A lot of Pokemon are generic tropes, but some really are blatant ripoffs. I think it’s pretty scummy of Palworld, actually.
But.
If Nintendo don’t think they can prove a copyright violation, they shouldn’t try to get them with some tangential thing, especially those crazy software patents of all things.
This isn’t the smart way, though.
What the homelabbers do (at least before the RAM crisis) is buy Xeon/TR/EPYC boards on the cheap, and then run gaming GPUs for hybrid inference.
This is what I do. I run MiMo 2.5 at 8-10t/s on a 7800X3D/RTX 3090/128GB CPU RAM, more with Dflash. That’s a 300B model: it’s not even in the same class as Qwen 27B, which is what the dev in OP’s article is trying to run.
And this is small-time: setups with 4-8 memory channels can run stuff like Kimi or Deepseek Pro, even faster. Or they can run smaller LLMs with quantization types that are very fast on CPUs, and get crazy speeds.
…And besides, Qwen 27B can run fine on a 4080, with the right framework. It will fit in 16GB as an exl3.
Not that this isn’t a cool hardware hacking project.
…But it’s kind of the wrong approach. It’s about 2 years out of date, as MoEs are king in LLM land now. RAM is horrendously expensive, yes, but so are most used V100s, or used 3090s.
Grounded 1.
And while Pillars of Eternity isn’t my particular cup of tea, others swear by it.
I know the reception to Outer Worlds was “eh” (and I thought it was “eh”). And it was clearly supposed to be a New Vegas-like. But I think people forget Obsidian released 9 games and some great writing since Fallout 4 came out.
This whole thing is silly.
Palword isn’t a Pokemon competitor. It’s an Ark/Valheim-like on PC; it has nothing to do with the Switch, it’s nothing like Pokopia or most Pokemon games. Nintendo doesn’t sell PC games!
This would be akin to Skyrim being an Xbox exclusive, and BGS suing Stardew Valley for “dynamic NPCs” on the Switch version.
…Why? It’s not a competitor at all; what’s the business motivation?
Palworld marketing certainly leaned into the controversy, but honestly Nintendo is stupid for starting this, even from a pure business perspective.
Keep in mind this will disable plug-and-play for other devices one plugs in.
Which is excellent, from a security standpoint, but something to be cognizant of.
By default? Maybe.
But there are both global and granular Windows policies to tweak this. I disabled the device driver specifically, as I do like plug-and-play for other devices.
No, I just mean windows update will pull an LG “driver” and install it to your system automatically when it detects the display.
My dumb LG monitor from 2020 got the adware update.
If you run it on Windows, it has nothing to do with the monitor’s hardware. Windows Update will just install the driver to your system when it recognizes the display.
Samsung one-ups them though. The UI and remote are, somehow, even worse.
This has been going on forever, though. I had an Asus motherboard that literally installed adware, and an even older Sony laptop that topped it.
Same. I noticed earlier this month when I got a popup to install Mcafee, out of nowhere. I was mortified.
That won’t save you. It’ll still install the driver if its hooked to Windows.
Old monitors need it for absolutely nothing, like my 2020 LG. Every feature works out of the box, because it has to over display cables.
I think at most it adds an ICC profile, but it’s not matched to the panel anyway and you can just install that seperately.
There’s a nugget of truth here.
Linux distros require some understanding of underlying subsystems.
Windows… in theory, does not. From AverageUser9000’s perspective, they can hit the Windows key, type “Google Chrome,” and install it, while on linux it’s not immediately obvious why it doesn’t. You’d have to look up documentation on linux repos, 3rd party repos, containerized stores, and… now you’ve just lost the interest of 99% of the population.
I’m not saying AverageUser9000 isn’t a moron, but I kind of sympathize too. We are effectively linux experts, and:
That’s for practical reasons.
Edge is Google Chrome underneath. So a linux release isn’t much more dev effort on Microsoft’s part.
But they develop Office, and obviously linux was never a commercial target for it.
Fuck this.
Fuck. This.
The last thing I want is forcing my money into an OpenAI/Anthropic investment at the peak of their bubble. Don’t listen to any of this, its all part of the con, to keep their scheme going and leave the public holding the bag.
Smartphone cameras are obscured in your pocket though. And isn’t typically always responsive like Alexa attached to your shirt.
I’m not saying you’re wrong though. It’s just lest obvious and doesn’t have the opportunity to film all the time.
I’ve now realizing that these Tech giants have poisoned their entire well:
Want to make AR glasses? Cool! Oh… Uh, I guess we run a platform that handsomely pays pervs for engagement, so that’s not going to work.
Let’s start gaming services. Oh… why does no one want to make an account with us, or trust we will keep it running?
Generative models for creative media. Oh, uh… back to the AR glasses issue. And some others.
Ah, so our LLMs need to reference the web to be at their best which…. We… Kind of killed for a quick buck? Oops.
There are hundreds of examples of this.
And now? The whole reason people use these platforms is being consumed by cancer. Rapidly, from the feel of things.
I’m a cynic. I believe companies like Meta can carry on destroying people and getting away with it, no matter what, and users will be indifferent.
But now I’m starting to suspect they they have nowhere to pivot to, because they’ve burned the forest down.
My Mom already does this around smartphones.
Some family thinks it’s weird or paranoid. I think it’s smart.
It sends the message. It’s an effective, reasonable way to get it across.
Yeah in hindsight I worded that a bit extremely.
It is basically Valheim with creatures though, its similar to many survival crafters (albeit well done).
And I’m speaking more from a “strict” business perspective here. Palworld is obviously courting Pokemon fans, but from Nintendo’s perspective, Palworld is in a different market; I doubt they’re actually losing any sales of Pokemon games to Palworld.