A few days ago I installed CachyOS, and I'm in the middle of transferring stuff from Windows. I, who used them all - MS-DOS, 3.11, 95, 98, you name it. I'm tired, boss.
But you're an individual. For businesses it's probably very painful, the OS is buggy, slow, and killing productivity, but the cost to switch is too distruptive for them to do.
I wonder if a Linux advocacy group could offer a deal of "rather than paying MS the next 12 months to remain hostage to them in 12 months' time, pay us whatever you're paying MS for 6 months, and we'll help you transition from MS in a 6-month timeline" (or whatever number is realistic after a consultation). Of course this means paying double for those 6 months (once to MS, and once to the group), but after that the company will be running on free software!
One of the issue is that companies take "free software" as in free beer, not as In freedom, so they pay tens of thousands of dollars to closes source software companies and then won't donate a cent to open source software that they daily.
The companies which have the will and the budget to host their own LLMs typically require a ton of other, much smaller, models as well.
They have internal security requirements, guardrails, audit, critical workflows start depending on your onprem setup, downtime is now something that’s not even allowed.
There’s going to be a zoo of tooling, lots of bespoke work with internal clients who have no clue about docker, but now want their vibe-coded app to access a model they downloaded yesterday, and this model better be served and monitored 24/7 because now C-levels use it.
No one is going to budget several millions to then look at an email admin who hears ‘cuda’ for the first time in their life and ask them to just support the entire thing somehow.
And god forbid it’s an AMD setup.
This obviously isn’t relevant for a 10-person startup and their second-hand xeon with a single H100.
From my experience only the companies which are REALLY interested in privacy and data security bother with hosting their own models
That depends on the workload. When buying for on-prem inference, MI355x is quite capable.
It still requires a ton more ops time, not every dc handles it cooling-wise, and you have to be careful with the model selection, but when it fits, it fits well
Lots of games’ updates break popular mods, introduce launchers and/or break linux compatibility and/or online mode, remove music with expired licenses, censor something and increase system requirements.
Sadly we’re way past the point where games became like all the other software in that regard
This would be less of a problem if patches are something you still installed deliberately - instead we have to fight Steam to let us play the games we already have a working install of.
Well Sony is actively working on that problem- the plebs in these internet-starved countries won’t be playing anyway, as with no optical drive in the future ps6 users are going to be tied to PSN which isn’t available on half the planet.
Jokes aside I do agree that streaming doesn’t work reliably for all game genres and client geographies, mostly due to latency
It is completely fair to expect at least B1 from potential citizens and permanent residents.
What the article is covering are the skilled workers, and for them B1 isn't nearly enough to function in any profesional capacity. I'd put B2 as a bare minimum for that. So if it's impossible for someone to find employment in the language they already know (for skilled workers it's usually English), they are understandably not eager to stay.
For those who are quick to judge, try mastering a foreign language (and German is noticeably more difficult than English, French or Spanish) in another country where you don't have any support system yet, and with likely some suboptimal job (as you need this foreign language to find a decent one).
Getting to B2 takes about 750 class hours (not including homework) for an average English speaker. That's an enormous investment (of both time and money). One will have to sacrifice entertainment, socializing, hobbies, sleep, and work-related educational opportunities for several years in a row, depending on abilities (and the language).
And just a reminder- most people tend to overestimate how well they know a foreign language. Telling you know [insert your flavor of Chinese] and actually passing an exam are two different things.
Again, I am not saying it is unfair for country officials to expect whatever language level they want. It is their country and their rules. As far as I understand nobody's talking about giving away passports.
It's just when it's relatively more difficult for skilled immigrants to find employment and interact with said officials without high level (at least B2) German, some of these immigrants will chose in favor of the countries- with easier/more widely used languages and/or more jobs in English or just lower taxes and higher pay.
If a country's government wants to attract these kinds of immigrants, some of these variables will have to change
>>if all I need is shelter for a day, would I necessarily care whether it lasts more than a week
An interesting choice of a metaphor here. If I needed a shelter for a day, I would have bought (or rented) a nice tent. Or booked a room in a proper hotel
Because there is no guarantee that the donors now will receive the same benefits when they are older. It's almost the opposite, given demographic trends. For example, 20 to 30 years ago, getting consultation by a doctor was easier, but now you often have to get consultation from a physician assistant, if you're lucky, or more likely a nurse practitioner, who are far less qualified than doctors.
Also, ACA started in 2010, so all the people receiving the most healthcare now (age 50 to 65) had a good chunk of working years where they never paid into the system, but they received a lot of benefits. Also, there is no mandate to pay the premiums in the US, so many people don't pay into it at all, until they need the healthcare.
Microsoft is not wrong
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