ChatGPT 5.6: (Is fat32 a good option for a 64gb external drive) FAT32 is suitable for a 64 GB external drive only when maximum compatibility is the priority.

The main limitation is that individual files cannot exceed 4 GB. That makes FAT32 unsuitable for large videos, disk images, backups, or many game files.

Better choices:

exFAT: Best general-purpose option for Windows, macOS, Linux, TVs, consoles, and other modern devices. Supports files larger than 4 GB.

NTFS: Better for a Windows-focused drive, permissions, and reliability, but has weaker write support on some non-Windows devices.

ext4: Best for Linux-only use, but Windows and macOS do not support it natively.

FAT32: Use mainly for older hardware, firmware updates, boot media, or devices that specifically require FAT32.

For a normal 64 GB external drive, I would format it as exFAT unless the device you plan to connect it to explicitly requires FAT32.

Local hardware Gemma-4-12b: (Is fat32 a good option for a 64gb external drive) For a 64GB external drive, ExFAT is usually a better choice than FAT32.

Here is why:

The 4GB File Limit

The biggest issue with FAT32 is that a single file cannot exceed 4GB. While a 64GB drive can easily hold many thousands of small documents and photos, modern media files (high-definition videos, disk images, or large installer files) often exceed that limit. If you try to copy a 5GB file onto a FAT32 formatted drive, the copy will fail even though the drive is mostly empty.

The Solution: ExFAT

ExFAT was designed specifically for flash memory (thumb drives, SD cards, external drives). It keeps the high compatibility that makes FAT32 popular — it still works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and PlayStation — but removes the file size ceiling, allowing files of virtually any size.

Summary Recommendation

• Use ExFAT if you might store large video files, large installers, or want the most modern standard for a drive of this size.
• Use FAT32 only if you require the highest possible compatibility with very old hardware (e.g. a DSLR camera from 15 years ago or a legacy Windows XP machine) and your files will always stay under 4GB.

At that point though cord cutting en-mass was already beginning so it wasn’t even a big draw

YouTube music is just GPM continued without the ability to upload your own library.

Interface obviously is different but they’ve done good refining it over the years where there’s nothing I really feel like I’m missing compared to GPM.

Also all the music I uploaded back ~13 years ago (damn) is still accessible in YTM

Literally just Lemmy echo chamber shit

I had the Fold 2 and Fold 4, both broke so I just went back to a Pixel 🤷

Yes, llama-swap and I use it for home assistant text-gen notifications, basic coding tasks, etc

If anyone here self-hosts definitely check out llama-swap as it has some nifty features for hotswapping LLMs, image generation models and voice models.

I don’t understand why you think it’d be out of the question for it to have phenomoligcal experiences, why couldn’t we build a way for it to smell if it has the same pathways to be able to interpret that? How would that be meaningfully different?

Think about hearing aides or other similar “enhancements” wherein were simply adjusting the input in a way and the brain is still able to process it.

I would agree it wouldn’t be the same as a literal human, thinking like Fallout 4 style synths, I consider them people (in universe of course lol) even if they’re not literally humans.

At what point to you would it move from simulation to essentially the same configuration just in a different container?

I still think you’re conflating the aspect of life we experience as somehow separate from the procedure our brain takes to present that to you.

“If you captured and simulated every neuron in the human brain, you’d be left with a feedforward process simulating a particular neural state of a particular person. No feeling, no reflection, no introspection, no semantic meaning. Just a neat toy.”

Seems to me you think there’s something special about humans, I don’t believe there’s any proof to that.

Yes its orders of magnitude more complex then a fly brain, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to simulate.

There’s no proof to a soul, our whole existence is our meat which evolved naturally over extreme timescales via random forces and natural selection, I see no reason to believe we could not do the same with our intelligence in a much shorter period of time comparatively.

I do agree Chrome was the better browser, hell I switched to it primarily after a few years because of how much faster it was.

I don’t really think that’s the case anymore though, Chrome has been enshittifying for years now, and in my experience, they’re pretty on-par, except of course I can use extensions without the impending doom spectre on Firefox and on mobile.

Always? Firefox existed before Chrome

Oh I know, it’s just what I see in every thread when some kind of outage or major bug is discovered. Half the comments are hurrdurr probably vibecoded.

A large majority definitely hate it to the point of having blinders on for sure.

On one side you have corpo hype/lies, and the other is LLM is slop garbage and terrible for anything, also developers wrote perfect code before LLMs and now everything that breaks is AI slop caused.

They’re putting copilot in everything, it’s not just github that has copilot lmfao

“They’re burning cash too fast”

Their most recent earnings was 82.9B just last quarter, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I think the reality is open source and normal people are who continuously push progress forward, how much of the internet scaffolding is literally on the backs of open source projects?

A shit load.

LLMs are no different, and I can’t agree with you that open source models are not a threat to the big players.

I’m not sure why you’re downplaying what I’m saying about extending access and lowering prices, yes of course corporations don’t do it out of the goodness of their capitalist hearts, but history shows that it does in fact reduce in cost over time, which was your initial point. “Oh must be nice for you that you can afford $20 a month and have your own homelab to self host models.”

I grew up lower middle class, my home was repossesed by the bank during the housing crisis and my parents divorced.

I moved out at 18 and joined the workforce and have managed to get a middle-class wage via my efforts and a bit of luck. I hate my job and the morons in charge but the job market is shit.

I love open source software and the ideas beyond knowledge and work should be shared with others so we can all benefit (which is unfortunately not how this capitalist system works) and yet we have Linux, we have an amazing amount of open source projects that people do simply because they want to. Those are the people we should support and the ones who freely train and fine tune open source models.

To your point about “software doesn’t become faster with time” mother fucker I remember windows 95, you’re delusional if you don’t think we’ve come an insane amount. I remember webpages taking minutes to load, interlacing vs non to help with image loading.

In the realm of LLMs, the software itself on the open source side has improved leaps and bounds in just the past 6 months on my same hardware.

I understand your negativity, it’s hard not to fall into it when the world is how it is right now and things feel like (and are) getting worse in most ways.

Phones require specialized hardware and designing, to run and produce, LLMs only require normal consumer grade hardware and the desire to learn how to make it work. Will it ever be mainstream? Based on Linux vs Windows/Mac, probably not, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless or impossible.

I’m just showing that as technology progresses and scales it generally becomes cheaper and peoples access increases, again were literally on the internet now and have phones in our pockets that can do it, whereas 40 years ago PCs were much more expensive and internet was slow as hell.

We shouldn’t trust big tech, I’m on Lemmy so that should be a bit of a given lol.

You don’t have to delegate thinking, I’m sure many people will but it’s absolutely not a requirement for using LLMs as the intended tool they are.

On the topic of price, I’m sure people were saying the same things about books (oh must be nice you can afford books), then the same about computers and the internet. They eventually became more affordable.

Not even going to touch the “I couldn’t understand economic heardship” aspect.

Its getting better all the time, its crazy how much better consumer level hardware can run competent models (even if it’s lower params) these days compared to just 6 months ago.

That’s literally not what you said, you said “LLM code can not be auditable” which is demonstrably wrong.

Go ahead and move the goal posts though.