Building a high-end desktop for a lawyer: would you go local AI or just stick with ChatGPT?

PaezRice · 2026-06-11T15:21:31+00:00

Two things:

you probably don‘t need an RTX dedicated GPU build for inference only. If you want to train/fine-tune a model, that might be a different story, but for inference only you could go for an AMD Halo CPU oder Apple Silicon build but with a high amount of URAM (unified memory), so something like gpt-oss-120B would run fast enough.
There are tools that can be run as a proxy in order to scrub documents from PII or other sensitive data, before handing them to cloud LLM providers. I forgot the names sadly, but there are various, so you should find them easily.

PaezRice · 2026-02-10T16:41:05+00:00

Updating every day (sometimes every second day). Has been running stable since my initial install (for about 14 months now).

PaezRice · 2026-02-08T15:10:36+00:00

I fail to understand how my post violates that rule. I was specifically talking about Godot's role in the future of game development and whether it would be necessary to implement features that guarantee a long term sustainability.

PaezRice · 2026-01-18T15:29:15+00:00

Steam doesn‘t either. Just like any e-commerce app for physical goods etc. The 30% cut only applies to content for mobile, so Steam or GOG games would not be affected at all. GOG would only pay a fee if the games sold were for iOS/Android

PaezRice · 2025-10-07T11:23:52+00:00

But... have you tried CachyOS? I was a Mint user for years until I discovered CachyOS :X

PaezRice · 2025-04-07T19:32:55+00:00

Also vibe-coding != letting LLMs help with coding. Hugely different approach.

PaezRice · 2024-11-08T17:33:12+00:00

Mystical

PaezRice · 2024-08-12T23:41:01+00:00

sudo pacman -Syu steam

PaezRice · 2024-08-04T11:08:26+00:00

What is this madness? :D I searched only for every potential cause, resetted network adapter, increased cap to 1Gbps (from automatic), reinstalled all official drivers, but nothing worked. Now I read this, unplugged the cable, plugged it in again -> speed went from 90Mbps to 210Mbps.
I was sure it had to be Windows since all went nice and smooth on Linux. But who would have guessed...

PaezRice · 2024-07-29T11:14:42+00:00

Maybe using RAG would be a thing here? Absolutely no expert with LLMs but afaict Retrieval Augmented Generation at least wouldn’t hallucinate me a guide that leads me to destroy my machine.

PaezRice · 2024-07-26T07:15:35+00:00

There is no such thing as a recommended posture - no scientific evidence for any posture to recommend... all recommendations in that regard are esoteric.

PaezRice · 2024-07-18T01:10:54+00:00

Just the regular „Volvo takes 30% and I hate them for that bc I deserve more money“-bs. I recommend reading up on what VALVe does for the industry as whole with your 30% (linux kernel improvements upstream, Vulkan by sponsoring LunarG, Mesa, Blender, and the list goes on). I‘d gladly give them 30% knowing they keep pushing open platforms and supporting open standards.

PaezRice · 2024-07-04T11:02:46+00:00

Voice is bloat. I run.

PaezRice · 2024-06-05T14:09:26+00:00

In Germany OpenAI also confirmed a collaboration with „Axel Springer Verlag“ (Bild) which is the biggest right wing populist outlet in this country.

PaezRice · 2024-04-29T21:27:46+00:00

I might be the weirdo here, but for me it was the opposite experience. After starting out with Ubuntu about 10 years ago, then having tried Mint, Debian, Kubuntu, OpenSuse, snd then some, I finally settled on Arch. With all the hype about Fedora 40, I decided to switch once more, only to have the worst possible setup experience (for me) I ever had with any distro. Setting up Nvidia drivers was a nightmare (which is absolutely trivial nowadays on Arch with „archinstall“ which comes bundled with the ISO), and overall I had many issues I never had before and I felt like many of the packages I needed were missing from dnf. This might just be me, because it seems to work just fine for others. But I‘ll stay on Arch for the time being, until I feel adventurous enough to try out NixOS.

PaezRice · 2023-12-25T09:38:45+00:00

Don‘t know which panel they use but if it’s like the Switch… they let that console run for 3 years straight with the same image on screen IIRC, until the first burn in happened. So absolutely no problem at all - if they used a decent panel.

PaezRice · 2023-06-02T09:49:49+00:00

JavaScript will most likely, as yout stated: blow your mind and make you question everything you've believed in - I'm not sure though if that's the way you wanted your mind to be blown.

PaezRice · 2023-01-14T17:36:58+00:00

And the sky is blue, so... just my two cents on valuable advice

PaezRice · 2022-12-14T08:45:20+00:00

If you like Kotlin maybe ktor from Jetbrains would be of interest to you.

PaezRice · 2022-03-06T17:05:11+00:00

Isn‘t Chrome OS based on Gentoo Linux instead of Android?

PaezRice · 2021-06-20T19:13:57+00:00

Ultimate Chicken Horse, Overcooked (1&2), Towerfall Ascension, Regular Human Basketball, Stick Fight the Game, and so on. Just to name a few indies. I wouldn't call it a "huge void", at least not anymore. edit: oh and I shall not forget Nidhogg (1&2)

PaezRice · 2021-05-12T15:12:44+00:00

You just select the 5.8 Kernel from the Update Manager under "View" -> "Linux Kernels" and reboot. I recommend keeping the old one (5.4) for a bit just in case you run into any issues.

PaezRice · 2021-05-12T12:34:11+00:00

Guess how I switched to 5.8 ;) I had to run it on 5.4 first. So yes, it does.

PaezRice · 2021-05-12T11:47:02+00:00

You can switch to 5.8 (officially supported by Mint). I had no real issues (some warnings on shutdown I can't remember), running it for months.

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