The takeaway from these comments are that you can really run local models if you use m-series devices from apple.

But, can you do that if you install Linux on that hardware?

I hate to admit apple hardware is incredible. But, I can't say the same about macos anymore.

Can I run Linux and reap the benefits of m-series chips with local inference?

Or, are there any alternatives where I can use llms on Linux on a laptop?

Well, Candace Owens and Valhalla VFT are talking about exactly those things and the MSM is saying their concerns are baseless. I can't believe I actually watched Candace Owens discuss some of this stuff, I shudder to write that.

Owens is unhinged. She's also claiming the French government are trying to have her killed because she's claiming their first lady is secretly transgender. It's not just the "MSM" who are pointing out she has no credibility, it's also people like Ben Shapiro from her same corner of the media.

Just checking, are you sure this is the story: "hinged on a confession by the killer to his dad." It seems that story is a-changing and that's an important note. My point might be that what is put out as the story often comes with an agenda.

This is a reference I think to the Charlie Kirk murder.

I wish I could do the reverse. Could I and a million other people pay $20 now to a few law firms that could fight this without need for compensation and do everything to expose this to everyone in America?

Isn't that what organizations like the ACLU are for? Except ACLU fights for civil rights whereas your hypothetical organization fights for consumer rights. The reason why it doesn't exist is that it suffers heavily from the free rider problem. Any individual's donation of $20 or whatever is unlikely to get them $20 worth of returns, because the lawsuit is either funded or not. Moreover you'd benefit regardless of whether you donated or not, so there's no incentive to donate.

But isn’t that true of the ACLU as well?

A similar idea that's immediately actionable is subscribing to independent media doing investigative journalism

hmmm that is very interesting wonder if its possible even

When I read the negative take on "it's always somebody else selecting the music for you" I really recoiled. My favorite way to listen to music today is BECAUSE there is someone choosing it for me. I love the human stories behind the music, and it is totally missing with algorithmic stuff. I love Gilles Peterson, and Derek Smith on KMHD, for example, exactly because they are terrific and interesting people and they bring that humanity with their choice of tracks. When they interview people it is so much more interesting as a companion to the music.

My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song. It was so interesting to find house music and be digging through the tastes of someone in London. And, then chatting with them, and discovering the live scenes, the people behind the music, etc. I loved that and nothing has ever replaced it.

Having said all this, I am interested in playing with "scrobbling." Anyone have any advice on how to get started? Do you need a music library? Is there a way to import your playlists from YouTube music? I'm not a spotify person.

> My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song.

Soulseek lets you do this and is still going

Soulseek is still going?

I discovered so many artists, international variations of albums, live sessions and bootlegs from that app, it changed my relationship with music.

I have to go back and check it out.

There's even a FOSS client now https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus

Nicotine+ has existed for at least 15 years. I'm pretty sure it was open source all this time.

while Soulseek has existed for 24 years, I mention it in case GP's use didn't overlap.

Soulseek is definitely still going, and absolutely still captures that feeling GP is talking about :)

Beyond that, and practically speaking, I find it the easiest way to find large, nicely organized discographies. And some not so nicely organized.

> When I read the negative take on "it's always somebody else selecting the music for you" I really recoiled.

Someone clearly didn't listen to John Peel and Andy Kershaw in their youth.

(also, IN MY DAY, it was generally somebody else selecting the music for you - radio DJs/programmers, TV music shows, availability of things in shops, being able to actually get to the damn shops, etc. None of this choose your own adventure streaming or digital music malarkey.)

If you use streaming you can link it to lastfm or Listenbrainz(open source alternative). It will automagically scrobble your listening over.

Otherwise you need to find a music player that supports it or has a plugin to add the functionality. I use tauron for scrobbling my local listening.

i used to use last.fm with winamp and the like. that needed scrobbling plugins. nowadays, i use it with spotify, and it's pretty simple: (1) make an account on last.fm. (2) go into spotify settings → social → connected apps, and add it in.

I for one am grateful someone is finally standing up to these lunatic radical typographers and their diversity, equity and italics tyranny.

Doh, of course, that would make sense that it wouldn't need it's own Internet, just fed from your phone.

May I ask what model of HUD you are using? I did a quick search on AliExpress and there are a bunch.

Sorry, I don’t remember. They’re all the same on Ali insofar as they’re a cheap iPad clone with physical hookups. I paid around $170 because it’s a beater car. If I cared, I’d buy online in the US for $400

Dollar General: "people these days just don't want to work (meaning, my clients don't want to do that work or pay lazy genZers...)!"

Read the article.

I went to a concert last night and wore a T-shirt I made that said "Fuck Warner Bros." The band was j*Davey. Warner Bros signed them over fifteen years ago and then shoved them into a box. The show last night, fortunately for me, was only about 300 people, but it should have been 10,000. Prince was a fan. They birthed an entire category of LA artists like Thursday Thundercat, Syd, Flying Lotus (those artists say that in their Instagram). They loved my T-shirt when we met after the show.

I got really emotional when I saw them again for the first time in twenty years. They are just amazing, and it is so shocking they couldn't make it work in the industry.

But Spotify seems even worse. It feels like the parasites are even worse now, and they turn around and invest in military startups.

What's the alternative? This band sold out of merch last night, is that enough for them to survive, or dare I dream, thrive in the world of today?

If you are in LA, go see them next week on the 12th. They are releasing a new album and if the world makes sense their next show will be 10,000 people.

Warner Bros video production business and Warner Music Group have been separate businesses since 2004.