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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 30/06/2026

Given that AMD and Intel can't outdo Nvidia and they have far greater amount of engineering talent/resources, I'm highly skeptical Bolt can. Hopefully, Bolt isn't BSing, but only time will tell if they release a functional product before they run out of funding/money.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 28/05/2026

I know Bloomberg f*cked u guys b4, but they did a report on how data centers distorted the normal flow of electricity damaging home appliances and power equipment; I'd imagine these things could do the same. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 06/10/2025

This also contradicts the point of OpenAI developing an in-house ASIC/custom chip to save money. If OpenAI is not able to develop ASICs that are more cost-efficient than Nvidia and now AMD, they have huge sunk costs in R&D right now. I'm wondering if their ASIC with Broadcom will ever be tapped-out.

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404 Media @404media.co · 02/10/2025

A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat’s consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. 🔗 www.404media.co/red-hat-inve...

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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from GitLab repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 30/09/2025

There was a rumor from an alleged AI architect at Google that at current usage rates, datacenter GPUs had 1-3 year lifespans. If that is true, that's an insane amount of depreciation costs/e-waste. It's not feasible that Microsoft or Nvidia will subsidize OpenAI long-term without a profit road map.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 29/09/2025

Yeah, but KDE is still the most feature-rich DE. Vanilla Gnome IMHO lacked what I considered basic features and I had to install Gnome extensions on it with the exception of Ubuntu's implementation. Since most users will be coming from Windows, I feel that Plasma will be easier to transition to.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 29/09/2025

I totally agree about, but since Bazzite uses KDE, they still have to deal with the challenge of separate release cycles of Plasma and KDE frameworks; I remember reading a while ago that those were significant factors in why Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Suse still use Gnome for stability in enterprise.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 29/09/2025

Earlier this year, Nvidia driver 570 series was so unstable to the point when I updated to it, it nuked the SDDM/login screen on Manjaro. I had to use TTY to rollback to a driver in the 550 series and modify some kernel headers and modules; the GPU of the machine I was using was a 4070Ti.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 28/09/2025

I think it was extremely arrogant and incompetent of them to think they could outdo Google's TPUs which have been developed for around 10 years or even Microsoft that's still struggling to rollout their own chips for AI.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 27/09/2025

Since gas turbines are the fastest way to scale up electricity infrastructure, why is nobody asking whether those can be built and delivered within 2-3 years. Tldr; this report says gas turbines can take between 5-7 years to deliver. www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 27/09/2025

That's not necessarily true when you factor in the resale value of the cards and that Nvidia has better performance per watt (energy costs). Although LLMs are likely in a huge bubble now, CUDA is still dominant in other ML applications such as drug discovery, image/facial recognition, etc.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 27/09/2025

Nvidia is the undisputed leader in performance and features in graphics. For performance and compatibility in ML libraries and containers, AMD's ROCm is moving in the right direction, but is no where near CUDA's level. It's not even a real contest between Nvidia and AMD in most use cases.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 26/09/2025

The thing is that the overwhelming majority of gamers use Nvidia GeForce video cards and Nvidia doesn't port their software like Nvidia Broadcast or new features immediately on Linux or at all. Outside of compute/CUDA, Nvidia stuff often has bugs/requires more maintenance, especially from KDE.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 26/09/2025

Seems like something with a limited use case and/or a product feature to show investors they're "innovating". www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk6I...

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Introducing ChatGPT Pulse

YouTube video by OpenAI

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 26/09/2025

Oracle doesn't have a track record of dealing with consumer products; in the enterprise software place, they're notoriously known for shady/complex licensing rules. If they flex their power on TikTok, it's quite possible they'll destroy the user experience and rot the platform.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 25/09/2025

Right now, Nvidia is ~7% of the U.S. stock market in terms of market cap. Although not as crazy as Samsung being 20% or more of South Korea's total GDP, this is heading in that direction, though I doubt it'll ever be that extreme. Nonetheless, this is creating another "too big to fail" IMHO.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 24/09/2025

Something that nobody asked for, probably more "AI" slop. www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-... I wonder if it's going to be like Clippy. Seems like more UX degradation/rot.

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Xbox rolls out CoPilot AI for gaming - KitGuru

Microsoft has begun the public rollout of its AI-powered Gaming Copilot for Windows PC. The feature,

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 31/01/2025

Keep up the good fight! If we get another pandemic, we'll be totally fu****; having universal healthcare will serve as the best first line of defense against that. Also, Trump admin is gutting our federal health agencies right now including CDC, they just removed info on STIs on the CDC website.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 21/01/2025

Yeah, I hate walled ecosystems; I've had a bad impression of HP ever since they were destroyed/merged with Compaq by Carly Fiorina in the early 2000s. I'm still using a 14 year old Canon multi-function printer; nice thing about that printer is that it even works with Arch Linux & derivatives.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 16/01/2025

Still surprised that the AVIF format is still not widely supported amongst most mainstream apps; IMHO it's a great next gen image format since has significantly better file compression than the current mainstream ones, HDR support, and animation feature like GIF.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 15/01/2025

I like how it comes with a good assortment of themes for eye candy.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 11/01/2025

Plz have it well polished in terms of adjustable graphics settings like FFXV rather than being half-baked like in FFVII Remake-Intergrade.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 25/12/2024

Yeah, Elon Musk made the kind of degenerate online behavior that was mostly confined to sites like 4chan, 8chan, etc. become normalized on a mainstream platform. White supremacists, incels, misogynists, grifters, etc. reign freely on that platform.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 25/12/2024

Both men have the "Greed Is Good" mentality; people with this tend be like "I got mine, f*** the rest." Sadly, Milton Friedman normalized this around 40 years ago in academia; it eventually propelled a huge generation of dou**ebag business executives and think tanks to promote this.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 24/12/2024

Yes, we should since it's a gateway to FOSS that's very tangible, and it'll help mitigate the ensh**ification from Big Tech in terms of turning everything into a paid subscription.

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Felix Louie @felixlouie.com · 18/12/2024

A thing that never made the headlines during the last election cycle was that the person who propped up JD Vance (Peter Thiel) tried to start his own floating city-state/country in the Pacific, but failed; Dems should have tied JD Vance as being funded by a traitor. phys.org/news/2018-03...

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TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel

YouTube video by seasteading

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