If you set the fan speed manually to 100% it will sustain almost 40, but then it’s screaming and burning hot.

How do you actually set the fan speed? ThinkPads seem quite resistant there, the one software I found for it wanted me to install a driver, which failed as it has security vulnerabilities :-/

I wish Dell would offer AMD CPUs, they are mostly an Intel shop.

Mine actually has a dGPU and at 20W it doesn’t thermal throttle, but it still runs way too slow. Today I tried unlocking the boost again so it goes up to 50W or so… but it barely makes a difference as the CPU hits 100°C in 0.5 seconds (:

I was even toying with the idea of repasting that crap, but it’s a work laptop, so nah. Annoyed the IT department about a replacement PC again. We switched to Dell, so the new XPS 14 looks kinda nice, but when you look at benchmarks and noise it also sucks. So desktop PC it is, I’m sick of it.

i7-1260P, I did try limiting the boost, but the CPU runs like ass anyway.

Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.

I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (:

I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.

Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.

I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.

Yeah, I stumbled over that when I wanted to charge my phone while I’m away in a meeting. Plugged it into the USB-C at my desk, suddenly the content of my phone opened up on my two office monitors, lol.

Whoops, you’re right, I meant light novels :)

I did try to read “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1 (light novel)” and had to give up. Like the most the author could use to describe Emilia was “she’s beautiful” about three times on a page. Overall it could just be bad English translations and the novels are totally fine in Japanese.

This is not about Toradora, but general visual light novels: I quite liked the Re:Zero anime, so I thought I’d read the visual light novel as it’s much further ahead (and I actually love reading). But the quality of the writing was so damn bad.

Are all visual light novels like that? Simplified English to get the point across, but not a good read overall?

No domestic mass surveillance. So fuck everyone not from the US.

I’m running LTS versions of Ubuntu server (and Windows 11 on my PC). Debian would be more stable, but then it’s so far behind that it’s a pain to use at times, especially for running any kind of game server. Ubuntu has been pretty good so far, but LTS to LTS isn’t always easy.

Step 1: ah so glad this setup is complete and fully tweaked. So let’s leave it as is.

Step 2: but then again maybe I should try out this little extra thing I just found online that might not work…

Step 2: Why is x broken after an update!?

…

Step 99: ah so glad this setup is complete and fully tweaked. So let’s leave it as is.

Is it just me? I’ve had more issues with Linux updates than Windows updates at this point. Don’t get me started with major distro updates.

I honestly care less about the war mongering and more about the “domestic surveillance” part. Like domestic just counts for US citizens, which I’m not. So fuck him too (:

It’s Iran, not Iraq.

Just calm down, I’m not pro AI, but we can still be positive about someone making the right choice for once.

Throwing enough money around there’s plenty of other options for the DoW, be it Microsoft, Google or even hosting their own LLM (open source models are pretty much on-par now).

Dario Amodei is busy calling out the pile of shit that’s the US government. Fighting Altman doesn’t get him anything right now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Okay, so listen:

The DoW offered Anthropic the contract and they declined, as it has clauses that would allow the government to do whatever they wanted.

Then OpenAI signed the same contract.

How can you say they are the same, when the first company refused the contract? I’m not even from the US and definitely not pro Trump. But there’s things besides black and white.

I still don’t get your point. Anthropic didn’t sign the contract, OpenAI did.

The contract is too loose, it pretty much allows them to do whatever they want.

They literally didn’t sign the new contract and now they are getting punished for it. What are you even talking about?

I missed when sucking up to the Trump administration and echoing Cold War style nationalism was “fair”. If that’s the case, OpenAI’s behavior is fair.

It’s just capitalism. Anthropic pushed against the administration and now they are about to be branded as “supply chain risk”. OpenAI bent over and are going to get billions in funding that they sorely need (and hopefully don’t get, let them fail).

You miss the mark though: Anthropic only praised the administration, but that’s just words to give the Twitter pedo in chief a pat on the head. OpenAI actually signed a contract and they are providing their service. Massive difference.

Especially ChatGPT is awful for that. You ask it something and it always spews a whole page of content.

At work we use Claude, which does produce better output and also calls out your bullshit. There it’s actually helping quite a bit (software development), but of course you have to understand what you are changing and clean things up.

Oof, I don’t even get what they are trying to accomplish there. Maybe they had some kind of social training that told them “Summarize and reply what you understood first to show that you listened and avoid miscommunication, then add your response.” and their brain short circuited and started to think a ChatGPT summarization is the same.

I’d get pretty hostile at work if someone started to do that…