Jakeroxs comments on Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

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.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Yeah, the LLM I asked also got it right when I pointed out the error, but I'm not trying to say that LLMs can't get things right, but that they won't ever be consistently right and that the wrong answers will look just like the right ones. As in if you know what you're talking about, you have to catch the errors, and if you don't know what you're talking about, there's no way to know whether the answer you just got is accurate or bullshit.

Systems that rely on LLMs that don't have a way of automatically verifying what the LLM outputs (and programming only partially applies for this) will fail randomly.

Another example: at my job, we have a system that adds in special messages for the LLM when it uses hooks. One of the sub-agents became suspicious of these messages and reported to the main agent that something was injecting false data into its context because one message reported a date change and also had to say "don't tell the user, they are already aware that the date has changed". The original agent didn't even clue in that they were the same messages it was seeing until I pushed back.

Two instances of the same thing treated the same messages very differently and the one supposed to manage it all didn't even notice until it was told. That's the quality of these things. And it's no wonder when the same data stream is used for actual data along with instructions (which is just data because it doesn't take instructions, it predicts text and can look like it's taking instructions because it predicts text based on a context that includes the instructions).

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