Yeah, it’s not the worst thing in the world, just makes things awkward.

I do really like the idea of flatpack, I’m 110% in on containers, probably too much. There are just compromises that ned to be made today.

Flatpack and password managers. They’ll oil and water.

do you know how insane it is their official guides don’t work with kernel point updates?

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/5824

This has been an issue for a long time.

I have to maintain a file of which specific kernel+os+firmware versions I’m on and have downgraded to just to get the most popular ML library in the world to du a matrix multiply.

I don’t get how this bug gets into production branch, let alone shipped requiring firmware downgrades, on their new line of GPUs/chips. How do they not test their latest hardware with their own firmware?

I don’t know how the immich ml works, but if you’re going LLMs stick to llama.cpp.

going beyond that, I’ve had serious kernel bugs with PyTorch and onnx that are still unresolved. The most popular ML/AI frameworks basically don’t work due to drivers for me.

Vulkan flows are fine and generally comparable in speed so far, so if there’s a vulkan option try rock first then revert to vulkan.

God after buying an amd machine last year I’m never doing it again.

What are you trying to use rocm for? Their own guides don’t work.

Why is he wearing a badge that says “infidel”?

I don’t know anything about his guy, but he looks like a professional crybaby.

Edit: oh, he wanted to also burn a Quran but didn’t go through with it. What a loser.

I have 9 backups.

After that I have to resort to crime and cryogenics.

SSH keys are so nice

I’ve got mine hooked into my password manager so it’s as easy as scanning my fingerprint to use (password manager locks on sleep and after a timeout).

That’s unfortunate.

I think Framework did a great job with this, but after owning it since August I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s actually been an incredibly frustrating experience for me from first boot.

I bought this to do self hosting and AI stuff, but currently PyTorch and ONNX do not work. AMD’s software stack is completely fucked. I don’t know if they pay kyuz0 money, but he’s the only person on this planet who seems to be able to make it do anything.

My biggest criticisms are:

• Thunderbolt display support sucks, but I think this is linux issue. I’ve hacked it to work, but it’s janky.
• As mentioned, the AMD driver stack is trash. I honestly don’t know how there isn’t a class action for false advertising. I have tried every permutation of instructions on their website, I’ve tried TheRock, it’s all just been a waste of dozens of hours.
• The HDMI port doesn’t do CEC, which by all accounts it should, but the HDMI consortium are blocking it I guess. I’d take a closed source patch at this point.

And again, absolutely none of this is Framework’s fault, I’ll never buy an AMD device again.

Does the sun actually travel in a straight line, or do the orbits of the planets wobble it, and to what extent?

Yeah, I’m aiming for self sufficiency and to reduce as much as I can.

Obviously on the internet you’re not never self sufficient, but liberating my data, owning my domain, and avoiding subscriptions is good.

I’m excited that someone is breaking Google’s monopoly on Linux browsers.

You can have any flavour of browser you want, as long as it’s a chrome reskin or funded by Google.

At least WebKit isn’t wholly funded by ads, as Mozilla/Gecko and Chrome are.

I’ve used Orion on macOS iOS and it was nice to have

Just wait until the snake evolves two heads, then there’s no stopping it

Fedora atomic is atomic though

Then why is it a flatpak?

And it was a terrible idea, but on atomic distros it’s that or adding it to the os tree.

Linux is good, the core OS has been great for a long long time (decades). It’s just the desktop environment situation that has sucked, and, of course, gaming before proton.

If you want to play games Bazzite actually does work pretty well. I went back to Fedora though and I literally spent hours trying to fix issues with just the Steam flatpak (it was overwriting my controller mappings every open). If you’re a gamer just stick with Bazzite.

I think I’m destined to for NixOS though, as my least favourite thing about linux is doing sudo fooctl enable bloopblorp and having no clear log/information about what exact state the system is in.

Yes, I just wasn’t happy with the state of my machine. It felt like there were too many parts I didn’t understand, so I wanted to clear it all out and simplify systems.

How do you use distrobox? I don’t get it yet.

I just try not to leave the shell lol.

Not too bad.

I kind of dislike the installer though (after you complete each step you have to go back to the main page to do the next one, it’s more a nitpick on the UI flow).

Getting everything working is easy though, basically just click which disk to install and add a user profile. Click install and then click restart when done.

Overall it feels modern and normal.

If you have secure boot you might have to go do something in the bios, but there are usually guides, and windows would be the same.

I’m still on-boarding to Linux, and I was on bazzite but a bunch of settings were messed up.

I migrated from docker to podman and for some reason half my flatpaks broke. Then my podman caches were insane, so my disk was filling up. And I had so e messed up settings, like sleep wasn’t working properly and would just show a black screen on resume.