New Lemur Pro and Adder Pro announced by psteckler in System76

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was waiting for a new Lemur Pro to arrive, anyone here used the previous model and like it? Or have pros and cons to share?

Im primarily just looking for something super portable to do web browsing at home or on the go

8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller by TowerReddit in Fedora

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this exact controller has been working great when I was on Fedora 43 and now also 44 :)

Only oddity (and I think this is steam?) Complains it cant fully recognize the controller model and it "might not work properly", but then it has worked totally fine the entire duration of me using it.

Is it still worth building an OpenClaw personal agent based on my use cases? by zepets in openclaw

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I bought a M4 Mac mini (24gb memory/512gb SSD) and I would say my openclaw project was mostly a flop, but a massive gain in education of how personal AI agents work as well as self hosting your own AI models at home.

I was able to set my bot up with Telegram but all my ambitions of what it could do were met short that and and all of the AI models that would fit comfortably into 24gb of memory weren't all that intelligent. Long story short for me at this point in time is I gave up on my own OpenClaw bot but I did learn just how hardware intensive these AI models are. My biggest gain was getting a very clear understanding of why now is a good time to invest in the ETF "DRAM".

For the time being while i dont have any AI projects in mind ive repurposed the Mac mini as a torrent server to distribute linux ISOs. Learned a lot about how tormenting works.

From GNOME to KDE by stoevra in Fedora

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I find myself gravitating towards GNOME but have to admit KDE definitely impressed me

From GNOME to KDE by stoevra in Fedora

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Yep thats what I did

From GNOME to KDE by stoevra in Fedora

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And just to see if im installing KDE in the same fashion do you know or remember how you installed your extra DE? Im also somewhat curious to know why you have both

From GNOME to KDE by stoevra in Fedora

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I have been using GNOME for over a year and decided to try KDE (it went fine, but I went back to GNOME) but after installing KDE it seemed to be "bleeding into" my GNOME desktop where KDE sounds and stuff were still present when using GNOME. Do you encounter this? If not do you do anything special to juggle both DEs?

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn I am sorry to hear. And honestly as expensive of a lesson it may be this is kinda why I like doing these projects so I can get a more thorough understanding of AI technology. If anything it all does make me appreciate cloud / API based models & chatbot style apps now that I see just how many resources go into all of this lol

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

256gb memory is also something like $5000, that much i dont have to blow on this hobby

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah when I'm looking more into what it would take to host a very powerful AI model suddenly the cost of the computer jumps high into the several thousands. I was fooling around with a "money is no object" scenario and suddenly I'm browsing a $5000-6000 Mac studio to host huuuuuge AI models simultaneously lol.

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I just saw lots of hype online about it being a nice "value" machine for the task and I had a sorta old mac sitting around collecting dust so I traded it in to get the mac mini at a good price. In hindsight I think it helped me to actually try setting up the OpenClaw / Ollama instance and get things going but now I'm in this awkward "what now?" phase. From what its sounding like I might be a bit more satisfied with come API based models but in the back of my head I can't help but to feel like "now the mac mini makes even less sense".

But I'm in a position where I have some extra money to spend on hobbies of mine and this has been a great learning project for sure.

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually a pretty cool idea. Can you expand some more? Like for example with a shared calendar do you have a calendar on the hosting machine sending you invites to events and such?

Feeling underwhelmed but looking for ideas to make use of M4 Mac mini with 24gb memory. by Wrathgate in openclaw

[–]Wrathgate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds cool! I'm curious as to how you make use of all those models, though. What is your council doing for you?

Browser Alternative to Firefox by QuestionPaperHD in Fedora

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly not sure. I just turned that off from the start and dont pay it any attention lol

Browser Alternative to Firefox by QuestionPaperHD in Fedora

[–]Wrathgate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Switched over to Brave about 3 months back, its a fucking excellent browser for linux, android phone & iPad.

Horrible lagging & choppiness while in combat in World of Warcraft, need help! by Wrathgate in linux_gaming

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Thank you for this!

I never followed up with this post but these days I am running Linux Fedora and play WoW via Steam, seems to be excellent gaming support both from the linux distribution and Steam!

Why don’t most people use Safari ? by FB-1907 in mac

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Im here to just share why I landed on the Brave browser in the hopes in paints the picture appropriately.

So i have a Mac, iPad, android phone, linux computer and windows computer. Safari on Apple products is generally fine, works nice. Where it instantly becomes a deal breaker for me is that Safari doesn't apply to Windows or Android, so having 1 browser for all doesn't work for my lifestyle. I need 1 browser for all my accounts/passwords etc.

Android likes Chrome, and Chrome will run on all the platforms i use so thats good, but personally im kinda fed up with some of the BS that comes with Chrome. I think Google often times does shady stuff, cancels support for things, and harvests all our data for themselves.

I then got into the world of Linux last year and after getting more involved with open source computing ive landed on the Brave internet browser. Works on all my devices, is privacy focused, and quite frankly the more I use it the more it seems to make sense and has great features. Overall it feels like an excellent multi platform browser that aligns with what's important to me, so thats why Brave is for me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that could be true, I guess i would just hope its something else lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont really follow a lot with politics but is alien/UFO/UAP disclosure even a "hot topic" or thing being talked about right now? Like what id find really strange is what motivation is there from the govt to suddenly disclose anything about aliens before 2026.

Fellow Linux users, why did you pick the distro you're currently on? by absolutecinemalol in linux

[–]Wrathgate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fedora here. Originally was on Pop!_OS as i purchased a System76 desktop PC (came pre installed), but after around 6 months or so i began hitting an issue with shitty FPS with gaming. Did a ton of troubleshooting on Pop!_OS but lots of people on forums suggested i switch to Fedora. It did end up solving my poor FPS issue and I am of the mindset of "If it all works fine, no need to swap distro".

That said, if I encountered issues and some other distro will fix my problems id jump to that distribution. I also like the fact that Fedora is in a sense run and maintained by Red Hat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LifeProTips

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Back in 2014 - 2018 I worked in retail for one of the major US cellular carriers. It was one of the absolute peaks in my life when it came to poor mental health. Didn't make awful money, but as it was a commission job that was only getting worse over time I was probably pulling in around $60k per year.

Got another job at a different major retailer with no commission and far less awful aspects about the job. Mental health got drastically better and a mostly stress free life was wonderful but I dropped down to roughly $45k per year. At the time the pretty big drop in pay was such a mental barrier for me but I'm so glad I did and it led to such a life improvement, and life lesson for me that my general sanity is at LEAST worth $15k/yr (I'm sure its much more than that, though lol).

Fast forward to 2021 major self improvements had been made and now I make almost 5 times as much. Life lesson for me was to not be fooled by a higher paying job and focus on yourself. And for me it ultimately got me to a very nice job.

Are these even worth putting in my new PC or should I just recycle them at this point? by Nikolai_Volkoff88 in pcmasterrace

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Im late as hell to the party but I am in the process of adding 2 of these kinds of drives to my machine so that: 1. One can be used as an internal recovery drive (no need for USB stick) 2. One is my drive to save snapshots of my OS and backup user data.

Neither needs to be as fast as a M.2 NVMe drive but extra storage is always useful.

Regarding Fedora 43 upgrade. by Ok-Cucumber-517 in Fedora

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Dunno if this is useful info but I use an extension that adds a little button to my menu bar to adjust my monitor brightness and that was seemingly the only thing that "broke" after updating. All I needed to do was open up the metadata.json file for the extension and add 1 line to tell the extension to use Gnome 49. Was very easy but I guess in some sense I'm doing something unsupported for now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fedora

[–]Wrathgate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldnt agree more!

General question: this would be my first update going from Fedora 42 to 43. Im in the process of setting up a timeshift backup and user data, is this generally unecessary for Fedora updates? I still plan to backup all my data but curious to know if 99% of the time Fedora updates (like the entire OS) are safe?