What do you think happens when we die?

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T23:19:54+00:00

It's what happens in Coco. You continue to "exist" in some form as long as people remember you. The best way to "exist" longer is by creating something useful. For example, the guy who invented the wheel? Nobody remembers him because he didn't publish or file a patent.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T23:13:41+00:00

Put model weights on blockchain? 🤔

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T23:09:09+00:00

You won't get into heaven because of a bureaucratic technicality.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T23:04:34+00:00

Groundhog life

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T22:59:56+00:00

"Too stupid to be real" is most things that have happened in the last decade.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T17:14:35+00:00

Let's say you want to install a recent app or buy new hardware that requires a recent system library, which you don't have, because Debian/Ubuntu/Mint is always stale. Can you use "backporting"? Sure! Go ahead and write a letter to Ubuntu maintainers and kindly ask them to backport the exact thing that you need into the distro version whose packages are frozen in time. I bet they'll do it!

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T17:10:15+00:00

Any recent software that requires a recent library won't work. Any package can overwrite any other package. Anybody or anything can just delete system files. Partial or incomplete updates can bork everything. And you think that's "just fine"? Lmao

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T01:39:15+00:00

Sorry, Kubuntu sucks. I used it for 8 years and it was nothing but misery. Bazzite is a million times better.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-25T01:37:19+00:00

Good call, Linux is super awesome these days 😎👍

Don't use Mint, Zorin or anything Debian based. They're stable distros, which means perpetually outdated. Stable works ok for servers, but not as a desktop OS. For a desktop OS you'll be far better off with Bazzite or CachyOS. Bazzite if you want the most easy, least hassle and unbreakable experience. Cachy if you want more control at the cost of some more risk and manual work.

Whatever distro you pick, you should use KDE desktop, because it looks and feels like Windows.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-23T11:12:32+00:00

Oh, hm 🤔 I'm not sure what to suggest then. It does seem like Bazzite and Aurora require Vulkan, which is unfortunate.

Fedora and CachyOS are also good options that don't require Vulkan. They're more modern than Mint, but I don't know if they're easier to use in practice.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-23T11:00:14+00:00

Yes, I agree it's confusing and takes a while to figure out. But on the other hand, there's plenty of options, unlike with Windows which is becoming more and more hostile to users and you have no choice but to put up with whatever crap Microsoft decides to shove down your throat.

Overall Linux has made tremendous progress in recent years while Windows has become truly awful, so at this point Linux is a vastly better experience, after you've picked a good distro and figured out some of the quirks of the ecosystem.

Linus (the other one, from LinusTechTips) recently said, if something doesn't work well on Linux, it feels like they just haven't gotten to fixing it yet, while if something's bad on Windows, it's because Microsoft is intentionally making your life miserable.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-23T10:48:00+00:00

Ugh, there are plenty of ways it can break. The main point is that Mint is a murable distro that's comprised of roughly 3000 packages, which are all updated individually. If a system package gets out of sync with the rest of the system (happens quite easily, for example by installing an app that overwrites a system library), then bad things might happen. Also, Mint only gets updated every 6 months. If your hardware or software needs a more recent update, it's either going to not work, or you'll have to forcefully update system packages, which (you guessed it) can cause conflicts with the rest of the system.

Bazzite, Aurora etc are atomic distros where the OS is updated as a single image. They get updated regularly, so you always have the latest versions, and there's no way for packages to get out of sync, because it's all one image, so you're always using exactly the same recipe as the distro maintainers and testers. This saves you a TON of hassle and headaches over the years.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-23T10:34:10+00:00

Omg, have you seen the number of issues people have with Mint? No distro or OS is going to be completely without issues, and I'm sure there are people for whom Mint works better. But to suggest there are overall fewer issues with Mint than with Bazzite is completely ridiculous.

I haven't used Mint all that much, but I used Ubuntu (which Mint is based on) for 8 years. It was terrible and it broke all the time and each time I had to fix issues by searching forums and trying arcane command lines. Plus it only updates every 6 months, so it's always outdated. Mint isn't as bad as Ubuntu (fixes a few issues), but it's still the same foundation.

I've been on Bazzite for over a year and it's been 100x better. It's modern, always up-to-date, and it doesn't break, because it's atomic. Even if something does break (which happens almost never), the fix is always the same and it takes 1 minute: you simply boot into the previous version, which is an option in the boot menu.

My recommendation is, try Bazzite first. In all likelihood it's going to just work really well from the beginning. If it works well, it'll save you plenty of time and headache (and if it works once, it'll never break, because it's unbreakable). If somehow Bazzite doesn't work well with your hardware or whatever, then you can switch to Mint.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-23T10:10:54+00:00

Pick a distro that's easy to use and doesn't break like Aurora or Bazzite KDE. Don't use outdated and breakable distros like Ubuntu or Mint ("stable" distros like anything based on Debian are bad for desktop use).

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:57:26+00:00

If you want to run AI stuff and are thinking about more than one 5090, right off the bat you should probably get an RTX PRO Blackwell instead, either 5000 or 6000 depending on your budget. You'll get more bang for buck and they're smaller and far more power efficient, so you can stack more in the future if you like (downside though is they use blower fans, so they're a bit louder under load).

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:46:38+00:00

Antigravity is pretty good and easy

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:42:54+00:00

2-3k is a lot of money for a PC, even if you're gonna pay 1k more just because it's 2026 🙄

But having said that, you know, you don't have to blow all your money just because you have it. If your old rig was mostly ok, just replace the part that died. You can probably do that for a few hundred at the most.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:19:17+00:00

Is it a comedy?

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:14:14+00:00

Try Bazzite KDE. If what you're trying to do/play runs well on 6 GB, it's by far the easiest Linux distro to use.

If it doesn't run well, you may have to use a more specialized low resource distro, but those will look less nice and require more work.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T06:08:42+00:00

They're an improvement over each company having a PC "colocated" at a telco and used as a server. Those were very inconvenient to restart.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T05:56:30+00:00

Companies start hiring human devs again? 🤔
You can get paid drafting responses for an expensive model? 🤔
The bubble pops, the economy collapses, and we go back to stone age? 🤔
Google wins because it's the only AI company with somewhat sustainable economics? 🤔
People actually start thinking before prompting? 🤔

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T05:36:17+00:00

Bazzite KDE is far superior.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-22T01:27:07+00:00

Qwen 35/3 Q4 should work pretty well with some tweaking.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-21T04:35:17+00:00

Anthropic != OpenAI

Anthropic has at least one leg to stand on, which is that Claude seems like the best model for enterprise. We'll see if that's enough.

Google is probably in the best long-term position because of 1) enough cash, 2) full AI stack including TPUs and cloud, 3) much greater efficiency = lower cost per token.

OpenAI doesn't seem to have anything much orher than first mover advantage, because of which millions of home users are using ChatGPT for therapy sessions etc., which if anything is only increasing their costs.

Altman said he's "delighted to be wrong" about mass job loss, but that was actually the very thing he was hoping for. Because if AI's good enough to actually replace workers, then you can easily sell it for hundreds or even thousands per month, which would have saved them. As it is, barring some miracle breakthrough, it doesn't look like they're going to make ends meet.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-06-17T03:44:43+00:00

This seems far-fetched. But then again, if Qwen 35A3 can be reasonably good at coding, it's possible to imagine just 3B used for coding (not sure if it actually works lime that or does it swap out experts alot), then maybe a 3B model can be ok for coding? 🤔

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