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  • I’m a week into using GrapheneOS and its been great. It is a little restrictive in that I seem to have to explicitly allow apps to run and apps like my Bank app or Spotify don’t work.

    However, most apps are just Web Apps at this point and I’ve noticed very little difference in the use of the app versus the pinned browser version.

    I’m also trying to curb a phone addiction so Graphene + Lemmy + Mastodon + Jellyfin is all I’m using on this thing.

    I assume google headphones would cease to work if I degoogle the device

    I’m using my Pixel Buds. They work just as well. Remember, its just a Bluetooth device just without all the QOL stuff like voice control.

    I recommend trying it. Graphene OS install also has instruction ions to revert if you change your mind. And it’s pretty easy. Maybe a touch harder than installing Linux generally, but if your dailying Debian, you’re fine.



  • Fully agree. I tried to make the SC work and wrote off a lot of it as “I’m just not used to it”, but it really is asking a lot. In its defence, it was a first run product. The fact that it’s still ass usable and as weird is impressive enough to me. But it’s better as a piece of gaming history than a good product. It was just a good try.

    I also agree with the Steam deck controls being actually good. I want the SC2 that’s just a steam deck without the screen or computer.

    So I guess the opposite of the steam brick.

    I’d gladly pay $100 to have a steam deck like control scheme for my desktop. Rechargeable batteries and a Linux first design would be awesome. I don’t mind just using cables all the time, but I would like better wireless options for Linux gamepads (though to be fair, I haven’t tried connecting a wireless controller to a Linux box in 5 years).





  • For simply productivity like Copilot or Text Gen like ChatGPT.

    It absolutely is doable on a local GPU.

    Source: I do it.

    Sure I can’t do auto running simulations to find new drugs and protein sequencing or whatever. But it helps me code. It helps me digest software manuals. That’s honestly all I want

    Also, massive compute projects for the @home project are good?

    Local LLMs runs fine on a 5 year old GPU, a 3060 12 gig. I am getting performance on par with cloud ran models. I’m upgrading to a 5060ti just because I wanted to play with image Gen.




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    Which is funny since that does solve a lot of the problems.

    If it’s completely open source at least.

    Like OS data sets and model that can be ran locally means it’s not trained on stolen data and it’s not spying on people for more data.

    And if it runs locally on a GPU, it’s no worse for the environment than gaming. Really the big problem with the data center compute is the infrastructure of getting that data around.