What is this, a portable workstation for ants?

I use low memory vps systems from lists maintained by the lowendbox website but these are even smaller! What providers do you use that accommodate such tiny systems? I never really run up against the 1/2 to 1gb barrier on sub $10/y vpses so maybe I could switch to your providers and save some cash!

Good and ethical depends on what you want. You should probably abandon both of those qualifiers though.

There was a good article in one of those counter culture handbills in the 90s equating the peripheral or colonial labor required to get expensive raw materials & the core labor required to turn them into carbide blades or microchips or whatever and production & djing.

It was pretty stupid though because once a dj gets a little success or time they start to make their own songs to play out (often before they start to get some success). So it’s not like one type of labor has less value and is engaged in a race to the bottom or pushed to the colonial areas while another type of labor has more value and exists under different conditions in the core.

Their inverse is also true. Electronic musicians who produce music often get invited to dj at venues. How could someone make a song that fits well in a djs set if they themselves didn’t get some hands on time behind decks? It’s like expecting a person to be able to design a car but never drive one.

They’re the same labor. They’re making the same thing.

It’s maybe worth investigating what you mean when you say “having value”.

Infuse? Or is there a different one?

It’s not a big deal because the answer to the problem is “don’t run snaps”.

Idk

What is your desktop environment?

May I interest you in the “ln” command?

Usually if you wanna access a file (or a directory, that’s a file too!) from some place other than where it is in the filesystem you make a link using ln like “ln /mnt/target link_name”. Which would give you a link type file (that shows up as a link when you give -l to ls) called “link_name” which references “/mnt/target” when you try to do something to it (Like ls!).

Six gigabytes are plenty for even full desktop Ubuntu.

I for one welcome our new public security mailing list!

It depends on what they want. The op and title are pretty vague and general, so I offered a very easy solution that could meet their needs.

That’s exactly what I mean. It all depends on what makes a company big tech.

If it’s just having lots of money or capital then it’s really hard to divest oneself because of the phenomenal heights of industry required to make chips. Like, on some level you gotta accept that no one’s doing 14nm lithography in a shed out behind their house (people who do home lithography are in the micrometer range last I looked).

LPIC-1 my butt, op!

You can always just use an m series mac if you don’t want to support Intel or amd.

It all depends on how you define big tech.

The framework risc v board, for example, uses the StarFive JH-7110 which is manufactured by tsmc. Doesn’t get much bigger than that!

Specs for what?

The hardware you run it on will have a range of specs.

The model you try to use will have a bunch of measurements that can be called specs.

Once you pick some hardware, the measurements of the model you run on it can be adjusted for “accuracy” or speed.

Of course, the range of hardware that’s available to you informs that calculus.

The alternative to answering this post is to get a Mac mini or whatever they’re selling as a desktop llm device now and not mess around.

There are about a million ways to do what you’re asking. Which one is the right choice depends on the particular hardware you’re using and what you want to accomplish.

Yes it works good if you read first and plan and follow the instructions. If you just yeet it into your computer you will have problems.

You may end up doing a reinstall as opposed to a patch or upgrade.

You may find that dynamic wallpaper not working, needing to update with command line, photos app can’t edit and needing to use a third party browser is an okay set of tradeoffs to get to sequoia (macos 15) which still gets point updates and security patches (grimly: for now).

If I was using a 10,1 I’d back up my system and jump straight to sequoia with oclp. If you can get by long enough to save up for a more recent computer (m1+) then that’s a win. Sequoia is the last version of macos with support for Intel processors. Now is a bad time to be running old versions.

E: before oclp the linux wisdom for these models was to go in with a soldering iron or a chip clip and disable the dedicated gpu in order to avoid problems with it. Often it would break the hdmi or DisplayPort or whatever video out port was on the side of the laptop because while the integrated display could run off the intel processors gpu the video out was hardwired to the dgpu.

Your computer is MacBook Pro 10,1 and pro 15” retina mid 2012 a1398.

The relevant technologies are ivy bridge, intel hd 4000 and nvidia Kepler.

According to opencore legacy patcher, you can use Ventura (osx/macos 13)with broken live text if you go the opencore route.

That will most likely offer a better experience than linux on your hardware.

Lede: buried.

Up front you say you don’t speak Japanese and can’t draw, two things people have been doing for hundreds of years and millennia respectively. It seemed a little odd, since there’s maybe never been a time when resources to learn to speak or read a new language or draw are so universally available.

Then it’s down at the bottom: “learning … is just not something I want to do…”

That’s not a judgement of you. Everyone makes this choice all the time. It’s just an observation.

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