Thinking the exact same, would have bought Mac hardware long ago if Linux was supported (or even running!) on the latest gen. It's all down to the need for local llm capability!

Honestly, let me buy one, it's many times faster than the minipc I run local ai on so if the price is right I'm in.

This is the sort of classic MacOS situation that has mandated the use of Hammerspoon scripts and the like for more than a decade by now (this is not a sectarian point btw, Windows requires winutil just the same according to my optics)

Come on Facebook/Zuckerberg, set them up with a structured fund that is invested in s&p500 or something equivalent/better and allows them to pay a handful of devs and a person to admin them (all surplus can be earmarked to go to charity to avoid the sinkhole of bureaucracy from a larger org). Would set the PHP Foundation up for life and the whole world would be better off as a result, smallish directed investment with huge payout from a value perspective.

They already did one better and upgraded the whole language in the form of Hack.

In your heart you know that's not a real contribution.

Well, at that point fine them properly and use the proceeds to establish new wildlife sanctuary.

Unless of course the judicial system has been corrupted but that's surely a bit of a stretch no?

It would be good to use funds that way but it's not gonna get the protected species back. We need some teeth to actually stop these things from happening

This is why local LLMs is THE most interesting thing at this moment in time; the distribution of the tech is fundamental to it's long term viability. But now that this is happening in very solid fashion I would wager that LLMs are technically akin to most things a modern humans use during their daily life, utterly beyond their capability to understand, yet totally practically useful - this trend has been going on for hundreds of years at this point.

A lot of it could probably be brought back to consumption patterns or present day issues with war and outsourcing.. but.. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ is worth a (re-)read since I gather this is more of a more macro-structural outcome as opposed to a sudden thing.

It's the shift from the economy serving everyone to the economy serving rich people.

Only 20 years late or so...? Maybe in 2080 we can get concurrent downloads?

As a slight aside to this point...

Actually think this one-language-focus is the way forward, instead of training AIs for all languages under the sun it would be incredible to have models solving all issues via one very well understood/and-tooled-for language. I'm aware that the model training cross-benefits from different languages so obviously provisions would have to be made for the benefit of this to show.

Yep, it's true, but the reality of what it would take to actually fork and commence with healthy use of AI alongside with the elusive soft/hard stance needed to lead technically and socially is probably a bigger challenge than anyone is willing to take on! Soo.. slow and (rather?) well it goes for Zig.