Bluefruit

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I expected a rhyme and this a crime! This happens almost every time. The meme makes word play but doesnt finish the lines. Such is often the case for memes of felines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Personally speaking, I absolutely suck at math. It was and continues to be my worst subject. Likely to do with my adhd.

I was only able to really get up to and through basic algebra and some geometry in school. Past that, nothing else. I do fine. I'd say thats the minimum unless your in a field that requires a higher level of math.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with this. I'm using a 1070ti for image gen and it would be more than capable for handling some LLM stuff. An AMD 7700xt ive found dors well with 7B models on my main rig but im sure you could get away with somthing cheaper or less powerful.

That said, the amount of text you can genrate or the context length of its answers will depend the model you use and the larger the model, the more power it takes.

If youre just messing around with it or want it to review or answer small questions, I'd say a 1070ti like I'm using would be just fine. Some folks use even more budget friendly options. If you got a gaming machine with any semi recent GPU, I'd say go for it. Worst case, you can pay for a subscription later if you really want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh interesting. I may look into that. Thank you for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Well he's gone now but like him and my dad, I too groan often lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That gave me a good laugh, my grandfather would most definitely refer to this as a "Groaner".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wouldn't exactly fit my use case because this pc also doubles as my game in bed pc and is what I'm currently using for ai image generation. If i could get big picture mode but still run applications that arent games or for streaming, that'd be ideal. From the recommendations, seems like kodi is a fan favorite but not exactly a DE either. Might work but I'd rather it be a DE than an app i have to run but beggers cant be choosers.

That said, I have 2 chunky servers that my buddy gave me recently and I'm planning on self hosting a lot of things with them which likely include jellyfin.

I will say that im slowly getting the internet to a decent spot at least for streaming, generally as long as my connection is fast enough between starlink and my lte connection (using failover with pfsense) i can usually stream ok. Though with one tower in my area and trees surrounding my place, its never gonna be great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My desktop pc runs Fedora with Wayland currently and it works really well. I like wayland a lot and was trying to use it on my media pc as well but it wasnt playing well with Firefox for video playback. Not sure if this was fixed yet or if it was even a bug but it was not good when i tried it on kubuntu. Haven't tried it om popos yet but it might just be an issue with gnome. Ive never been a fan of gnome ever since i started messing around with linux.

Love kde plasma though, its def the best DE ive found so far. Coming from Windows and all the customization it has, its so nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mostly use this pc as a streaming box for online content like youtube or crunchyroll so not really sure kodi would fit that anyways. Will probably have jellyfin up again at some point so might use kodi for that? Idk, mot something im doing anytime soon.

Rn im using the default for PopOS and like you, scaled the ui. Its fine, but not quite right yknow? Ui scaling in Linux hasnt ever felt quite right to me especially when I'm using a tv.

I also use this pc to do other things so its not just a media PC all the time which is another reason why i was looking for a desktop environment rather than a whole new os.

Is mate pretty good for scaling well? I havent used it before but a small gripe is that the default for pop doesnt scale well when the taskbar always shows. Applications get cut off at the bottom. Pretty annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah good to know. I thought they looked interesting and very customizable which is why i though it was a legit recommendation lol.

For this pc, wayland support isn't much of a concern atm but also good to know. Appreciate the info :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Both of those look interesting. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have looked at kodi briefly, not sure if its exactly what I'm looking for but could be a viable option. Have heard a lot of good things about it of course. Appreciate the suggestion!

 

I control my media pc running Popos with a remote mouse/keyboard combo I found on Amazon and while this works pretty good, I would like a more "big picture mode" like experience that works well with using a remote.

I know theres some distros out there that are geared specifically for a media pc but I don't wanna reinstall my system. My internet is painfully slow at times and drops out frequently (yay for rural America) so even doing system updates can take a long time or just time out. I'd rather not babysit my pc to get everything working again how i want it so if I could find just a desktop environment to use that would be great. If not, such is life.

So far, Plasma bigscreen looked the most promising: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ but any recommendations would be helpful. I've tried looking some up myself but searching the web has become pretty useless for something more niche or specific like this and I figure the good people on here would have better advice anyways.

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