Politics can be really cool.

But, currently politics is very much not cool.

But what if I really like Linux

I was going to ask the same.

Those goals are not even that “out there”, but to play the devil’s advocate here for a moment.

Is it because your family know you, and you tend to flit from one “big idea” to the next, and they are worried about you putting in a lot of time and effort, to then get bored and move on to the next one. Or perhaps you have always been an outdoors kinda person, the idea of you sitting in front of a computer for hours on end, just is way out of your “normal”.

I’m not saying they are correct, but if they genuinely care about you, maybe ask why they think it is a bad idea.

In saying that, maybe they are just cunts.

There are so many variables, like an you just out of school or university, are you mid career on your 40’s and looking for a change, are you recently retired and have always held an interest…

Weird, I have 100’s of thousands of files synced.

Been using it for years.

Linux, windows and Mac in the circuit. Never a problem that wasn’t user error.

Philosophy.

Ask it to act as Socrates, pick a topic and it will help you with introspection.

This is good for examining your biases.

e.g. I want to examine the role of government employees.
e.g. when is it ok to give up on an idea?

I started on Ubuntu, tried 8.04 and went back to windows XP, tried 10.04 and stayed.

20.04 was my last Ubuntu, bounced around for a while, but I have settled on Mint. Been running it for 3 years now.

Mint isn’t too fancy, it is just there and lets me get my work done, very much the way Ubuntu used to be.

I’m running the 6.14.2 kernel, to get the latest drivers for my RX 9070, I’m playing around with local AI… Mint isn’t fancy, but you can do almost anything you want.

that is exactly what Syncthing is, my desktop to my server to my laptop to my phone…

Syncthing!

I don’t even know what to compare it to, I have been using it so long.

But not none!

I tried Deepseek Coder 33b; it runs at around 2 words/second which is really slow.

Deepseek Coder V2 16b; seems to run as fast Gemma3

I don’t know, it is running much faster than I can read.

So I’m not sure why more performance would be needed, the only thing I was looking for was big VRAM, and AMD gives much more bang for you buck (especially in NZ). To get 16GB of VRAM on an NV card in NZ would have set me back an extra $800…not something I was willing to do.

q4_k_m

8.1GB file size

This is the way.

I have ollama running locally on my RX9070, I have to use kernel 6.14 since it’s such a new GPU.

The 16G VRAM means I can run decent models, faster than I can read… currently running gemma3:12b, it’s crazy fast.

I understand that.

Because I don’t need to tie it to a visual metaphor, a lot of complex concepts, especially math, I find quite easy.

If you think that is strange, I can rotate 3D objects in my head but there are no images.

Try well aged hard cheese, most of the lactose is processed by the microbes. Naturally fermented yogurt is also low in lactose, but it needs to be thick and only 2 ingredients (milk and culture), if it is runny or has thickeners, avoid.

Good quality butter also has minimal lactose. It should basically be 100% fat.

Be careful though, it may be a dairy protein intolerance rather than lactose, usually this is more severe.

My inner monologue, is just a stream of words, it isn’t encumbered by a voice.

I was 41 when I realised…

Works perfectly on my Asus Zenbook.

I don’t use it much, but it works.