in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

wirybeige — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:15:08 +0000

Pricing for DeepSeek V4 flash is $0.14 in/$0.28 out across basically every provider or close to it. It seems most providers just follow the model creator and set their prices to match. V4 pro was set to be $1.74 in/$3.48 out when DeepSeek first announced it; all providers have set their prices to be about that price, & now DeepSeek has set their pricing to $0.435 in/ $0.87 out. I don't know if this is special pricing, or the promise they made for dropping the price when they get more Huawei cards online. It seems that providers like ParaSail, Together, and Novita just set the price when the model comes out and don't compete.

New comment by wirybeige in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

wirybeige — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:32:46 +0000

The vulkan backend for llama.cpp isn't that far behind rocm for pp and tp speeds

New comment by wirybeige in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

wirybeige — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:25:26 +0000

Sodium batteries don't yet have the scale that lifepo4 batteries have. I'd expect we will see them get cheaper.

New comment by wirybeige in "Linux is good now"

wirybeige — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:23:29 +0000

HDR playback in chrome on KDE works as expected from what I can tell. For GNOME 49.2 it does not, it doesn't get the luminance that it should at this time. 49.3 may fix this.

New comment by wirybeige in "OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year"

wirybeige — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:16:43 +0000

The post links to this: https://github.com/MCRcortex/nvidium

nvidium is using GL_NV_mesh_shader which is only available for nVIDIA cards. This mod is the only game/mod I know of that uses mesh shaders & is OpenGL. & so the new gl extension will let users of other vendors use the mod if it gets updated to use the new extension.

New comment by wirybeige in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

wirybeige — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:23:14 +0000

Sorry it doesn't work for you. I don't have that issue. Gnome looks proper in HDR mode for both HDR and SDR content for me.

New comment by wirybeige in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

wirybeige — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:19:48 +0000

GNOME has both color management and color representation protocols implemented. HDR works fine on it

New comment by wirybeige in "Ollama Web Search"

wirybeige — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:59:30 +0000

Their GUI is closed-source. If someone wants an easy to use & easy to setup app, may as well use LMStudio, which doesn't try to pretend to be OSS. Or use ramalama which is basically just containerizing LLMs and the relevant bits, pretty damn similar to ollama. Or just go back to "basics" and use llama.cpp or vllm.

New comment by wirybeige in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

wirybeige — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:51:53 +0000

Xe2 is superior to current AMD integrated already

New comment by wirybeige in "Jujutsu and Radicle"

wirybeige — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:02:05 +0000

I think this is the first blog on JJ that has made me want to use it. The flow seems like it could be quite a bit better than git

New comment by wirybeige in "Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power?"

wirybeige — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:17:31 +0000

It happens on GNOME at the very least, and I would expect every modern platform is the same way.

New comment by wirybeige in "Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit"

wirybeige — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:03:57 +0000

The proposal has been retracted, but I fully expect 32-bit to be removed in time.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-d...

New comment by wirybeige in "The Zed Debugger Is Here"

wirybeige — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:53:59 +0000

Setting this to none should remove that button. "features": { "edit_prediction_provider": "none" }

New comment by wirybeige in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

wirybeige — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:33:56 +0000

I'm well aware of this issue. I don't expect windows to look the same to each other. I like that the title bar can have other content in it other than just the app name and the close button.

For that reason alone I avoid Qt apps, as almost none draw their own title bar. Qt apps aren't even consistent among themselves in theming/style, for example the only apps that look in place on KDE are specifically made with KDE in mind.

I don't understand where the "consistency" obsession comes from, all these apps use different tool kits and will look different regardless.

New comment by wirybeige in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

wirybeige — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:45:24 +0000

I've found GNOME developers to be pleasant to work with & I enjoy the experience I have with the DE.

New comment by wirybeige in "Ollama's new engine for multimodal models"

wirybeige — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:51:50 +0000

They refuse to work with the community. There's also the open question of how they are going to monetize, given that they are a VC-backed company.

Why shouldn't I go with llama.cpp, lmstudio, or ramalama (containers/RH); I will at least know what I am getting with each one.

Ramalama actually contributes quite a bit back to llama.cpp/whipser.cpp (more projects probably), while delivering a solution that works better for me.

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/9650 https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/5059

New comment by wirybeige in "What is HDR, anyway?"

wirybeige — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:10:10 +0000

I always thought the "Your Desktop Trying To Sort Its Shit Out" part was a necessary evil, but other platforms don't suffer from this (at least from what I can tell); the state of HDR on Windows is very disappointing, even just adjusting the TF to gamma 2.2 would make it substantially better. Watching all your non hdr content's blacks become gray is terrible. I assume the washed out appearance comes from it giving up on doing SDR->HDR for the desktop.

My brother got an OLED monitor & was telling me how bad his experience was on Windows, & he recently switched to Linux & does not have the issues he was complaining about before. Ofc, downsides to hdr on Linux (no hdr on chromium, hdr on Firefox is unfinished) atm, but the foundation seems better set for it.

New comment by wirybeige in "What is HDR, anyway?"

wirybeige — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:49:10 +0000

I use HDR for general usage, Windows ruins non-HDR content when HDR is enabled due to their choice of sRGB tf. Luckily every Linux DE has chosen to use the gamma 2.2 tf, and looks fine for general usage.

I use a mini-led monitor, and its quite decent, except for starfields, & makes it very usable even in bright conditions, and HDR video still is better in bright conditions than the equivalent SDR video.

https://github.com/dylanraga/win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.2-icm

New comment by wirybeige in "Spade Hardware Description Language"

wirybeige — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:13:47 +0000

To add, even before SV we've had VHDL which is also strongly typed and has other nice features. But I do still like using SV more than VHDL :3. I'm not wholly convinced of these languages that have been popping up so far.