What a timely comment.
I recently gave my kid a gaming PC for his birthday…which I used as an excuse to upgrade my GPU from a 1660 Super to a 5060ti 16GB
Combined with a 5600x3d and 32gb of system memory.
I just started messing with local LLMs yesterday. “Getting started” is rather easy. pacman -S lm-studio (I use arch, btw), launch it, download a model that your hardware supports, and start talking.
Right now I’m working on getting it to talk to vscode.
Router is a bunch of old PCs I frankensteined and put opnsense on.
Ended up i5-7500, 8gb mem, 500gb SSD.
Put in a dual-port SFP+ NIC and a dual port 2.5GbaseT nic.
One of the 2.5gb ports goes to my cable modem.
One of the 10gb ports takes Twinax to my dumb LAN switch, the other to my dumb server switch, which right now is really just my storage network…the link to the firewall isn’t doing anytuhing.
The dumb switches I have here, though, they’ve got some sort of weird MAC learning disability. It cannot handle macflaps, which I found out about because I had a hard time roaming between APs.
So I got a Netgear GS108T and put OpenWRT on it, and that switches between my APs.
My APs are Linksys MX4200v1’s. Also openwrt. Got four of them…one upstairs, two in the ground floor, one in the basement. Can get very close to 1Gbps anywhere in the house on wifi. Not the best platform for openwrt (ipq807x), as I’ve found out…but it was a hella cheap deal for tri-band AX APs.
Nah they like shooting cans.
Ya know. Mexi-cans, Domini-cans, Puerto Ri-cans?
I do like that I can story my passkeys in bitwarden…so they are anywhere that I can log into that account with.
Passkeys big bonus is that they are far more phish-resistant than pretty much any other MFA out there.
Part of me thinks this is a conspiracy to keep “non-technical citizens of the web” easy to phish from because they don’t understand any of the technical details. We’ve already proven that the non-technical citizens are easy to manipulate. This is basically just low-level social-engineering.
This is an interesting perspective. I kinda like it, even though I hate it.
It’s really amazing how many people knew that they were destroying the world…and not only continued to do so, but accelerated it and covered it all up…just to see their wallets get fatter.
Kinda just makes you want to accelerate the decline faster. “Intelligent” life my ass.
Edit to add: remember the villains in Captain Planet? They were over-the-top cartoonishly evil, even for a cartoon. But I’m starting to think they were closer to reality than I wanted to believe.
Also there were some cool as actors among those villains. Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry, Jeff Goldblum…and then the regulars like Jim Cummings and John Ratzenberger…just a cool cast)
That sounds like genocide. You must be a Republican.
They only call it that because he was scared of “big word”.
Brown kids were already on the list, tho.
Germ theory is just a theory!
I wouldn’t put it past this administration to perform a false-flag if things look dire enough.
We’re talking about an actual insurrectionist here. A treacherous person in every definition of the word.
More likely, they will take some minor protest or something, and use their propaganda network to wag-the-dog and make half the country think that the liberal cities are now effectively Mad Max (again).
There doesn’t need to be another 9/11, they just need to make enough people believe there was.
Tbf they also have a problem with anti-fascists.
Lots of court law demonstrating why we shouldn’t have literacy tests…but nobody never done said nothing about no illiteracy tests.
This is the inherit problem with democracy, or at least the American implementation of it.
If the government “goes rogue” and starts ignoring the pleas and will of the people, it can no longer be fixed within the system itself.
If the only solution is to work outside the system, then what is the point of democracy in the first place?
This is fascinating and the way you plan to weave science-fact into science-fiction reminds me a lot of Crichton.
a lot of the issues people experience on windows can be mitigated by disabling certain things or as you said “neutering” it.
Wouldn’t it be great if an operating system just worked properly out-of-the-box?
There are Arch distributions that do that better than Windows 11. What’s Microsoft’s excuse?
But…Jesus was brown…and probably gay, too.
Does it let you use apps from F-Droid (or side loaded, or otherwise not from Play Store) in android auto?
I tried using zoo with qwen3.6 and 2.5 but it failed horrendously. My card could only handle like a 16k context window with those models, and the prompt alone was like 11k.
Tried opencode and that was fast…but can’t get it to interact with system yet. More playing to do.