I went with quantized Gemma

Well, was it quantized in a way that iphone 16 supports?

Often it’s the quantization where things break down, and the hardware needs to support the quantization, can’t run FP16 on int8 hardware… And sometimes the act of quantization can cause problems too.

And yeah, LLMs are likely going to be very hit or miss anyway.

We believe the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.

Um. Hmm. Pretty sure that didn’t work and those in politics are raising armies and not doing peaceful pursuits…

Also a lot of the stuff about willing buyer and seller assumes that the buyer has options, I don’t think from the perspective of real people that everyone has that many options, so they end up with loans or other things which are not good, just to be able to afford vehicles to get to work or a place to live.

So a lot if this seems written by a rich person who has always been able to buy everything they needed and more, not someone who is having to go take loans or go into debt just to be able to get to work.

Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.

Let me introduce you to bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/

I don’t yet use it, but I read a few of the blogs. Very RSS feed reader friendly and it’s simple without excess crap.

Prusa slicer, orcaslicer, I’ve used both on Linux, runs native.

Prusa slicer was in the repos, orca slicer I had to download the app image.

Also openscad, freecad, also work for 3d modeling and should be in your distro’s repositories.

I started using Linux in addition to Windows years ago, but I switched full-time because I found that Linux actually runs faster on the same machine hardware, and if you have a stable distro it actually breaks things less often.

I’ve had windows go to do it’s update, and sit on the update screen for ages, never seeming to finish. No process bar, nothing, just that stupid screen saying “we’re doing updating, thanks for waiting” or whatever (cycling through several messages without saying what it’s doing, is it stuck?) I would have to hard reset my windows machine when it did that.

And windows has so much stuff running in the background, either pre installed things running or who knows what services. I didn’t use edge or IE but they would still be running there in the background in task manager.

Not to mention the other issues like having to go find software I wanted to download, hunting for a real, valid, non-virus link to download, then run an installer, and click click click through the installer. Oh it needs some version of Microsoft visual C++ runtime that it didn’t include automatically? Good luck finding the right vcredist to install to make it work, you’re on your own.

Linux has none of that nonsense.

You want to update? You either click the button or type the command, put in your password, it gives you a list of exactly what it’s going to update. You confirm yes and it goes and giving you a progress bar and tells you what it’s doing each step of the way. No guessing if it’s stuck or broken. If it does break, it gives you an error message you can actually Google for a result for.

You want to install new software? For most of what I’ve wanted, I can just go to the distro’s software repository and download things directly from a trusted source. The builds are signed and verified so I can trust they’re real and not a virus rather than having to go searching online. All dependencies are also automatically installed with the correct versions to make everything just work.

And there are no installers, you click the buttons to install and what you want installs with no extra stupid menus or anything, if you want to install 10 things in one go you can.

Also there are standard paths for everything, you can pretty much Google “Linux how to” and you’ll get sane results for most distro’s.

And games run faster on Linux with less overhead from background things competing, there’s no background update crap kicking in to nuke your game performance. I’ve been running steam and the free epic games stuff on Linux full-time and Linux only for probably 5 years and I’ve had minimal issues, VR also works. Sure there may be some setup involved but there are many guides and instructions out there, and it mostly amounts to installing things and maybe a little bit of configuration.

Which, on Windows you still often need to install things to get stuff to work anyways, so really the argument that windows “just works” has worn a little thin with me. I’d believe you if you told me that a Mac just works, I’ve not used one.

I’ve used Windows for decades, I know that “just works” is a lie. It works no better than Linux imo, and depending on distro, some Linux just works better than Windows.

From my decade of Linux I would suggest: Debian or Ubuntu for a rock solid stable distro. Probably go Ubuntu since you’ll find way more help easily Googleable, but snap causes some difficulties.

Garuda is my current Arch based distro, so far no breakage after about 2 years of use, great for gaming. Would not recommend arch based for your first foray, I ran archlinux itself for about 6 years but it would break from time to time (fixable, but still not beginner friendly.)

The problem is the AI tool you’re using is making your comments longer than necessary while still saying little to nothing.

Shorter content is faster to both write and read. Using AI to fluff up your comments just makes it seem like you’re out of touch with how using it makes you sound, and trying to feel like you didn’t waste all your money paying for an AI model.

It’s also not concise at all, extra words with no purpose make it less clear and don’t make it any more helpful.

Just say what you prompted it with.

I never set up the actual bank sync, I think what I did was basically a CSV export and then import, rather than the bank sync.

But it’s been about a year so not remembering exactly how the import was.

I use actual as well.

The docker compose works really well, basically set it up once and then it works, even with running updates by pulling new container versions.

I used the account importing to start but now input everything manually and don’t do live sync.

Never heard of the other options so didn’t know about them to compare before setting up actual. I do like the methodology of actual, where it has you only budget money that actually exists in your account, that feels very sane to me.

For what it’s worth I was able to migrate my docker of gitea to a docker of forgejo by just changing the image to be forgejo and remaining some if the environment variables. It uses the game data and database so it’s basically a drop in replacement that they have instructions for on their website.

Makes trying it out pretty simple, not sure about migrating back to gitea from forgejo though.

Only flaw is that they’re drinking Modelo and not Busch, the brand that makes beer in camo cans. 10/10 no notes.

Worse than that, the issue the article states isn’t that it’s a flat pack, it’s that fedora is pushing their rebuilt flat pack of obs that’s buggy instead of the official obs one from flat hub that works, and then the obs project is getting bug reports for a third party distribution that’s broken.

Because fedora isn’t just pushing flat packs, they’re pushing made by fedora versions of them instead of the official builds from the maintainers.

Just switch to visual mode and select the text and yank it.

Press v where you want to start the selection from (switches to visual mode), hjkl (or arrow keys) to move the cursor to the end, then you can yank it from there. It’ll highlight what you’re selecting just like you’re using your mouse, but you’re using the keyboard.

If you want to get really fancy there are 3 different kinds of visual mode, but lower case is the most often one that I use because it’s char by char, V is line by line, Ctrl+v is “block” (you can select chunks across several lines omitting things at the beginning or end of lines).

Ctrl+V to do the block mode is nice if you need to edit the same part of several lines that all line up vertically, you just Ctrl+v, jk to select the lines, then I (shift+i) to insert on all those lines (if you’re in vim you can delete things in insert mode also, if you’re in vi you’ll need to delete first then insert)

Agree, also confused because Debian seemed to get security updates rather frequently when I’ve used it.

That’s like their whole thing, stable and security updates. I would be curious if there are examples of exploits that weren’t patched quickly on Debian stable.

Emoji are defined as part of Unicode, so they can be encoded alongside other text:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

Just install the DE you want on the distro you want… You aren’t limited in your DE by your selected distro, and you can have multiple installed. most of the time you have a drop down when you login that lets you pick your DE.

I think white roads could be a problem with snow, usually the only good way to find the road in a snowstorm is to look for the darkness, no darkness and you can’t tell the road from the ground covered in snow.