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  • Good practice is putting anything important on an encrypted USB drive (as that stuff usually isn’t very big), and just treating the machine as “kinda insecure”

    If you set up a BIOS password, someone at least needs to unscrew your computer to get stuff. But this is generally not setup because people, well, forget their passwords…








  • There are totally open efforts like IBM Granite. Not sure what is SOTA these days.

    There are some diffusion models like that too.

    Problem is there’s a performance cost, and since LLMs are so finicky and hard to run, they’re not very popular so far.

    Apache opens weights is good enough for many cases. Sometimes the training stack is open too, with only data being the morally dubious closed part.


  • 1548 RPM should be slow for a small GPU fan, no? My Nvidia 3090 behaves exactly the same, switching the fan on and off as it hovers around 60C or so.

    Looks like it’s working fine to me.

    Also, take linux GPU monitors with a grain of salt. It’s possible the GPU fan RPM measurement is totally borked, and it basically represents “on” or “off.” Check it with your eyes and ears instead, see if the fan is screaming or not. It shouldn’t be below 76C (as modern GPUs are configured to operate above 80C or so).






  • I mean, you are right, and way more people should be using openSUSE :P

    I will say Arch-derived distros are a good experience if you want to learn how the terminal and other systems work. They’re engineered to be configurable; the documentation is great. But if you just want to use your computer without opening too many hoods, it’s fundamentally not an optimal system.

    Another thing is that many people just want their new laptop to work, and for it to game on linux. Sometimes it does not just work. If you start pulling in fixes and packages that are not supported on your distro, you can screw up any distro very quickly (and this includes the AUR, unofficial Fedora repos and such). If the community packages these, stages them, tests them against all official packages, and they work out-of-the-box… that’s one less hazard.





  • Actually I had this one!

    Something about their swap config makes it very fragile unless you use RAM swap as enabled by default, and I kept having this when I disabled it for reasons. It was much better once I re enabled it, though occasionally I still have severe issues going way, way, over my RAM pool.

    I don’t mention that much because swapping to like 64GB on a 32GB system seems like an uncommon use case.


  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlCachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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    I see people saying CachyOS is finicky, but I’ve had almost no issues in two years of extensive use.

    And anything that pops up gets fixed extremely quickly.

    What’s better, everything you need for gaming is in the repos by default and pre-tweaked, no need to fuss with it like other distros. This is my nitpick with Fedora or Arch AUR: once you go outside the curated, officially supported packages, you are asking for trouble.