Very cool, thanks for the in depth explanation.
Very cool, thanks for the in depth explanation.
ROCm
I’m curious. Say you are getting a new computer, put Debian on, want to run e.g. DeepSeek via ollama via a container (e.g. Docker or podman) and also play, how easy or difficult is it?
I know that for NVIDIA you install the (closed official) drivers, setup the container insuring you get GPU passthrough, and thanks to CUDA from the driver, you’re pretty much good to go. Is it the same for AMD? Do you “just” need to install another package or is there more tinkering involved?
Impossible to read article. All videos get blocked (privacy reasons, even while “accept all” the 1st video is private…) so I recommend checking instead the article to the research in the description as they host their own videos.
Right… well it’s about “organizing the World Knowledge” … but if for that one has to do literally anything in order to accumulate more wealth, that takes priority.
I’m genuinely concern for anybody who would still have a modicum of trust with corporations the size of Google.
Of course they’ll do anything to increase “shareholder value”, legal or not, moral or not. That’s the entire point of a corporation driven by the stock market.
Yeah I don’t think you’re addressing what I wrote, you’re mixing up my suggestion (to clarify the important part is “or”) with DistroBox then more general comments. Might be that I wrote it unclearly but anyway it wasn’t what I was saying.
FWIW I did run on old hardware with ratpoison and had a blazing fast experience, much more responsive than “top” hardware back then. So… yes IMHO it’s about the wm/de usually, the rest follows. Obviously you can’t run super demanding software, e.g. video editing, 3D modeling, etc but that’s usually rather obvious.
Why wouldn’t Debian run?
Debian is the OS, with its package manager and some applications suggested by default. You can install Debian with X, without X, with a certain window manager or another, etc. So… Debian WILL 100% run, the question rather is WHICH software should you pick that gives the best compromise between ease of use (specific to that person) AND performance (specific to that computer).
PS: to be clear, that’s the same for other distributions. There are distributions that specifically target older hardware and that in turn might facilitate the process but usually if you do check how such distributions are done, they are basically Debian (or NixOS or Alpine or whatever) with a specific package selection. It’s rare (if ever? counter-example) to have anything special that would somehow “boost” performance for hardware, especially here when it’s rather common hardware.
Sure, or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman, especially if there is a Web API available.
That being said, whatever you do, in fine it’s about trust. What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it’s more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe even when the system itself is broken regardless of how and why.
educate your family and friends on the risk of voice cloning so they don’t fall for phone scams.
Absolutely, in fact you can easily (clone your own voice, create a new email address like LGTM_butnotop@discuss.tchncs.de and attach the recording where you ask for a Netflix/Apple/whatever gift card) do it as a harmless prank just to gauge how they’ll react.
You can find my voice at https://video.benetou.fr/ and elsewhere on the Internet because I did talks are conferences.
I’m not particularly worry by it … because I expect people who are important to me (family, friends, even colleagues) to be trained enough (because it’s not about intelligence) to contact me back (as they have my number, email, etc) if anything serious were to happen.
IMHO it’s mostly a problem for basic phishing attack where somebody is rushed to provide information. As soon as the person replies “OK let me call you back” then the whole threat disappears. Well… if the hacker did manage to control your phone number or your email that’s a totally different ballgame though but I assume we’re not talking at this level.
sshd
is like the #1 reason I use termux
. Sure, one can “survive” with adb shell
but… what a pain. Setup termux
then sshd
then bring on your toolset, from nodejs
to whatever else you need. Making your Android device a “real” computer at last!
outdated
how? Maybe I don’t properly understand the difference with obsolete?
Debian… but also to clarify it’s not “old” at all. I’m using Debian on my servers, yes, but also on my desktop that use daily, to work and to play video games on, including VR. So… don’t think because it’s “old” and “stable” it means it’s outdated.
Yeay, Debian user here who also left Twitter/X for similar reasons. I was already on Mastodon and Bluesky but didn’t make a habit out of it. Leaving the bad platform entirely (and having my data archived and searchable) helped a lot.
Glad to hear they moved on!
I don’t but it’s quite mature, people have been using it as a replacement for years now.
any advice or suggestion, please do give
I haven’t build one so I can’t help as much… but I’d be honest from the start by comparing it, head-on, with alternatives (if I understood correctly) e.g. https://github.com/searxng/searxng and simultaneously, because it’s federated, make it interroperable with them.
Also a good moment to clarify that DRM sucks, but as a user, or even a consumer, you don’t have to be worry of them (at least technically) because it’s trivial to remove. For example you can use this super convenient script https://pypi.org/project/DeGourou/ to straight up download content that should in theory be “just” for you. The online public library I use, namely https://www.lirtuel.be/ does offer ePub and PDF so I was overjoy… only to realize they meant with DRM. As I had already registered and was honestly pissed at them for not disclosing it from the start I tried DeGourou and… it just worked and is very convenient (you just give it the .acsm then it downloads and remove the DRM, so you get a proper file after). So… yeah, obviously don’t buy any DRM content if you don’t have to but if somehow you must, it’s not that big a deal technically speaking.
PineNote (Pine 64) or reMarkable (Pro if you have budget, 2 or even 1 otherwise)
Both work on Linux proper, the reMarkable comes with Linux out of the box whereas PineNote comes with Android but one can install Linux on it.
They are mostly to sketch but it is also good to read. You can pretty much use whatever you want on them, including developing your own software. I don’t know if they have Calibre clients because whats I do is… just scp
my ePubs or PDFs on there.
Here are my tinkering notes on both https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Eink but feel free to ask any clarification.
PS: the Bookeen Diva also does not require any software, namely you can plug it on Linux, it gets detected as a filesystem and you can copy DRM-free content on it. It’s a totally different form factor (much smaller so IMHO not great for comics) and I don’t think there is the same open-source community as the other 2.
Well I (a developer) collaborated with an artist (3D modeler) recently and… I did not ask them to install anything.
Instead what I did is a develop a Web drag&drop page. They’d visit it, drag&drop their model and… see if it worked (e.g. visually or running animations) as they expected. That was it.
IMHO finding the boundaries that are important, and thus how to collaborate, is more important than a unique reproducible environment when roles are quite different.
TL;DR: IMHO no, you don’t, instead find how to actually collaborate.