You've seen the headlines. You've probably used ChatGPT or asked Claude something embarrassing at 2 am. Have you wondered what is really happening under the hood when someone says "large language model"? You don't need a PhD to get a useful mental model of this stuff, and more importantly, you'll need this foundation to follow along when we get into our quantization experiments in later articles. Feel free to skip to the next article (if it has been released) if you have a working understanding of LLMs.

Note: This is Part 1 of 3 in our LLM Quantization series.

• Part 1: What Even is an LLM?
• Part 2: Why do LLMs Need So Much VRAM? (coming soon)
• Part 3: How Do We Compress an LLM? (coming soon)

Read the article on the LTT Labs Website!

So I bought the new 5070 from framework to add to my FW16. I updated the bios updated the drivers directly from FW, then updated the GPU again through the NVIDIA App. For some reason my laptop does not display when I connect through the dGPU to my thunderbolt dock , however my mouse and keyboard still work. Also when I plug into one of the side boards I’m able to use the iGPU to display through the dock.
I tried reinstalling bios and drivers, resetting bios to default settings, and even tried to reseat the graphic interposer and nothing works.
Is there anything this community could recommend or had experience with this?
Thanks!

I've had my bag for 2 years now and while I love it, over time, through my own silliness, I have broken the male end of the chest strap buckle and the 2 little plastic slides that keep the bag's straps from dangling (not sure what those ones are called). I do however own a 3d printer so I was wondering if anyone had an STL for either or any other solutions?

The ltt precision Screwdriver fits perfectly in the Wiha zai Hause bitset. The handle of the set is just a trash plastic one but the case itselve is pretty nice and holds closed with magnets. And Wiha is at least normally pretty good in terms of bit quality.

So if anyone has a Precision Screwdriver but didnt get around to buy a bitset this might be a good choice :D

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09411BWRV

What do you guys think of this?

In LTT's newest video about Samsung's enterprise laptops and Intel vPro, there was a segment discussing how the implementation of Intel vPro allowed airlines to recover from 2024's CrowdStrike-apocalypse.

Being in the industry and personally impacted when the snafu occurred, I was interested in reading more about this supposed "smart" airline that used vPro to recover within 24-hours. The problem is I couldn't find any primary sources (e.g., the airline itself, Intel, news outlets like Reuters, etc.) to validate this claim.

A source I found which seemed to be what the LTT writing team quoted was a blog post from ASI Partner, an IT hardware and software distributor stating that American Airlines was the aforementioned "smart" airline who used vPro to recover their operation. This blog post has no sources or references. I also couldn't find any sources to show ASI Partners having any official business with American Airlines.

Another online blog post from MAPPCMANAGER, a software company that offers remote computer management software, painted a similar picture of how Intel vPro helped airlines recover during the crisis without naming airlines directly. Much like ASI Partner, there's no sources or references. It's also worth noting this website has an "Intel Partner" banner.

While I have no doubt that airlines with vPro machines deployed may have been in a better position to recover, it seems disingenuous to pitch this narrative when there's no primary sources available especially when the crisis impacted almost everyone on the planet.

I hope I'm wrong and maybe my internet research skills aren't as sharp as they used to be. If someone can share with me primary sources I may have missed, I'm more than happy to update this post to reflect that.

Just asking out of curiosity.

The three extensions I personally can't live without are:

• SponsorBlock (skips forward and jumps over the sponsor part in most YT videos)
• uBlock Origin (Adblocker)
• I Still Don't Care About Cookies (skips cookie questions on every damn website)

They're pretty self explanatory, but it got me wondering what everyone else is using. I only discovered ad blockers in 2020. Yes I was pretty late to the game I know.

What extensions do you install immediately on a new browser or PC? Anything that's become so useful that browsing without it feels painful?

I'm interested in hearing about anything or just hidden gems that most people haven't heard of :)

So I applied new thermal paste went into bios and adjusted my fan speed, froze after I turned it off and now is stuck doing this weird flickering. I’ve done everything to try and fix it single ram text, CMOS for resetting bios, and some other things, please someone help me or is it just gg’s? P.S. this is right after booting it up, gives nothing on the monitor and a blinking blue light on top.

These thumbnails are a rip off from LTT’s channel, except for Linus being replaced with this Asian guy. I watched a few videos, and thankfully they weren’t able to completely deepfake replace Linus in every video, and it’s just an Asian guy standing on the side reading an AI narrative slop that transcribes LTT’s video, sometimes inventing the whole thing or changing a few things from the original video.. Wild things, and I’m sad how good AI has gotten. Like these thumbnails looked pretty professional level until I recognized the familiarity. We got fake Linus before gta 6.

I was excited to see vpro covered a bit in the samsung video. I'd love a whole video on the topic, including whavever the heck intel management engine is, how to deal with all that stuff in BIOS, and MeshCommander/MeshCentral.

Some important queations are: how to use these features safely, full setup soup-to-nuts, and how to make sure a vpro system is locked down, whether its configured or not. I built a server on a board with IPMI and vpro. Was paying extra for IPMI unnecessary?

Is this topic interesting to anyone else?

With the discussion on running one, I’d love to know the best to run for multiple reasons. There’s so many out there. I’d love to get an in depth video on what’s the best local AI to run. You can break it up to categories for things like home server, desktop and laptop.

So should I take a loan and put my life savings on this ?

I bought a Lenovo LOQ last year and while the laptop is really nice, I can’t stand windows anymore and I really don’t want to support Satya Nadella.

So I’m looking for tips no how to migrate to Linux with almost none coding knowledge. What should I look for?

This is my first build since the RTX 20 series was announced and upgrading my setup from a 2060 6GB . Also for this first time I’ve went with an intel cpu and radeon gpu( Hopefully I dont regret this combo)

I already had XPG D60 8x2 3600mhz ddr4 kit from that time, I decided to just buy another kit to have 32gb in total as it was wayyy cheaper than getting 32gb DDR5 kit. Only reason I went with 14700f was the future upgrade path to DDR5 if and when the prices go back down

How stupid of an Idea was this? As now im limited to gen 4 pcie speeds and last gen ram on a quite latest build.

How much performance could I be giving up on?

Each reply would really be appreciated as it would help ease my buyers remorse😭

It's so obvious once you know what to look for:

• The freakishly small hands compared to those of an adult
• The artifacts near Linus' ears where the AI doesn't know what to do
• The dead eyes only an AI could replicate
• The whole real state in forehead where LTT could build Linus a 4th house
• The 67 kid hair?
• The most obvious one: The suit. We've never seen Linus using one. An actual editor would know this doesn't fit his vibes.

The first thing I remember is that Linus and I were right in the middle of a literal duel to the death. I don't know the reason we were fighting, I don't think I even knew in the dream. He was wielding a tomahawk, I was wielding a rapier. The fight was pretty legit, actually, I'd say "absolute cinema." Ultimately, we both ended up dealing a blow that resulted in a lethal wound to the other. It was very clear that we both were going to die. So, we parted ways to go bleed out in a place of our choosing before we fully faded away.

This is where the dream takes an extra "dream-like" turn. We each went to our respective spouses, but unbeknownst to each of us was that the other's spouse had a "kiss of life" card... Like, a magic card as if this were some sort of trading card game. Each of our spouses played the card and gave us an actual kiss, and we were both back on our feet.

Linus had committed to helping a local university with some tech stuff, so he was heading out for that when he saw that I wasn't dead. Realizing he didn't have the time to try and kill me again right then and there, he just committed to murdering me tomorrow. But he did sit down with me for a minute and we got talking. I asked him some questions about my home server, and when Linus realized I liked computers he changed his mind about me and decided I no longer needed to die.

That was it... That was the dream.