Okay so a few counterpoints. Firstly, it would only be more optimised assuming the user actually knows what they’re doing when it comes to those optimisations you discussed. Considering the Framework 12 is designed to be a replacement for the Chromebook in education, I’d say the average userbase would be better with an alternative.

Secondly, benchmarks are designed to be a reflection of general usage. Gentoo that’s optimised for productivity, or for gaming, or for creative work just isn’t indicative of every users set up. It also can’t be used comparatively in a fair manner with other devices if it’s specialised in a way that is not automatic on the part of the OS. The journalist would need to set it up in a general manner, and then it loses a lot of that optimisation that you speak of. That’s just how impartiality works.

What makes you say that Gentoo is the most optimised?

Edit: also, this is me ignoring for the sake of the discussion that the training is where all the energy use comes from.

AFAIK that’s no longer true now that uptake (read: it being jammed into everything) is much higher now.

It’s not about efficiency, your card, even though it’s very high end for consumers, still can’t run more than a medium-sized open source model with its paltry 24GB of RAM. An NVIDIA DGX B200 has 1.44TB of RAM for the GPUs, and can use up to 14.3kW of power. That’s what proprietary models like GPT-4o are running on.

So even though that hardware is likely much more efficient than yours per flop/s, it’s running a much larger, much more intensive model on it.

Really disappointed to see the image description used to provide content, then the description itself provided in the post. That’s not cute or funny, it’s making it less accessible for vision impaired users.

Nice try movie executive!

Why does that scare you? Your laptop would be designed to handle the thermal load of the CPU running at full tilt. As well, modern CPUs “boost” up to their full power level, so if they start to overheat they can “throttle” back down to prevent any issues. Worst case, they will shutdown before damage occurs.

Otherwise, yeah, running at 100% all day, every day can shorten a CPU’s lifespan. But doing it for a couple hours here and there is gonna be fine. You get similar usage if you’re rendering a 3D scene with blender, for example.

It’s still marked as experimental, not deprecated, just will likely stay that way. However, it does work with both protocols individually, and the first-use wizard asks you which dedicated firmware you would like to install:

https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/26124710072861-Enabling-Thread-support

2.4GHz*

Zigby particularly stood out as annoying to me as it includes its own 2.4ghz physical layer stack which uses the same range as WiFI, which is already overcrowded as hell and relies on some CSMA/CA magic to make even the most apartment crowded area of APs function decently.

I mean, there isn’t really any other choice for unlicensed consumer use? 5GHz is dedicated to WiFi. The sub-GHz bands would be great, as there isn’t a need for much bandwidth, but it’s a huge mishmash of frequencies that would require many different SKUs per device:

Star Trek: Voyager Already Delivered 12 Star Trek Movies

“Pro-life” chucklefucks out here trying to cause the next thalidomide ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ouch 😵‍💫

It’s not like the developer gives a damn about accessibility, I wouldn’t be surprised if regressions happen and he just doesn’t fix them. If he cared about disabled people, he wouldn’t be anti-vax.

Can we not post about this project by a literal piece of shit?

What crawled up your butt and died? Yeesh.

That first message wasn’t in reply to you though, and wasn’t saying you couldn’t in Steam:

I’ve used both and found ProtonPlus to be better for my needs. It has way more proton and wine versions available. They also added the feature for steam games to select their proton version from the client as well.

I was merely letting them know that ProtonUp-Qt can also do that now, as well as ProtonPlus?

I mean, you’re the one that said something super obvious to start with?

Yes, and? I only switch to GE-Proton on games that need it, so I leave that setting on vanilla Proton (ie unset).

Yea, for sure you can, but you have to go into each games settings one-by-one. In ProtonUp-Qt (seriously, terrible name lol) it’s a list with a dropdown box next to each, the steam deck compatibility rating, and the ProtonDB rating that you can click to go straight to the page for it.