it's always stupid, but the rent seek behavior that enshitifies everything guarantees that we'll keep doing it anyways since we only care when it fails this spectacularly.

DON'T send them ro Israel

Cool. '..NPO, or Near-Packaged Optics' While not the same, the folding logic technique that stacks several processing layers on their new cpu's, also focus on data-transmissions and thus saves on heat, quicker transport, and a few other secondary benefits. It seem like Huawei rethinks communication on all HW scales. ..and that thinking 'kind of' goes for Chinese AI models also. Impressive that Huawei/China can jump in and teach old dogs some new tricks, imho.. Wonder if we will get active-computing ram where data+simple compute mostly stays on ram, active computing screens or other 'crazy' optimisations on traditional designs. At least I'm confident where it will come from..

How's the output quality on the lowest quant?

Thanks for letting me know! I'll have a look.

I’ve been enjoying Qobuz recently. They have streaming and an option to buy. I’ve been told they’re a fairly ethical option in terms of payment to artists, but haven’t researched myself. There’s also Subvert.fm with a lot of smaller artists and some real gems if you dig for them.