Had no idea Windows users had no access to Ollama, feels like only a few years ago we Mac users would have been the ones having to wait

It has worked just fine under WSL for many months now, including full GPU support, though that's not as convenient for most. Native Windows support is icing on the cake.

Indeed, WSL has surprisingly good GPU passthrough and AVX instruction support, which makes running models fast albeit the virtualization layer. WSL comes with it's own setup steps and performance considerations (not to mention quite a few folks are still using WSL 1 in their workflow), and so a lot of folks asked for a pre-built Windows version that runs natively!

I've been running Ollama in Windows WSL for some time now.

It's x86 Linux after all. Everything just works.

There’s some magic with wsl gpu drivers.

This is pretty cool.

Article goes to show that even during good times, Uber and Lyft were losing money. To me it looks more like a case of flawed unit economics.

I think it's more of a story about marketing, consumer habits, driver churn (for Uber and Lyft), and competition. Breaking into an industry is expensive.

And terrible waste and graft. Can't forget that.

Allegedly, most public tech companies that have fired staff, are largely unprofitable.

One thing that is obvious in this observation is those high growth companies who have an all time high burn rate, headcount, little revenue and once the pandemic hit the tech industry, those found in that category are hardest hit and are operating in an unsustainable fashion.