Pumpkin Escobar

I’ve been tempted to ditch my current password manager and move to bitwarden. I think this is the final push I needed.

https://youtu.be/_dhrqnDS_oU?si=0aDIGNwf4dusciEJ

Similar to previous reply about MATE with font size changes, I do that with plasma. I hadn’t seen plasma big screen you linked, I’ll definitely try that one out. I’ve wondered about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_Mobile? Like these sort of niche projects don’t always get a lot of attention, if the bigscreen project doesn’t work out, I’d bet the plasma mobile project is fairly active and given the way it scales for displays might work really well on a tv

Speaking of scaling since you mentioned it. I have noticed scaling in general feels a lot better in Wayland. If you’d only tried it in X11 before, might want to see if Wayland works better for you.

I’ll preface by saying I think LLMs are useful and in the next couple years there will be some interesting new uses and existing ones getting streamlined…

But they’re just next word predictors. The best you could say about intelligence is that they have an impressive ability to encode knowledge in a pretty efficient way (the storage density, not the execution of the LLM), but there’s no logic or reasoning in their execution or interaction with them. It’s one of the reasons they’re so terrible at math.

I like the game, but agree with the over-tutorialed complaints. They have two difficulty modes, I wish only story mode got all the handholding. I think there’s enough obvious indicators to get you through all the game mechanics.

Coming from c# then typescript and nextjs, rye feels very intuitive and like a nice bridge / gateway drug into python.

Lan-mouse looks great but keep in mind that there’s no network encryption right now. There is a GitHub ticket open and the developer seems eager to add encryption. It’s just worth understanding that all your keystrokes are going across the network unencrypted.

Shoot your shot, player.

Don’t go crazy or over the top, don’t overdo it, but just say it. If they’re a good friend they won’t be scared away. If they’re like you that way you’ll both be happier.

Don’t overthink it, ask them if they’d ever like to hang out or do something more like a date.

Ballsy, direct, badass. That can be you.

Dating is awkward but life gets a lot better once you get more comfortable with it. Everyone is a dating idiot until they’re not, there’s a good chance your friend is still in the idiot stage and maybe hell be over the moon that you helped push through it.

More than distro hopping maybe try out a zen kernel or compiling kernel yourself and changing kernel config and scheduler, or a newer version of the stock kernel?

I’m not super current on what’s in each kernel but I’d expect latest mainline to handle newer processors better than some of the older stable kernels in some of the more mainstream slower releasing distros.

Ran Asahi for several months, tried it out again recently. It’s good/fine, I just don’t love fedora.

There’s some funkiness with the more complicated install, the AI acceleration doesn’t work, no thunderbolt / docking station.

MacBooks are great hardware but I don’t think they’re the best option for Linux right now. If you’re never going to boot into macOS then I’d look for x13, new Qualcomm, isn’t there a framework arm64 option now or was that a RISC module?

I’m also assuming you’re not looking to do any gaming? Because gaming on ARM is not really a thing right now and doesn’t feel like it will be for a long while.

I’m a Unity noob and even more of a noob in Godot, but the c# development experience is so much better in Godot it’s ridiculous.

I remember what was it like 6 years ago when Unity announced moving towards .net core. I can appreciate thats a large effort, but they’ve made ridiculously little progress that I can see

Respect, but…

I’ve been tempted to try and install plasma mobile on a tablet.

Why no arch install?

Also, the few points others are talking about needing others, there’s a group-finder and I’d say most people running those raids in group finder groups don’t talk at all, so you can just pretend they’re NPCs if you want.

Nah. There are some nvidia issues with wayland (that are starting to get cleared up), and nvidia’s drivers not being open-source rubs some people the wrong way, but getting nvidia and cuda up and running on linux is pretty easy/reliable in my experience.

WSL is a bit different but there are steps to get that up and running too.

Agree with others, this guide is a bit more work than you probably need. I don’t really run windows much anymore but I did have an easier time with WSL like the other poster mentioned.

And just to check, are you planning on fine-tuning a model? If so then the whole anaconda / miniconda, pytorch, etc… path makes sense.

But if you’re not fine-tuning and you just want to run a model locally, I’d suggest ollama. If you want a UI on top of it, open-webui is great.

Tons of remote jobs out there, probably a higher percentage for startup jobs. Most remote places will have people in different time zones and some sort of core hours they expect people to be in, but having some discussion you’ll probably be able to find one that’s accommodating.

One good site to start looking:

https://wellfound.com/remote

Good luck

Seems like arch gets KDE into stable within a couple days of release generally. Or there’s the kde-unstable repo that already has it