My point is that by the time you have the paper, in either case, there is zero reliable proof that you can do either job. Real world work experience (successfully ran a sparky business, or successfully held a job for a few years) counts far more than the paper does.

Australia. And yes, you have to do on the job training, but that doesn't mean anything. The quality of the work experience is highly variable, so you could spend all of it learning, or all of it buying coffee and sweeping floors.

I very much regret getting a 3070, with only 8GB of ram... Only reason I am hesitant about 3060s is that dual cards will use more power, and the economics are already pretty dicey when the hosted models are being sold below cost.

An electrician certification doesn't mean a whole lot either. Both are just paper. Degrees with work experience and trades with apprentership time hold a little more value, but its still hit and miss.

Full quantisation? I've only got a 8GB 3070, but I'll give it a go

Edit: Tried the unsloth/qwen3.6 with llama.CPP, and it failed to allocate a 26GB Vulcan buffer and died. Dunno what magic your using, no luck for me though :(

Little outside my budget personally, but I've definitely been itching to pull the trigger on a nVidia P40

This is for qwen 3.5, not 3.6, but the vram requirements are a little out there for most:

https://willitrunai.com/blog/qwen-3-5-27b-vram-requirements

16 to 55GB...

I'll bite, why do we need a linux alternative? And what is wrong with BSD?

a command printed the answer you need — a token

So, you typed this, and didn't stop here to consider the ramifications of storing tokens unencrypted in a central DB? Did you learn anything from the Windows Recall backlash?

And capitalism got a boner. For the insane prices for medical devices, would be nice if they actually committed to long term support. Im still completely sure that tech companies would be even worse.

Would likely end up with broken safetynet then, so not really worth the hassle. Ironically, staying on an out of date stock ROM is more preferable for my bank than staying up to date and safe...

(Its been a while since I did the 3rd party ROM thing, so I might be making some wrong assumptions. If its gotten better maybe I'll consider it)

Samsung s10+. Very out of date, but 100% functional, so I am very hesitant to just create ewaste for the sake of it.