theshatterstone54

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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Don't forget Recall, aka literal spyware, taking screenshots of your device regardless of whether you're entering passwords, making private searches, using TOR, opening sensitive documents, looking at private pictures. It's all exposed.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Great news! My only issue is that Clem and team keep on taking up more and more tasks. Of course there's maintaining both Linux Mint and LMDE, the entire Cinnamon desktop, and their own applications, but there are also all the deb programs they have to package now that Ubuntu is moving further towards snaps, and there's also the whole new Clutter framework, and the maintaining of GTK3 programs so they don't have to deal with libadwaita, and then there's the Cinnamon UI refresh, the Wayland transition, and probably some other things I can't even think of right now, and they are working on all of that.

And now they're working on the best compatibility with Framework laptops? I'm just worried that they might be taking too much work for themselves.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I second that. Even my lower-midrange laptop from 3 years ago (8GB RAM, Integrated AMD GPU) can run a few of the smaller LLMs, and it's true that you don't even need a GPU as they can run in RAM. And depending on how much RAM you have and what GPU, you might find models performing better in RAM instead of on the GPU. Just keep in mind that when a model says, for example, 8GB Memory required, if you have 8GB RAM, you can't run it cuz you also have your operating system and other applications running. If you have 8GB video memory on your GPU though, you should be golden (I think).

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 13 points 9 months ago

Right, so that was his plan all along?

Keep on promising a full self driving experience, which even now won't really happen,

and then promising an affordable Tesla,

which he can then backtrack on?

Overpromise and underdeliver.

That's the Musk motto.

Can't wait to see him fail to bring humanity to Mars, and end up trying to credit himself when NASA do it.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

I find vertical tabs to be more useful specifically when I have more tabs. Currently using vertical tabs on Vivaldi and I can see 28 and a half tabs without scrolling, which is pretty alright if you're asking me. And Workspaces are quite helpful for the same reason.

For anyone curious, I currently have 2 workspaces at 8 tabs, 1 at 20, 1 at 25 and one at 82, which comes up to 143 tabs , plus 1 more tab in the default Workspace Vivaldi creates, coming up to 144 tabs.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

IIRC, they expect to have it released in the first half of December if there are no issues or delays.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago

They're not killing X11 support, don't worry. They're just expanding to Wayland support.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

In my experience, projects going to Wayland actually improves performance and system resource usage. I got around 200Mb RAM back, when I switched from Qtile X11 to Qtile Wayland. 900Mb on XOrg, 700Mb on Wayland. These are with the same configuration and the same programs being autostarted.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

I actually don't know. I tried investigating the issue, using different users, or trying from a clean install, or without my configs. I'm not sure about the sources of my issues. I know that one of the issues I had was unrelated (Tabliss in Vivaldi), but I'm not sure if the Flatpak issues and the Steam & Lutris Gaming issues were related, but I don't seem to have those issues on PopOS. For now at least. I haven't done any gaming yet but the flatpaks seem to be okay.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Apparently running an update on Fedora. My flatpaks were broken on Fedora 40, so I thought it's a configuration issue on my part and did a clean reinstall when Fedora 41 came out. Issues were not present... until I ran an update.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 16 points 9 months ago
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I completely forgot about the Linux Upskill Challenge! I should have mentioned I've been running Linux as my desktop operating system for almost 3 years, and I've been tinkering with it quite a lot throughout so I'm quite familiar and very comfortable with the command line. I shoukd go through the Linux upskill challenge so I can fill in any knowledge gaps though. Thanks for reminding me!

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