The phrasing could have been chosen better but the meaning still stands. Amongst all of the valid and accessible options for weight loss, society will without a doubt choose the weight loss pill/shot bar none. All for the simple reason of minimizing friction above all else.

Well you could explain why that would be mentioned.

Having looked at the sentiment around DeepSeek's models around this thread as well as my own experiences with it I'm going to need a little more to back up that assertion about OpenAI and Anthropic not being at least a little bit worried about DeepSeek...

I’ve been listening to this rhetoric about the open models eating O/A’s lunch for like 18 months, meanwhile their revenue is up what, like 50x?

May this kind of worry find me…

The reason is quite simple, American corporations know they cannot depend on models developed in China; not because they're bad or lower quality models, but because they know their government can ban these models any time they want. It's an implicit assumption that every company knows to be true.

It's quite different here in EU. I just gave a presentation in an AI conference in Paris about moving from Anthropic to open-weight models, how it looks like and what kind of savings you'll be looking at. The room was packed, and after discussing with a bunch of VPs, staff engineers, and CTOs in the conference, every single one of them are either looking at or using DeepSeek now.

It's quite hard to have the valuation of Anthropic if they are limited to US.

This doesn’t make any sense either, the use of these models is on the rise throughout corporate America, it’s just that they’re augmenting the frontier models, not replacing them.

You said it correctly: augmenting, not as a main solution, because of what I said above.

Sure, just not nearly enough for sustainability I think. I'd reserve that call for the moment we can stop bathing in free VC money by using subscriptions.

Also, as far as my own use goes, I found that the capabilities/price ratio of DeepSeek's offering is very hard to beat. It's really good enough so the thing that matters to me (besides table stakes like uptime, latency, etc.) is price at this point.

I have 4 of the old ones in service and they're great. Whenever I need to remotely reboot a server those come in handy just great, no more fear of what I'm going to do if the server doesn't come back online.

It also solved the issue I had with entering a password on FDE (full disk encryption) systems. Previously I had to rely on a janky solution with booting into BusyBox so that the system can be accessed remotely and using that to enter the password. Now it's just plain FDE set up during Debian install - I reboot, use JetKVM to enter the password and that's it.

One note though - I don't use their online cloud service access thingy and connect to those using my Wireguard deployment. The hardware is nice, open source is nice, but I wouldn't trust that level of access to any cloud solution by any vendor.

>It also solved the issue I had with entering a password on FDE (full disk encryption) systems

I've fixed that with secure boot (my own keys, not Microsoft's) and TPM2. From that host I can run a program named Tang, which operates in conjunction with another program named Clevis.

On hosts without secure boot such as RPis and other ARM SBCs, Clevis will contact Tang at boot time and decrypt the disk.

Incidentally my x86 with secure boot has intel vPro so the KVM is not needed. The remaining sisters have a piece of lost technology used for decades to solve the KVM problem: serial (UART specifically) connections.

Some seasoned sysadmins might have memories of dialing their Sun servers serial ports for remote administration.

To me, it is a feature to have a password required at boot to unlock the drive. Relying on TPM for keymatter is convenient but comes with caveats I don't like. I don't personally trust that the boot chain and OS on a modern system are secure enough for this model to be similarly secure to using a passphrase properly. And if I care enough to try to secure something in this way, I definitely care enough to pick something that I believe would be at least truly secure at rest with a decent degree of certainty.

TPM based unlock does at least still fulfill the goal of ensuring data stored to disk is encrypted so that it can't easily be recovered from a discarded drive.

I am using Tang and Clevis without a TPM on an Orange Pi 5. The key is stored on my Tang server. No TPM required.

It is either on my LAN with that server available, or you will need to enter a key.

It am only trying to prevent casual snooping if it goes missing from my garage though. Anybody more sophisticated can have my garage YouTube browsing history.

This. I'm not fighting against a state level actor. My concern is some crackhead burglar stealing my stuff and then my personal data ending up in the hands of whoever buys the stolen goods.

Exactly. Disk encryption simplifies a stolen device to a VISA problem.

As in, no problem, I will just buy another one. At these RAM and storage prices, maybe not.

I like jetkvm a lot but the splitter with the dual USB-c’s is really, really finicky and will say it’s not connected for seemingly no reason. They don’t even send you all the cables you need (which I’m sorry, but jetkvm team if you’re reading this, that’s ridiculous) so you’re just kind of rotating through your pile until you find one that it arbitrarily accepts. Power in particular just refuses to work with many cables for some odd reason. Kind of annoying, I would rather just pay the extra cost and have all the exact cables I need out the box.

At least the new ones dropped the splitter and put 2 separate ports it seems.

Yeah its a really poor decision - the things chonky, put two USB-C on there.

Oh man, I loved the 65t! I remember Jabra making great true wireless headphones. They were small, sounded ok, had actual buttons but operating them didn't push the earbud against the brain.

Miss that a lot. Nowadays it's all touch and I hate it so much because for some reason I have a problem spatially locating them and always end up touching it the wrong way (and yes, I know... ;)

i still use their conference speaker for calling and music and is the primary sound for my computer. i like it and it has worked really well for the last 5 years.

Which ones? I'd be happy to know the brands.

FWIW, I've never seen that come up on the five or six TCLs that I've owned over the last decade. I have AppleTVs connected to all of them and never connect them to the internet. So far, so good.

Samsung TVs certainly do. A massive PITA.

Good to know. I don't buy Samsung anymore anyway. I have two CRG9s and they're already showing same problems after a couple of years. Had a midrange phone from them some years ago - started dying 6mo in (battery, restarts, slowness).

Be specific. Which models and after what time.

Mine has been running for two years now without insisting on updates.

I don't recall off the top of my head. It was covered in one of Louis Rossmann's rants so you might find information on the consumer rights wiki he talks about.

I mean, if you were to use that name for an IKEA product, you can do worse than wine glasses :P

A bed would be a little too on the nose I think.