De Lancre

Yep, even Valve themselves told multiple times “it’'s just a computer”, hence the price that comparable to other prebuild computers. Who in their mind would pay 3x of that?

That being said, Alienware and Razor audience also exists, so anything possible.

Yes, but your win XP doesn’t have ms-access integration with policy control and constant antivirus background checks, is it? Clearly inferior OS then. /s

The only reason I had to move in VM everything, that was perfectly working on my local machine with arch — security’s-team decision that all workers should have that ms plug in their ass. And surprise-surprise, guess where it doesn’t work oob? On top of that, they proposed solution if you don’t want to (can’t) connect it to your windows/macos machine — use azure remote desktop. Which also doesn’t work on linux despite using regular RDP — it specifically uses complicated token auth, that is not supported in any rdp linux software. Neat, eh? Honestly, if there were any better paying job (or any decent job at all) I would jump at first call.

“works on my machine”

It doesn’t, it updates package if you agreed to update. It looks like you misunderstand what I said. I meant that any update can bring issues, it’s not “I installed and it works forever”

and then its like clockwork

My brother in Christ, what are you talking about? Do you not install any software whatsoever? Do you not have a need to update it? Or maybe all your hardware works out of the box 100% of time? My setup full amd, pretty fresh (am5 + rdna3), but it still a gamble each time I’m launching new game on steam. Will it work out of the box? Will proton-cachyos just bork itself (happened week ago, still not sure what caused it, maybe mangohud)? Will my whole desktop just crash cause of bug in driver that specific to one extension in vulkan? Or maybe I simply won’t be able to see my desktop at all cause amd with LG tv is a bad combination? It’s a shitshow.

Run linux on it with windows VM, if your memory hungry software supported. Unironically pretty good duo.

I had to bump my virtual machine (with win11) for work up to 32gb, simply cause single firefox browser + slack was running out of 24gb after full day of work. Which consists out of opening google office suit like gmail\gsheet and web apps with some internal tools. What a cool world we living in.

Any software can be fixed, it just that amount of effort needed for that would be insane in case of windows, so at this point it’s easier to use ostrich algorithm

Hell mac os works well at 8.

I’m certified apple hater and “all linux” user, but in all fairness - MacOS does amazing job with ram managing. Caching, swap control and i\o priority scheduling made way better than on any linux distro.

Same, toyed with it for creating stupid things like bot for telegram, that basically was a 3rd-person NSFW storyteller in RP chat. Sadly, after I made said bot I remember that I don’t have friends to RP with.

That being said, ollama+openwebui kinda sucks: openwebui have “wider scope” and features that you don’t need like auth via social providers and managing multiple accounts, while ollama itself does the opposite and lacks certain features (like proper mmap support to load big models), slow in comparison to pure llama.cpp and generally easily replaceable with lm studio, that provides both - client and server. So yeah, my advise for anyone who want to try it localy - just use lm manager.

You don’t need 170+ GB of VRAM. Whole model can be run at around 1 token/second on a modern hardware from an ssd. Which is slow, don’t get me wrong, but it still somewhat useable.

Upd.Once again, for those who use AI because struggles to read: it is slow, but it is usable. Which is, by definition, means that you don’t need 170+ GB of VRAM to run this model. Period. It runs from ssd. That is a fact.

Well, of course it won’t work as a router — it’s a teapot.

Is this the first time AUR has been compromised to this degree?

I do believe so, yes. There was couple of cases in last year, but never to this extend. If I understand correctly, reading arch thread, it something to do with the fact that anyone can “adopt” orphaned package on AUR. Which is kinda wild.

I meant, I like your joke at the end, but it’s not how it works. There literally no audience as for now, that willing to use lemmy in general. Some even moved back to reddit. Promote to whom exactly?

inertia, nothing else

Sounds like a copium in this context, considering that reddit still very active, while lemmy slowly dying

I wanted to post my photo in a dress on lemmy’s r/femboy alternative. Searched: one of the instance blocked, second one have 8 months gap between posts (basically dead). There whooping 2.5 users on lemmy, who are interested in femboys and I’m one of them.

While most people agree with you on paper - no one wanna switch, cause there no real alternative. Similar with google, youtube, windows, nvidia and all other IT monopolistic crap.