fonix232

Nah, just aim them for the sun and hope for the best.

They'll be dead due to lack of oxygen within a few days anyways, does it matter if their stinky corpses get burned up in the sun or not?

Aye, I was actually hoping to use the NPU for TTS/STT while keeping the LLM systems GPU bound.

Has Hannity been watching Hazbin Hotel and getting weird feelings in his tightie whities?

Well, it is... they just kinda die during the process.

The thing is, if AMD actually added proper support for it, given it has a somewhat powerful NPU as well... For the total TDP of the package it's still one of the best perf per watt APU, just the damn software support isn't there.

Feckin AMD.

And I am on ROCm - specifically on an 8945HS, which is advertised as a Ryzen AI APU yet is completely unsupported as a target with major issues around queuing and more complex models (although the new 7.0 betas have been promising but TheRock's flip-flopping with their Docker images has been making me go crazy...).

The only time the US is united is when they're under threat from an external source. Let it be the Soviet Union, or 9/11, y'all need an external enemy to unite against, otherwise all the differences come up... and y'all are simply incapable of discussing political differences because half the population still thinks black people were better off as slaves, while the other half simply demands basic respect for all people...

You can disagree with how one uses the right of free speech, and defend said right, in the same breath.

That's been the conservative approach, no matter the country, for a while now. Whine about things being bad, then target progressive ideologies as the culprit behind them, then finally go on a "crusade" of contrarianism, of doing nothing but offending those you consider your enemies.

So yes, the goal is to offend everyone, even at the cost of associating with known child rapists, sex traffickers and other unsavoury characters.

It would be great, but sadly the increase of literacy did not come with an increase in critical thinking, or reasoning skills.

As Qui-Gon Jinn said: the ability to speak (or, in this case, read) does not make you intelligent.

Well yeah, the availability of these more advanced hardware bits is pretty new - for example, all the older GH Minis and Echo devices were running a quite pared down Linux distro with software processing for e.g. wake words.

Transplanting all that to MCUs takes time, but now we have a solid base, a handful of devices/boards that utilise the various XMOS chips, and soon we will be seeing more and more consumer level devices - but again that takes time when there's no big megacorp behind the project pushing it to completion with bottomless finances and hundreds of engineers.

But you're not exactly correct on there being no other options. There's the Satellite1 smart speaker which might be a DIY kit but it does exist. Then there's the Seeed Studio Respeaker Lite w/ ESP32-S3 to which you can slap a speaker (either directly or a powered speaker through the audio jack). In fact the Respeaker lineup has a handful more options for smart speakers all utilising the various XMOS chips.

Just keep in mind that these speakers are DIY mainly for two reasons:

• the technology is pretty new
• there's no big corpo push behind it to deliver profitable (in some way) consumer products

There WILL be consumer products (hopefully soon) on the market, but again, this is being done by volunteers and small startups with just a handful of people, it takes more time to get them on the market than it does for companies the size of Amazon or Google.

To be fair, in the early days HA wasn't too usable. Even around 2018-19, the integrations were limited and the core logic was quite wonky. I'd say around 2020 it became mature enough for daily use for non-tinkerers.