Edward Snowden doing GPU reviews? This timeline is becoming weirder every day.
Legitimately thought this was a hard-drive.net post
“Whistleblows” as if he’s some kind of NVIDIA insider.
Intel Insider now that would’ve made for great whistleblowing headlines.
I bet he just wants a card to self host models and not give companies his data, but the amount of vram is indeed ridiculous.
Exactly, I’m in the same situation now and the 8GB in those cheaper cards don’t even let you run a 13B model. I’m trying to research if I can run a 13B one on a 3060 with 12 GB.
You can. I’m running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.
Oh nice, that’s faster than I imagined.
You need a pretty large context window to fit all the reasoning, ollama forces 2048 by default and more uses more memory
I’m running deepseek-r1:14b on a 12GB rx6700. It just about fits in memory and is pretty fast.
Swear next he’s gonna review hentai games
“Some hentai games are good” -Edward Snowden
Note that this is from 2003
I’ll keep believing this is a theonion post
Does he work for Nvidia? Seems out of character for him.
Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table
And the user who posted it. I really wish there was a simple way to block sensational posts from my feed.
Thanks for giving me the idea. BRB, making a keyword filter for the words “slams” and “slammed”.
Careful now, you might end up with few news posts
Don’t forget blasted and clapped back.
But then you lose out on a bunch of wrestling posts. And naked wrestling posts.
And nothing of value was lost.
“Whistleblows”. What a moronic take, in this regard taking the word of Edward Snowden is like taking the word of a random stranger in the street. At least we know on what Edward Snowden is likely spending his days on in Russia: Gaming. Wouldn’t blame him, it’s not like he can freely travel.
That headline is so stupid that I refuse to read the article
Ha, my sentiment exactly.
He’s not wrong
I’ll wait for the Julian Assange review.
I legit tried to understand how a lackluster VRAM capacity could spy on us.
Just wanna say, cool username
You depend on the cloud instead~
The video card monopoly (but also other manufacturers) have been limiting functionality for a long time. It started with them restricting vGPU to enterprise garbage products, which allows Linux users to virtualize their GPU for things like playing games with near-native speeds using Windows on Linux. This is one of the big reasons Windows still has such a large marketshare as the main desktop OS.
Now they want to restrict people running AI locally so that they get stuck with crap like Copilot-enabled PCs or whatever dumb names they want to come up. These actions are intentional. It is anti-consumer & anti-trust, but don’t expect our government to care or do anything about it.
So to put the likelihood of this in perspective, let me just repeat it to see if I understand the claim.
You’re saying that one of the big reasons of Windows’ market share is how artificially inefficient it is to install Linux, spin up a Virtual Machine, run Windows inside THAT and then run a game?
That’s the mainstream use case that is propping up Windows adoption in this scenario?
The main thing propping up Windows as the main OS (meaning it is running at the root layer) is exclusive hardware GPU support which is used for gaming & many apps. Otherwise, automating running Windows apps & Windows on Linux would have become much more mainstream.
This is demonstrably wrong on a scale where it loops around to becoming hard to explain, so that’s a neat trick.
There are enough people who have never heard of or don’t understand the concept of virtual machines to keep Windows as the biggest mainstream OS several times over. There isn’t a “root layer” in computers as far as normal humans are concerned. They’re computers and then a Windows pops up and that’s how that works.
At the very most, they understand conversion layers on the basis of having gone from an old Macbook to a new Macbook, and even that is like a tenth of the market (still several times bigger than Linux adoption, though).
The idea that a mass of people are waiting on the sidelines, chomping at the bit for direct GPU access through an extra layer of software fine tuning to be able to run some brand name Windows app with no Linux version is absurd. Even games are not the problem, as evidenced by that being mostly solved via Proton and not changing much.
I don’t mind either way, but man, consider what other assumptions you may be making that are wildly off, particularly if they’re on something more important than your hopes for relative OS market share on home computers.
You know what is wrong, is that you come along & talk about how no one wants to use virtual machines because it is difficult. I just got done saying someone would have automated the process. You act like no one would have the choice but for it to be cumbersome & difficult. That is called a tiny brain thought process…
They can’t do it right now cause vGPU is not supported on almost all consumer cards. There is absolutely a “root” layer BTW, in this case it would be the Linux kernel. It is far more technical than computers & then Windows “pops up.” Seriously, it is obvious you have no clue what you’re talking about, yet you’re here spewing false information, for what purpose?
People are waiting on the sidelines for a better OS, where they can feel less invaded by Windows bloat & invasiveness but where they can still play their games & run their Windows apps, which Wine doesn’t support everything. Thinks like Adobe products or Office solutions, a lot of users rely on these for work. Proton doesn’t solve everything. I appreciate optimism, but then there is also the real world.
Consider your assumptions, that you believe developers are so dumb that if users could use virtual GPUs on consumer cards, that developers wouldn’t be able to automate a solution that makes it simple.
They already made it simple, are you kidding me? You are running a different OS inside an entrirely fictitious computer that doesn’t exist, and it takes a few clicks to set up on stock software that comes with your OS or is freely downloadable online. The whole thing is magic.
Magic that is still way below the awareness of common users. I’m not acting like “no one” wants to use VMs, I’m telling you that, at scale, this is not key functionality for the vast majority of the userbase. Which is entirely accurate.
And because the vast majority of the userbase is on Windows and doesn’t even know this would be a problem, that’s not WHY they’re on Windows or not on Linux. It’s not even a “tiny brain” thing, it’s just what people use (and don’t use) computers for.
But that’s assuming there is actual high demand for running big models locally, so far I’ve only seen hobbyists do it.
I agree with you in theory that they just want more money but idk if they actually think locally run AI is that big of a threat (I hope it is).
But what does Ja Rule think?
Who cares what Ja Rule thinks? I’m holding out for Busta Rhymes.
What the fuck is going on with the world
People are showing us who they really are when push comes to shove.
Snowden showing us he’s a card reviewer
Edward Snowdon reads a spec sheet
Was this written by AI? The headline word salad contains all the buzzwords.
Edward Snowden PILEDRIVES the Nvidia RTX 50 series into a crowded bitcoin farm
“Trash fuckin cuck card kys”
Don’t that distract you from that fact that in 2025 Edward Snowden threw Nvidia’s RTX 50 series off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
Whistleblows on poor performance is actually insane lol
That might’ve made sense if we was working as a contractor for Nvidia and revealed that info prior to launch. Maybe. Well, actually no, but it’s a lot closer than whatever this is.
What the fuck is wrong with this timeline.
Do the amish accept atheists?
The real question is whether they accept hypersexual autists.
EDIT: … unable to exist without Tao Te Ching, thyme tea and a few good soundtracks.
How would Snowden get a hold of one of these in Russia? Maybe through an intermediary in Kazakhstan?
Then again it’s hard finding one here even in the US since they all went out of stock within 5 minutes of being listed.
According to russian over at r/hardware GPUs have become cheaper in Russia since the ban as they are now being smuggled instead of imported via Europe with all extra cost that implies.
That doesn’t make sense or I’m reading it wrong
Legal weed is more expensive sometimes
Smugglers take less money than government apparently
Snowden added, “As someone who wants to sweep away corruption, there’s a lot to like in the new ShamWow. And for those really tough, dirty stains, there’s OXYCLEAN!!! With ShamWow and Oxyclean, you don’t need to be Rushin’!”
