https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV8H8HVD with linux mint installed.

Same. I’m running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-IQ4_XS.gguf) via the turboquant fork of llama.cpp with a few tweaked memory settings, and I get like 40 tokens / second – nothing that required special insight on my part just following the instructions I saw on a youtube video I found via !LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works and asking claude to help me through the installation.

AI has no economic moat. There’s nothing stopping anyone from running LLMs locally.

Depends on who you’re abusing / pissing-off. Can’t imagine it’s good for your health to have large numbers of people angry at you.

To be fair, linear algebra is a bitch.

As much as I hate the idea of exposing kids to the ideologies and mass propaganda of the internet, I hate the idea of incompetent adults even more. Plus, exposure builds resistance to some extent. How are they gonna learn to think for themselves if they haven’t seen a wide range of views? Also, do you want your child to fail out of college the first time they play a video game? Or only start learning to code in their twenties? if ever since they won’t think of a computer that way.

No way, if I was gonna have a brat, the little bastard would be damn competent at everything.

Windows to Mint, Apple to Ubuntu

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I study proteins and I chatter on about them, but once in a rare while I’ll talk to a normal person and they’ll say “like, the food group” or in introductions I’ll say I’m a structural biologist and some people look at me blankly then say something about “bone structure”. It kills me a little inside.

Apologies, I think we are talking past each other. I think I misunderstood your initial comment. It read like a suggestion that lemmy’s more extreme communities were terroristic and a criticism of the first amendment, which suggested that you believe the government should be allowed to dictate what kind of speech is or isn’t acceptable – in particular on these little platforms. My comment was in response to that notion.

Re-reading it with your second comment, I think you’re saying that “terrorist ideologies” have been allowed to develop on conventional social-media by claiming first amendment protections in order to not moderate communities, and 2016 was not in reference to early lemmy but to the MAGA movement. That makes more sense, and I generally agree that conventional social-media follows irresponsible stewardship practices.

Turning to authorities to suppress fascism doesn’t seem practical. We need to cultivate good democratic systems and education systems that create citizens capable of thinking critically and turning down bad ideologies on their own. Citizens should be empowered, not coddled.

FOSS dominates by sheer persistence growing slowly as everything else burns bright and extinguishes until it’s the best remaining option.

It’s the slow way, but it’s the right way.

Subscription bugging.

I really like my unihertz Atom phone. It’s definitely not for everyone, but it’s small and damn near indestructible. Thinking of trying to install linux on it.

During Covid I ordered a little screen replacement kit from a cheap Chinese company, and they said it was delayed due to Covid, so I was trying to be patient, but then the company disappeared. Unfortunately, I was too patient and the six months went by so I couldn’t reverse the charge. Only time I’ve ever gotten scammed, and I was pissed because I had even looked them up before I ordered and they seemed to have decent reviews until after and everyone was calling them out. I don’t know if they were legit then collapsed during covid or they put a lot of effort into looking legit with fake reviews. Lesson learned I guess.

Replaced my samsung phone with a unihertz Atom – Definitely not for everyone, but I love it. With samsung I’d gone from my phones never breaking to two phones that seemed to jump out of my hands and crack if you looked at them funny, so I gave up on the brand and looked for something small and rugged. I swear I could chuck the Atom off a building into concrete and it’d be fine. I do wish there was a newer version to update the software, but you get used to the older interface pretty quick. Hopefully Unihertz will go back to the atom series and make one with linux software, but I was thinking of just buying another and seeing if I can install linux.

Skyrim is terrible in 3D. I can barely hack and slash normally, and I’m supposed to do it while disoriented and facing the wrong direction. Even with my coward play style of sneaky mage with uncapped runes, it’s too much of a pain to do anything other than stare up at the sky.

I’m getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.

getting to wander around utility tunnels is always fun,

I used to do this at my university. Once I saw a maintenance guy tell his friend “watch this” and walk up to me and ask if he could help me get somewhere under the clear assumption that I was lost. I was just like “no, I’m exploring” with that kinda childish stupidity that prevents people from yelling at you. He didn’t know how to respond and just said “Oh, okay” then walked back to his friend and muttered “I didn’t expect that”. Apparently I wasn’t anywhere that was technically off limits just someplace people didn’t generally go.

Fair enough, but in that case your argument seems in favor of staying with established systems even when central figures in those systems are corrupt. It’s hard not to sympathize with the impulse to separate from systems with prominent corruption, but perhaps there is an argument to be made about the need to tolerate some level of corruption for sake of social structure.