Try limiting your PCIe speed to 3.0 (just for now) in the BIOS.

It’s a longshot for you, but I had similar issues when I tried to run PCIe too fast over a riser. It’s theoretically possible your motherboard is borked and can’t support the higher PCIe speed of the 9070.

ALSO, update your mobo BIOS!

Can’t emphasize this enough. If you’re having some weird hardware issue, try updating it.

If you’re wondering about Fedora vs CachyOS, it comes down to what you do on your PC. And what you’re used to.

If you want better “preconfiguration” for graphics stuff, CachyOS is the way to go. With Fedora you will end up referencing and maintaining a whole lot more yourself, while the CachyOS maintainers basically do all that maintinance and config optimization for you.

But Fedora might be better for a less GPU-focused “workstation” type system.

Generally, I’d look at the “style” and interests of distro maintainers. CachyOS is built by a collective of linux gaming/compute enthusiasts that snowballed into popularity, though it does inherit all the work from Arch. Fedora is a long standing workstation/server workhorse, a “pre release” for Red Hat enterprise linux.

To be blunt, I dunno if that’s coming? Apple’s designs are pretty conservative these days; I doubt they’d make a big folding iPhone.

iPhones do go on firesales from some carriers, sometimes even below cost.

Well, with how things are going with Windows and laptop OEMs, it’s still a better deal than those.

A lot of user need an iPad with a touchpad and keyboard for their needs, which is precisely what this is.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous.

All the AI stuff they’re shipping in Chrome, and the concern with JXL is security/attack surface? That’s a total lie. It’s so much better than AVIF for certain niches, and it’s already supported by Apple.

It doesn’t work in Chromium at all, only in forks that hack it back in like Thorium.

Firefox needs a flag enabled in about:config, yes.

…And yeah. Realistically, a low framerate AV1 (or AVC) webm is more optimal for this, better supported, and will perform better on a lot of hardware. TBH JXL should drop the animation stuff and focus on static images (which it’s incredible at) and HDR support.

iOS Safari/Photos will render the first frame of the JXL, but not play the animation.

+1

Take anything said here with a grain of salt, as we don’t know you, nor these two guys.

So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?

It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.

I mean, even as-is, it’s a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.

What people don’t get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It’s a utility to sift through millions of documents, or run simple bots, or operate work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that’s really neat as the cost approaches “basically free.”

Basically, imagine running Claude Code on your iPhone, and Claude Code itself not really changing all that much. Imagine the economic implications for the big AI houses.

As for the marketing, I want some of what those tech execs are smoking.

Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:

https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core

Not a fork, I don’t think.

My distro (CachyOS) has it packaged, so maybe you can request for yours to do it as well?

On the contrary, to quote Wikipedia’s article on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger

Since Sanger’s departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being “broken beyond repair”.[8] He has argued that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise. Since 2020, he has also accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal ideological bias in its articles.[9][10] Sanger’s effort to change Wikipedia was seen by some as part of a right-wing attack on Wikipedia.[11][12]

Which lines up with external articles written by him that I’m reading, including his take on Grokipedia: https://larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokipedia-a-first-look/

Of course Wikipedia is biased (probably western/liberal biased), astroturfed, and such. I was taught that in middle school. But calling it something like a CIA misinformation op falls into “perfect is the enemy of good” at best, and sounds more like the efforts of bad actors trying to tear down information sources they can’t control.

I really don’t like that.

For all its flaws, Wikipedia is one of the last “free” information oases on Earth. It’s critical to humanity’s survival. It should improve, yes, but we don’t need any more conspiracies undermining it.

So the next consoles would be cloud/streaming consoles only.

They very well could be.

The hardware is near-identical though, or at least it was for PS Now. So the barrier to re-use game streaming hardware for a physical console is fairly low.

I think you’re being quite a bit disingenuous here. AMD hasn’t made a “highest end GPU variant” in a literal decade. They’ve never had a competitor to the Titan cards nor the *90 variants, and with the *80 variant slowly taking over the top-end consumer spec(because the *90 took over the TItan classification), all of this isn’t because of AI. It’s just AMD lagging behind the entire time. And I love AMD, but they’ve never been known for highest end. And Intel has NEVER made a highest end GPU variant. So not sure where that claim is coming from.

It’s about silicon size to me. Even if a bit behind Nvidia’s mega dies, AMD made “big die” cards consistently, like the 6970, 7970, 290, Fiji, Vega 64, the 6900, 7900 XTX. But the 9000 series is different. The top-end 9070 XT is “only” 356.5 mm2 and 256-bit; a mid-range size. The only recent precedent for that is the RX 480, but those were cheaper and sold alongside higher end GPUs.

And with Arc Battlemage, Intel allegedly had a bigger die in the works, but canceled it. Presumably because they didn’t think it was financially viable.

You make fair points. I’m probably panicking and being a little dramatic here… Custom SoCs would probably be questionable if regular graphics are.

But I still don’t like the trajectory. It feels like AMD/Intel are struggling to even stay alive in the space, while Nvidia seems to think it’s not so important, and I don’t like where that goes.

Others have explained it well; splitting calls up into parallel subjobs, and programatic prompt engineering.

And what is the non theortical limit of AI?

Shrug.

But practically, transformer models are kinda hitting an “innovation” wall. Big companies aren’t taking risks to try and fix (say) the necessity of temperature to literally randomize outputs, or splitting instructions/context/output, or self correction (like an undo token), adaptation on the fly, anything.

All this has been explored in research papers, yet they aren’t even trying it at larger scales. They’re simply scaling up what they have, or (in the case of the Chinese labs) focusing on lowering resource usage.

Basically, corporate LLM development is far more conservative than you’ve been lead to believe, and that’s the wall LLMs are smacking into.

So from the inference / customer computation side of things, it isn’t a problem.

Not necessarily. There are inference schemes where spreading MoE models across 40+ GPUs with a fast interconnect yields better efficiency.

looks like blackwells can run sunstained at 88c

The coolant still needs to remain relatively cool to hold that silicon temperature, though. Practically it can’t be like 60C.

Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward.

It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.

It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.

Been using it for months, and I adore it. +1

Only thing I wish it had is JXL support hacked in like Thorium.

Sometimes I shop on Cromite (specifically for its uber hardcore anti fingerprinting), or switch to Firefox for a bit, but I’ve found myself mostly using Helium.

Yeah, we’re gonna need more details, like your DE, GPU, maybe the monitor?

But I would start by test booting images and just… see what OBS package works out of the box. Try Cachy or Nobara with KDE, plus whatever their respective wikis say about OBS usage.