I’d do CachyOS. It’s a very new GPU. They even have packages specifically optimized for that CPU, and fixing stuff (other than simply rolling back) isn’t such a pain.

But I’m biased, as I like CachyOS.

Fedora if he’s not gaming.

Bazzite if he’s gaming. Or CachyOS.

I’ll give you the secret to easy linux: stick with defaults! Stick with distros aimed at whatever you’re tying to do, and you get a whole army of very experienced developers preconfiguring it all for you, for free. Instead of having to maintain breakage youself.

For example, do you want to learn all about debugging AMD drivers? Do you want to get into the intricacies of performant Proton setups, and environment variables, and kernels stuff?

You could just not, and get all that prepackaged!

Here’s just a sampling of some pre-configured stuff in my distro:

cachyos/protonplus 0.5.14-1
    A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME
cachyos/protontricks 1.13.1-1
    Run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features
cachyos/protonup-qt 2.14.0-1
    Install and manage Proton-GE and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris
cachyos/umu-launcher 1.3.0-2
    This is the Unified Launcher for Windows Games on Linux, to run Proton with fixes outside of Steam
cachyos/vkd3d-proton-mingw-git 3.0.r0.g6d97b022-1
    Fork of VKD3D. Development branches for Protons Direct3D 12 implementation

cachyos-znver4/mesa-git 26.0.0_devel.216300.02cfc61cc93-1
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification, git version

Do I know a thing about how Proton works? Nope. Do I know anything about maintaining an upstream AMD driver for some kind of bug fix? Absolutely not. And I don’t have to! It’s just there, in sync with the rest of my system through some maintainer’s magic.

Mmmmm. Pure “prompt engineering” feels soulless to me. And you have zero control over the endpoint, so changes on their end can break your prompt at any time.

Messing with logprobs and raw completion syntax was fun, but the US proprietary models took that away. Even sampling is kind of restricted now, and primitive compared to what’s been developed in open source.

If you think of LLMs as an extra teammate, there’s no fun in managing them either. Nurturing the personal growth of an LLM is an obvious waste of time. Micromanaging them, watching to preempt slop and derailment, is frustrating and rage-inducing.

Finetuning LLMs for niche tasks is fun. It’s explorative, creative, cumulitive, and scratches a ‘must optimize’ part of my brain. It feels like you’re actually building and personalizing something, and teaches you how they work and where they fail, like making any good program or tool. It feels you’re part of a niche ‘old internet’ hacking community, not in the maw of Big Tech.

Using proprietary LLMs over APIs is indeed soul crushing. IMO this is why devs who have to use LLMs should strive to run finetunable, open weights models where they work, even if they aren’t as good as Claude Code.

But I think most don’t know they exist. Or had a terrible experience with terrible ollama defaults, hence assume that must be what the open model ecosystem is like.

Ah yeah Fedora does not support Nvidia. But third party repos should have a dkms version of the driver you should install instead.

On distros that do support Nvidia, the Nvidia driver is always paired to the kernel they provide, updating together.

Otherwise you literally do have to rebuild it every time. That’s what dkms automates, heh.

Heh. Sounds like you basically invented dkms?

If your distro doesn’t ship Nvidia drivers in sync with (and built against) your kernel, you’re supposed to install dkms versions that rebuild the driver automatically after every kernel/driver update. Not that this is obvious or anything, it took me a while to figure it out.

What distro are you using?

Yes, you dodged a bullet for sure, and the 7800 should age well.

That being said, I think the RTX 2060 is new enough to have fewer Linux issues, and simply having DLSS means it would have aged quite well too.

A 1 gram rock would be “almost nuclear,” yeah, but not planet killing, and most micrometeoroids/cosmic dust is fortunately much smaller than that.

The void drives in OA are a bit crazy in that they’re almost like little pocket dimensions: sub microscopic, maneuverable, “bigger on the inside” like a Tardis, and requiring further nested void bubbles to enter/exit them without destabilizing. They’re more like something Q would use in their civil war. The description may sound closest to ST’s “ship inside warp bubbles,” but mechanically the displacment/halo drives are closer and their attempt at “more physically consistent” ST warp drives, while void ships are at the absolute edge of what’s possibly plausible in physics, assuming all engineering issues go away.

A giant ship at 1/4c is still quite high, yes… it’s also at the point where, under normal physics, you’d have to worry about things like the exhaust plume vaporizing whatever’s behind it.

Alcubierre drive

Exactly! This is what OA is using, albiet a modified version that doesn’t violate causality like the original Albecurie. See the original link and: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-faq&topic=FTL+in+OA

Star Trek engines are something between displacement and halo drives, though with the bubble technically being “internal” and the ship following all relatavistic limitations:

A warp bubble is a region of space time enclosed in a fold, or bubble, of highly curved space. By expanding the space time metric behind the bubble and contracting the metric in front, the bubble can be made to move without the use of propellant mass. The vessel can apparently be coupled to the warp bubble(s) in various ways; by containing the bubbles wholly within the ship, as in the Displacement Drive; in front of the ship, coupled by gravity and/or magnetism, as in the Halo Drive; or entirely enclosing the ship, as in the Void Drive.

Note that no warp bubble has ever been observed traveling at super-luminal speeds. It is thought that such faster-than-light travel is impossible with void bubbles, because of dynamical instability of the warp metric at speeds greater than light and a suspected high flux of Hawking radiation that would turn anything inside a faster-than-light void bubble into a plasma of fundamental particles.

In the Displacement drive configuration, void bubble based drive nodes, operating in either the Alcubierre or Natario configuration, are enclosed within one or more magnetic containment vessels aboard the ship. The drive nodes are magnetically linked to the vessel within the containment volumes and react against it as they move, effectively pushing or pulling the ship across space with no ejection of reaction mass.

Only wormholes are “FTL,” with the catch that they have to be created and transported very carefully with respect to their light horizons (lest a configuration creates closed timelike curves and makes them explode)

ST doesn’t seem to respect relatively anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter, heh. The physics are different.

For the curious, OA has a pretty extensive, physically plausible theoretical writeups on warp bubbles:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/493f29cc472f0

They’re the STL kind, but still, they do seem to require power.

AFIAIK the impulse drives are sub relativistic in Star Trek, right? Or maybe they aren’t, but that seems.

I meant “Linux User Groups” and “volunteer project.”

That’s a sort of perplexing way of saying there are free operating systems with good online support. And paid operating systems with paid support, if that’s what you prefer.

The above is using a lot of technical jargon that might be misleading.

You can get plenty of support for linux just fine. Including here on lemmy. Plenty of computer repair people should know how to do it, you honestly you’re better just talking to people on the internet instead of taking your whole computer to a repair shop. In other words… you’re kinda going in with the wrong mindset.

You can, indeed, pay for support for some linux operating systems. It will be over the internet though.

You don’t really need a computer repair person for a Framework. It’s designed to be trivially repairable: if something breaks, buy the part from their website, unplug it, and change it yourself.

If your operating system breaks, here’s what you do:

• Put anything important on a USB drive. You should always do this anyway.

• Hit “refresh my PC” in Windows. This will reinstall Windows for you.

I’m not directly answering your question because it’s kind of unanswerable. We have no idea if there are local “computer repair people” that can work on Linux (which is what you are talking about); only you would know that based on phoning up people around you where you live. Ask them “do you guys fix Linux stuff?”

You can install Linux yourself easily, and get a system that’s basically not going to get a virus on it anyway. You can even do it and keep windows: it’s not either/or.

How fast is the current?

Is there a flow threshold where he does start moving, and is that threshold relativistic?

Bromite is fantastic if you’re on Android. Anything tangential to that is cut out, and you can add custom lists like you can with the uBlock extension.

I almost want to block this community because it’s just too close to home.

So then I almost starred this.

Turns out I have 19 pages of Lemmy bookmarks in the browser, just from a year. On top of bookmarks scattered across many browsers.

I haven’t looked through them once.

…Shut up. Covers ears.

The right ring hate for climate change is truly remarkable, and spread to my family in recent years.

I honestly don’t get it. Ignoring it is one thing, but viewing it as an actively malicious, hysterical “belief” that should be mocked? Like, if they’re watching a nature documentary and it’s brought up (cause, you know, they’re literally conservationists filming this stuff in real time; how could they not bring it up?), they make these crude, mocking jokes about it.

And I’m talking about doctors and other science believing, educated professionals.

It’s… weird.

And it’s getting worse.

https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext