Don’t go buying one of these based on it being solid state. There was controversy around the Yoshino brand who claimed to have a solid state power station that turned out to be a hybrid chemistry at best. Make your purchasing decisions based on real world test results.

So this is like a vapor chamber but on chip package level?

Depends on what protocol the hub uses to communicate to the devices. ZWave and Zigbee are standards that are often compatible with generic hubs and Home Assistant. Gotta do your research on each device and how well they are supported

Well that depends on which religion you follow and how strictly you follow it. Might want to be a bit more specific

Not what I’d call easy. But still neat

Nice. I did a similar NAS setup with a Minisforum MS-A1. A lot more powerful but also a lot more expensive. I’d have gone for this hardware instead if it existed half a year ago.

Alyx is well optimized. I played through it on a 5600XT

They’re sometimes compatible. I have French style plugs in Belgium, but most of my devices have both a hole and side connectors to be cross-compatible.

“For AI” I guess it’s not suitable to store regular old data on then.

I think a UPS is overkill unless you also have brown-outs to cover for. A surge protector should be enough

You can’t get ultra-rich while being a compassionate person

There are benchmarks on the huggingface page. The larger model is close to GPT4o performance. Which makes this worse than deepseek-r1. But it is a smaller model and not a reasoning model (doesn’t use up extra tokens to “think”). So still very impressive and important for open source.

Belgian here. We have not fallen to fascism. I would not call NVA extreme right, just right. That would be Vlaams Belang, who also got a lot of votes to be fair but they’re not part of the government coalition because none of the other parties want to work with those nutcases. There is a coalition of parties. Because we have a healthy number of parties to vote for, no single party ever gets the majority vote. Five parties just signed a coalition agreement. That’s why Belgium has the record for being the longest without a government. It takes a long time for these parties to come to an agreement but it also means more balanced policies. Things change slowly in Belgian government, we don’t get big swings from left to right. But that doesn’t make for good headlines.

If I understand correctly, very little. Since proton already implemeted esync, which was a workaround for this.

The size of the updates and also the size of the game itself might be due to how it is packaged. You want data that belongs together and is accessed together to be stored together. For example, the game might have one file per level that is loaded and kept in memory when you enter that level. You might even store the same asset multiple times if that means it’s easier to access sequentially. This optimization is less necessary in the are of ssds but you don’t want your game to be completely unplayable on people that still run it from a hard drive.