rant

A user argues that building a nice PC, especially in ITX form factor, is no longer affordable due to data center demand driving up RAM prices, responding to a suggestion that a Steam Machine at $1,349 competes with building a PC.

A discussion about parsing XML EXIF data from AVIF files, including a technical rant on the topic.

A tech enthusiast argues that only two local AI models (Qwen 3.6 35b a3b and Qwen 3.6 27b) are worth running, dismissing smaller models and recommending heavy quantization of larger models.

A developer rants about the poor design of custom attributes in .NET at the binary metadata level, explaining their storage and why they cause problems.