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I came here to say the opposite. Running on MacOS 15.7 the original Client uses ~200mb and Fastpotify uses ~500mb playing the same song while being substantially slower when navigating music.

EDIT: I forgot about the Spotify Helper processes - taken into account the original spotify needs ~1GB. However it's still a lot faster than Fastpotify


For sure. I'm from Germany (but with an AC) as well and am always amazed when people tell me that AC makes you sick. Even young people sometimes replicate this "Oh you gotta be careful not to get sick" and would rather be in 30+°C indoors. How come Germans get sick while the rest of the world seems to be doing fine and is even productive during summer (it feels like Germany grinds to a halt during heatwaves).


AC dries the air out and your respiratory system basically depends on moisture to catch air particles and pathogens in your respiratory tract.

Nothing unique about Germans in this case, sorry. ;)


You could run a humidifier as well to offset that if you're really affected by it, but most people seem to be fine.


Exactly. It is like never turning the heater on once the temperature drops to -10°C (then catching a cold and getting sick).

So once it is too hot, just turn the AC on and you won't get sick or risk a heat stroke either.

We'll come back to this in several months for a winter freeze to see if Europe has basic heating to keep themselves warm (or will they not turn the heaters on for some reason) and in a year, to see if the rest of Europe have learned their lesson to just have basic AC installed for the next heatwave.


In Japan people often claim to be "allergic" to AC too for some reason, and there have been many stories I've heard from foreigners whose Japanese wives refuse to let them run the AC during the night either.

Personally I think their "allergy" is just because most AC units in Japan are disgustingly moldy and never cleaned regularly.


Aren't they translating to JPG on upload automatically anyways?


That must be happening, because I haven't gotten any complaints and I know we have many users on ios.


because updating a single app via the app store is faster than updating the whole OS. Having a security vulnerability in a browser could be fixed immediately, but having to ship out a whole new OS leaves it open for a while. Especially with users generally being against/too lazy to do OS updates


Exactly this. We so often see people still using iOS versions from ~4 years ago despite having options to update. Apple holds the ecosystem back.


Except that they can and have pushed security updates that are not necessarily OS updates. Granted the process is still through the settings app, but the point still stands. They have a channel for pushing yellow and red alert updates. Anything else can easily wait a couple of months.


More like an "ecosystem company".

It's the Hardware, Software and Services in combination. None would work without the other (to reach the scale apple is)


Probably too young if it was easy these companies would still be around I miss them SGI, Sun, Digital, Acorn, particularly SGI and Acorn. All were roadkill of Wintel.


When I click "Get Started" I get greeted with a Github Login button which is kind of ironic


don't feed the trolls - most of his comments are focussed on how bad Europe or the EU is. Weird.


There is an ongoing massive psyop against eu and europe. Dont ask me how do I know, it's across all media and some of them are right but its still full psyop.


It's very obvious from just reading comments on youtube, instagram etc. It drives people towards extreme right parties and not believing in science anymore..


Yes, eurohate is real. Don’t get why though


More and more it seems like we're trying to do a speed run of killing our planet (or rather a planet worth living on).


Yes as everyone loves to retort, the planet will survive! We might not, the current ecosystem wont, no one and nothing we love or care about or cherish is likely to.

But a very lovely species of bug may at some point look down and marvel at the beautiful new world they've conquered. And I guess we've collectively decided we're happy to give them that.


Isn’t everyone and everything we love or care about gonna die or go away in 100-500 years anyways?

Also hasn’t earth already survived many mass extinctions and came back stronger? Maybe this is just the next mass extinction event and the cycle repeats.

It’s quite arrogant to think that everything on earth revolves around humans don’t you think?


Individually for sure, as a People I like to think we could do more than another 500 years if we don't fuck it up too bad.

Selfishly, as a human, I do kinda hope humans get to exist longer than only 500 more years too. I also like cats, so I hope cats get to live longer than that. Maybe whales, they seem chill.

I like the Sagan passage that "the cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

And to star-stuff I'll happily return, but like.... Lemme use these atoms for a minute, and let a few generations of cats, plants and other people form from the recycled atoms after I'm done. "For Those Who Come After."

Let this phase of life on Earth enjoy it's time for a little. Why rush it? The bugs will get their turn eventually. They can wait.


I bet we're gonna end up with so many cool ant species. It totally isn't going to end up with just a few trillion fire ants ruling the planet, right? Right????


Thanks, I didn't know that one! Very impressive speed although quality seems very bad


> although quality seems very bad

The weights they “etched” into the FPGA card that’s used for the ChatJimmy demo are that of a Llama 3-something 8b model.

The actually impressive and novel thing is that Taalas’ve managed to automate that process (clearly – nobody transforms 8 billion numbers into a physical representation by hand).

So now, they can work on scaling this process up, and with low enough lead times (I’ll be convinced they have inside connections to TSMC if they can actually deliver on the promised mere 3-4 months delay), will be able to offer 30-100b+ parameter models under half a year after they’re released, at thousands of tokens per second while probably drawing less wattage (per token, not sure about overall).

Exciting times ahead, folks.


At some point we're going to have these chips for a couple bucks in kids toys


Do you have some reference on what setup you're talking about? I'd like to integrate it into my IDE (cursor/vscode) - are there docs on such a setup?


Start here

https://modal.com/docs/examples/vllm_inference

or give this a go

https://modal.com/docs/examples/opencode_server

You get $30 free credits each month on Modal which is enough to play around (i have no affiliation, just think they run a great service)


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