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I think you can definitely survive it as a beginner if you’re both patient and happy to learn about your OS, but most people recommend trying another distro first so you don’t have to learn everything up front all at once and that’s good advice imo. Even if you’re happy to learn everything thru the wiki and want to jump into the deep end, I’d probably recommend checking out other distros on distrosea first just so you have an idea of what’s out there and what you like/dislike.

You’ll have to read about and then make a choice for every component of your system, from the filesystem to the kernel to all your user space programs and DE, so you’ll make better choices if you’ve seen some of the options in action imo.

I should also mention I’ve heard the archinstall script trivializes installing arch so if you want an easy way in you could use that - id probably keep this in mind or better, put your arch iso on ventoy along with a second choice of distro in case you get overwhelmed and just want your computer functional again.

Good luck tho, if you choose to do it I hope you have as much fun as I did! Don’t be afraid to ask questions on whichever of the Linux communities are relevant, but definitely expect a lot of “just use mint” answers if you say you’re installing arch as a new Linux user lol.

Not the same person, but my updates take like 30s (if I don’t go looking at what changed) and happen whenever I want. We’re not talking windows updates here, just sudo pacman -Syu, seeing the list of what’s changing (etc firefox went up a version? Cool), and then saying “sure” if it looks good to me. Don’t even need to restart all the time, although I tend to do updates before turning my pc off anyway so I nearly always do.

Packages tend to use the latest stable version of their software, unless you choose a beta branch instead, so if anything I think I’ve run into less broken software than on Debian-based distros because you don’t get bugs that were fixed a week ago but haven’t made it into the official apt repository version yet. If there is a bug, you can just not upgrade that package if you know about it in advance or just downgrade it until they release a fix (I’ve never had to do this but iirc you can pin a version in pacman).

Not suggesting to jump ship if you’re happy with your current distro, but arch is a great learning experience to set up and once you have a good system running it’s absolutely rock solid. Just don’t expect to install it in fifteen minutes like other distros, if you want a good install you have to do all the reading yourself (arch wiki is priceless) to make informed choices because you’re entirely responsible for piecing together your own OS.

If you haven’t seen the umbrella academy you should watch it just to see Nathan’s actor absolutely killing it in that role, he does such an incredible job. He brings a lot of the same humour but a lot of depth and actual character development that misfits had… less of 😂

a tiny bit of dead person, sounds like

It’s really pretty, I might try this on my pc. I mostly use matrix from my phone tho, and I didn’t spot any native support for that so I can’t actually switch.

Their website and roadmap didn’t mention it, do you know if they support video calls?

What client would you consider good, then? I’ve liked element so far but I’m always happy to try something new

Matrix is a pretty drop-in replacement for discord and has encrypted video calling. The framerate on screen sharing can be kinda ass but iirc video was better, tho I don’t use it a lot so ymmv.

People would need to have matrix accounts to join your video feed but they’re easy to make and don’t require phone numbers. I’m not sure there’s any way to stop viewers from talking/showing video as well, so if those are things you want to avoid it may not be ideal, but check it out if it interests you because I might be wrong on that part.

Counterpoint: medical researchers don’t make line go up

I also really like Small Form Factor form factors

(sorry couldn’t resist)

Can you please elaborate on that second one, or drop a name so I can look into it? Sounds very counterintuitive and like something I wanna know

Wow you’re more patient than I am, if you type on your phone here a lot lmao. Thanks for the answers!

You make a good point about systemd being monolithic, and I hate to add to your replies fully ignoring it to only talk about the thorn… but I gotta admit I’m really curious how you type it.

I’m guessing you’re not using text replacement and that you’re typing it instead, but do you have it bound to a key combo, replacing a little-used character, etc? Do you use the same method on mobile, if you also use the thorn there? If you type like this everywhere, are you concerned about your distinct typing patterns making you easy to dox?

Sorry to hit you with a bunch of questions unrelated to your actual comment, I don’t have strong opinions on systemd so don’t have much to contribute there lol

I’ve given up on running ASA using a 5900x and a 10gb 3080, cuz I can barely get a stable 40fps at 4K with clouds turned off and the settings as low as I can tolerate them (including upscaling turned on). If you’re playing at a lower resolution you’ll obviously have a much better time with it than I do, but fair warning this game is just unoptimized as fuck.

My performance is entirely gpu-bound, but that’s also what you’d expect at 4K so if you run 1080p for example a 5000-series cpu would probably give you a big jump in performance. A 5950x, 5900xt, 5900x, 5800xt, etc would be a really nice upgrade from your current cpu and with a bios update your board should support them all. If you’re able to find one, a 5800x3d or 5700x3d would be ideal if this is a purely gaming pc for you, though they’re not as powerful for productivity stuff.

The only other thing I’d check out is just to see if you have vsync enabled / a framerate cap, your gpu usage being low is probably just from the cpu bottleneck but those two things can also cause it

To be clear, I wasn’t saying you’re wrong. I just like homomorphic encryption a lot and love a chance to tell people about it lmao

There are no LLMs that process encrypted tokens.

Check out homomorphic encryption! AFAIK it’s not used in any LLMs just yet but the plans are in place and it’s tantalizingly close

Hold up, tech noir… 2??? Thank you so much for introducing this to my life

So if I’m understanding you right, your crush is primarily on the person herself and/or who she wants to be and the character aspect of it is secondary? That’s kinda the opposite of what my ignorant guess would be so it’s really interesting to read. Thanks for answering!

Did you use a heavily quantized version? Those models are much smaller than the state of the art ones to begin with, and if you chop their weights from float16 to float2 or something it reduces their capabilities a lot more

Yep, the OpenAI api and/or the ollama one work for this no problem in most projects. You just give it the address and port you want to connect to, and that port can be localhost, lan, another server on another network, whatever.

If you don’t mind me asking, how does that work? I don’t know a lot about vtubers - is your crush on the character? On the vtuber themself? Do you know anything about the person behind the character or are they fully in character at all times?

No pressure to answer this if it’s too prying, tho!