I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods

I only have one monitor so I didn’t have this issue when I upgraded my GPU a few weeks ago.

Shutdown -> remove/install GPU -> startup #JustWorks

In fairness, I did have to update to the latest kernel (6.14) to get all of the features of the GPU working.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250428132538/https://www.404media.co/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fraud-is-here/

A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.

I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.

Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.

Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.

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.

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.

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8.1GB file size

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.

Ok, why does it seem like I first read a few months ago… Went it came out.

Have I been reading XKCD for 20 years… FFS

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png

Works perfectly on my Asus Zenbook.

I don’t use it much, but it works.

• sshfs (mount a remote file system locally)
• sshuttle (tunnel your traffic over SSH, ephemeral VPN)
• mirror a remote port to a local port (I use this to manage syncthing on my server)

It is the 2nd of April, the rest of the worlds (mostly) April fools day.

I used to run Ubuntu, but started liking it less and less.

After jumping around for a while, I settled on Mint. It is really nice, stable and easy to use for beginners, but everything is there for advanced users also.

What are people doing with their laptops, mine never break, except one time when I knocked a cup of water into one in 2005.

My latest one, Asus Zenbook is already 3 years old and no issues. Has a dent in the top cover where a nurse kicked my bag when I was in hospital.

My previous one, a dell Inspiron which my 9yo has had for 2 years, is 6 years old, he is not gentle.

Previous to that, I had a work supplied Alienware that lasted 7 years, I traveled internationally with that one quite a few times.

Not sure if I’m lucky, or more careful than average. But I hear about “build quality” issues a lot in internet posts. I’ve just never seen it in the wild…

Note: all ran/run various flavours of Linux.

I’m just using gadget bridge now, most of the original functionality is gone. I can’t be arsed jumping through the hoops to install the original pebble app on my phone.

I asked my partner if she wanted a new pebble, she has a nice little Garmin, her response:

I do like my Garmin in terms of a watch and the feel but the app is shit

Funny how she lost her last one:

Her strap broke on the pebble time, my (at the time) 15 month old saw it on the bench, and asked why she wasn’t wearing it. She said it is broken, a few days later she was going to get a new strap and the watch was gone. The 15 month old, had thrown it in the bin…rubbish day had already happened.

It has the screen tearing issue, which can’t be fixed because it is one of the original ones which are glued together.

I have to have it on the analogue watch face so the screen refreshes every second. But it has outlasted the 4 other watches I tried.