You don’t need to run the LLM on the device. It supports 13 different protocols for both text completion and chat completion.

There’s also RisuAI which has some nicer features like better integration with function calling. Sillytavern is working on Function calling more but it’s not quite there yet.

The nice thing about Sillytavern is that it also has plugins for Alltalk for TTS and ComfyUi/A1111 for image generation directly from the roleplay interface.

It also has support for RAG through upload of documents and web scraping and a shitload of other features it would take awhile to list here.

What do you mean by personal package manager?

What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

It depends on whether those dependencies are shared with other programs.

Somebody hit the token chain jackpot

Waiting for a 8x1B MoE

Ironically thanks in no small part to Facebook releasing Llama and kind of salting the earth for similar companies trying to create proprietary equivalents.

Nowadays you either have gigantic LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters like Claude and ChatGPT or you have open Models that are sub-200B.

What’s great about lawsuits like this is you really only have to prove intent and they have a record of them asking for similar imagery.

Easiest? Tailscale., set it up on the server and each client you want to access it and it creates auto-resolving P2P VPN tunnels between them all.

I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

Isn’t fusion power not as clean as people say it is?

The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.

I’m happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.

I2FS?

Good luck! Feel free to DM me I’d you have any questions!

You can start a different TTY than the install automatically starts. Guix has a ‘guix system init‘ command you can point to a system config and mounted filesystem, much like arch’s system init.

If you use the curses-based installer it auto-generates a system config file for you.

Note that the base configuration is entirely libre kernel so some drivers may not work (like wifi)

In order to get these working out of the box you have to make a boot iso with guix with a non-libre kernel.

The system crafters channel has a guide that details using nonguix (a non-libre kernel channel) in the installation out of the box: https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/

They can’t form new trade unions because everyone already has to join a registered trade union.

Doing a reconfigure right after a pull and half the packages don’t have substitutes yet 😭

Active GuixSD user.

Our application catalog is much smaller than many other distros simply because we don’t have the userbase large enough to surface the volunteers necessary to support it. So you will have to learn to write your own packages eventually

That said, if you know your way around functional languages (in this case, scheme), it’s probably the easiest time I’ve ever had writing a package. Everything that goes into the script is known at the time the script is written, so weird extrinsic problems don’t really occur after you’ve written the package.

Some stuff that you and the guix maintainers may not have the time to support will also get updated more slowly.

Luckily flatpak exists, and is a godsend for the new wave of read-only (functional/ostree-based) OSs.

Biggest appeal for me was having all my configuration in one place (and documented) so if I forget I did something in 6 months, it’s always staring at me in my home or system config file. You can accomplish the same thing by being diligent with say, script files, but it’s drop-dead easy to just maintain a system and home descriptor file and keep editing that.

Do image previews work over SSH? I admit I’ve never actually tried it…

I wouldn’t bother unless you find yourself doing more through the terminal than through GUIs.

I don’t have a built-in file browser (not using a DE, just i3 window manager), so I use ranger and pure GNU coreutils commands mostly but I still find myself missing the drag-and-drop features that FreeDesktop integration provides for stuff like nautilus.

The problem is that the Linux kernel is monolithic so introducing rust into it does have certain repercussions about downstream compatibility between modules.

Right now the rust code in the kernel uses c bindings for some things and there’s a not-insignificant portion of C developers who both refuse to use rust and refuse to take responsibility if the code they write breaks something in the rust bindings.

If it was pure C there would be no excuse as the standard for Linux development is that you don’t break downstream, but the current zeitgeist is that Rust being a different language means that the current C developers have no responsibility if their code refactoring now breaks the rust code.

It’s a frankly ridiculous stance to take, considering the long history of Linux being very strict on not breaking downstream code.