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The times we live in…

Got my mail:

You’re officially in the reservation queue for Steam Machine 512GB with Controller

When your Steam Machine 512GB with Controller becomes available, we will send you a separate email with the option to purchase. You’ll then have 3 days to complete the purchase before we cancel your reservation and move on to the next person in the queue.

This is the only email you will receive about the results of the randomization. If you ended up with a reservation queue spot for more than one model, you were allocated a reservation for the highest end model, and were removed from all the others.

How old are your kids? Prusa Core One kits are very fun and educational to build and you save some money by getting the kit over the pre-built.

They are also built in the EU, very reliable and servicable. More expensive than the Chinese counterparts but they make up for it with good support, parts availability and open source software. Their hardware is mostly open but not entirely anymore sadly.

The Index did not have OLED screens, they used regular LCDs.

According to their now deleted Reddit account, it will use a custom Proton build on Intel and Zen 4 CPUs. For every other CPU you will need a kernel module.

Ask again in a different support ticket.

Friend of mine just got told that it’s going to arrive soon and then asked again after he saw everyone got a free game and now he also got the offer.

As a side note, Qwen3.6-27B is much more capable than Qwen3.6-35B, even though it is much slower.

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF

For coding tasks where you don’t mind waiting, you should be able to barely squeeze in the 8-bit quantized version with 32 GB RAM + 8 GB VRAM and have a pretty competent local model. 4-bit quants work but they have issues with complex tool calls.

If you use the MTP branch of llama.cpp (and a suitable model) you can even double or triple your token generation speed: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/22673

For easier tasks, disable reasoning for instant responses.

I share photos and videos through my Matrix/Signal bridge all the time just fine.

Calls don’t work but that’s about it.

Fedora 43 with the Rawhide kernel.

gpt-oss is pretty much unusable without custom system prompt.

Sycophancy turned to 11, bullet points everywhere and you get a summary for the summary of the summary.

Of course, self hosted with llama-swap and llama.cpp. :)

I have a Strix Halo machine with 128GB VRAM so I’m definitely going to give this a try with gpt-oss-120b this weekend.

We need a fourth one for “User error”.

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?