I really like the simplicity and formatting of stock pacman. It’s not super colorful but it’s fast and gives you all of the info you need. yay (or paru if you’re a hipster) is the icing on top.

Don’t buy a Chromebook for linux. While driver support usually isn’t an issue, the alternative keyboard layout is terrible for most applications. To even get access to all of the normal keys that many applications expect you need to configure multi-key shortcuts which varies in complexity based on your DE. In most cases it will also void your warranty because of the custom firmware requirement.

Koboldcpp should allow you to run much larger models with a little bit of ram offloading. There’s a fork that supports rocm for AMD cards: https://github.com/YellowRoseCx/koboldcpp-rocm

Make sure to use quantized models for the best performace, q4k_M being the standard.

QKSMS has less active development but I don’t think that’s an issue as it works well as is. I haven’t dug too deeply into the more advanced stuff but I’ve yet to have any issues with it.

The drive is visible to the OS so if they have any kind of management software in place which looks for hardware changes it will be noticed.

You’re never going to be banned from a store. Individual games with anticheat might however. Even then bans are pretty rare outside of games that are explicitly hostile towards Linux like destiny 2.

Just introducing them to it is probably enough. Show them different desktop environments and applications to get them used to the idea of diverse interfaces and workflows. Just knowing that alternatives exist could help them break out of the Windows monoculture later. Enable all of the cool window effects.

Dropping support after only 25 years? I can’t believe Linux is contributing to planned obsolescence.

In the case of Machine learning the term has sort of been morphed to mean “open weights” as well as open inference/training code. To me the OSI is just being elitist and gate keeping the term.

How does the licensing for this work? My understanding was that apple’s policies weren’t compatible with GPL.

From what I’ve heard they’re competitive for English but I’ve never used Deepspeech myself. Whisper has much more community support so it’s probably easier to use overall.

I’ve used the tplink ones that they’re using and they’ve been pretty solid. I can’t say how they’d fare in a 24/7 setup though since they’re not really intended for that.

Whisper is your best bet for FOSS transcription. This is the most efficient implementation AFAIK: https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper.

Not even remotely. It requires custom firmware which often requires physical disassembly to install. From there you can install any distro, but you will continue to have many small issues and inconveniences often due to the nonstandard keyboard.

There was a Chromebook targeted Linux distro called eupnea that could be installed without custom firmware via depthboot, but it’s dead now and the original repo got deleted after the Dev got hacked, so the build scripts don’t work anymore.

There are 2 ways to do it, either via depthboot(software only, no custom firmware, lots of manual OS prep, 0 risk) or custom firmware(maybe physical, model dependant, no os prep, small risk). For custom firmware you usually have to either bridge an internal jumper, unplug the battery, or build a custom cable, depending on your model.

While it is allowed it’s not supported by google.

I would never recommend buying a Chromebook with the intention of replacing the OS unless you’re looking for a project or you’re getting it for cheap.

As someone who has owned a Chromebook for several years, I can tell you that you shouldn’t. Hardware wise it’s hard to beat Chromebooks at their price points, but the complete lack of control over the system is a deal breaker. I don’t have time to list all of the issues I’ve had. In many cases what would have been trivial fixes on a normal Linux system required full reinstalls on chromeOS. Like the time I accidentally filled up the fairly modest system storage. The system refused to allow me to delete anything, requiring a reset just to get local file management abilities back.

I ultimately ended up installing full Linux on it, which ended up being a whole other ordeal due to all of Google’s “security” features.

That’s basically only OpenAI, maybe some obscure startups as well. Mozzila is far too old and niche to get away with that anyway.

The timeline wasn’t known when I made my original comment. His original response implied that they had agreed to the quote long before, though after the second GN video it was made clear that this wasn’t true.

I made my comment before the second GN video came out confirming the timeline, it seems pretty scummy.

Linus said on the forum that they had agreed to pay Billet’s quote, after the 2nd GN video it seems like this wasn’t true.

They’ve already paid what Billet requested, hopefully they also get some publicity out of this to help with the nonmonetary damages as well.

It’s clear that it wasn’t done maliciously, but there must be something seriously wrong with their processes for this to happen in the first place. The other comments they made were just adding insult to injury.

Edit: To clarify, they claimed to have accepted a quote that Billet sent them according to Linus on the forums. This ended up being a lie according to Billet.