
I have 64 GB in my CAD machine, unfortunately or fortunately it doesn’t really make use of it like systems used to 15 years ago. Many CAD tools write portions to nvme temp drive folders now and don’t fill RAM, that way the companies can claim a lower hardware spec (at least thats my theory on why they no longer max it out)

I don’t find that. I had to upgrade our corporate machine to best on market work station to run 11 properly and its still chugs. It’s also noticeable slower with apps, a downwars trend from 7 to 10 and now 11.
One thing that totally freezes it for too long is office auto installs ai.exe and aimgr.DLL in some deep folder place. If I delete them the system is somewhat better, but updates put them back

Multilayered (deep learning) artificial neural networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning

I was talking about research models with agency.
But we are learning how thought has been engineered into neural models. They give weighting to abstracts that we recognize. Like humans know what a bird is whether that’s one of 1000s of different species or an emm shaped squiggle on a painting. The models have been trained to weigh the input and make logical conclusions.
So its not much different, and if you view the research models in action and not just the output, you see the ‘thought’ process being worked through in plain language.
They have a benefit over us in that researchers have given this eleastic weighting a way to backwardly adjust what they have previously weighted. So what they lack in neural amount, they can gain by absorbng so much “experience” more quickly.
If you listen to the show I mentioned, they also explained why models hallucinate. When they train models they feed it false and true information about some aspects and a supervisor has to correct the output. So by giving false or near false info to train a tighter response the result is we have taught the system that lying is also a method of information. And so the hallucinations aren’t an odd emergent behaviour its a learned behaviour to fulfil its task.
As humans we often think all our thoughts and decisions are our own will, but there is the deterministic belief that given the exact same situational parameters (exact mood, lighting, body temp, hunger level, etc) that our brain would follow the exact same reasoning logic path and produce the same answer again, and our choice is an illusion. If there is truth to that then we are just a biological computer no different than a lab neural model.

Wow you certainly learned a lot trouble shooting that.
I haven’t had something that annoying happen, usually it’s been install and use.
BUT putting Linux on an ancient dell box was a learning experience. I installed the system on the HDD. After shutdowns the aystem would wake back up. The solution was adding kernel quirks line to grub boot with a numeric code, which told the hardware to ignore the self wake up event from the USB bus.
Then when I wanted speed the bios didn’t support NVME boot. So I had to add a small ssd for boot partition , but have rest of system on the NVME drive. I didn’t want to reinstall and resetup so I was learning a lot about gparted and copy pasting partitions and editting fstab to cobble together a replicated set of partitions. It was a great way to understand how formatting, partitioning and mounts all worked.

Yeah, I should have expanded my thought. They use open source, but it is a paid proprietary system, I mentioned it as there is linux or windows offering but people choose what they know; Which is windows. But if you can get corporations on Linux (even non-opensource) it lends legitimacy for when other businesses look for an OS choice, which then can help Foss app adoption

Yeah LDAP, Kerberos, SSO and other systems are available on Linux. Biggest thing seems to be peoples reliance on MS office document compatibility, so even though the libre/open office type products can supplant that, it is a tough sell when your vendor or customer wants MS word as a requirement of doing business together.
We sell PDM/PLM systems, some people choose the Linux version for their enterprise, many choose the MS windows version, because its just what people know about.
I think Linux on steamdeck might usher in a new generations of people that know about Linux and want to try it in the wok environment.

Academics can get Siemens NX CAD licenses at a very low nominal fee. Version 12 or lower runs on REL, SUSE but also will run on OpenSUSE.
Newer NX versions dropped GUI support for Linux, just headless cad for batching work.
Maybe they will bring it back once the X and Wayland transition is complete.
Yeah the company I have worked for for a long time is growing, this year it has become apparent that some upper dudes have no clue what actually happens and just give direction they dreamed up that they think is how things work. The next level down is like just ignore that, that’s not how we get things done.
I get that the upper level is supposed to provide long term stragegy,(and some are brilliant minds) but when executive decisions are getting made when they don’t want to hear about the actual detail, there are poor choices made in an arrogant sort of way, and everyone just does an off camera face palm

The modding is great, I got so much extra content for Mudrunner by the mods available in the community.
Same with Mech Warrior5, even just adding the war mod turned on more fire and smoke from salvos and thick clouds from burning mechs; it brought the game from a cartoony weapon feel to an actually battle scene.

This query made me think of this sketch as steams’ search techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMboDekgvz0
Most work, they even have a list of known working bank apps. Usually it is just changing a setting in the app info to reduce exploit protection. Airline apps seem to be the worst at wanting a lot or device control.