A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.
I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.
Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.
Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.
That’s how I found out also.
Politics can be really cool.
But, currently politics is very much not cool.
But what if I really like Linux
Fine take my upvote…
I was going to ask the same.
Those goals are not even that “out there”, but to play the devil’s advocate here for a moment.
Is it because your family know you, and you tend to flit from one “big idea” to the next, and they are worried about you putting in a lot of time and effort, to then get bored and move on to the next one. Or perhaps you have always been an outdoors kinda person, the idea of you sitting in front of a computer for hours on end, just is way out of your “normal”.
I’m not saying they are correct, but if they genuinely care about you, maybe ask why they think it is a bad idea.
In saying that, maybe they are just cunts.
There are so many variables, like an you just out of school or university, are you mid career on your 40’s and looking for a change, are you recently retired and have always held an interest…
I think the centimoochi is my new favourite measure.
1 cmooch (pronounced ‘smooch’)=0.11 days/2.64hrs/9504s
3 days = 0.273 Scaramuccis or 0.068 Trusses
The republican adminstration really is at the forefront of these new units of measure.
Philosophy.
Ask it to act as Socrates, pick a topic and it will help you with introspection.
This is good for examining your biases.
e.g. I want to examine the role of government employees.
e.g. when is it ok to give up on an idea?
I started on Ubuntu, tried 8.04 and went back to windows XP, tried 10.04 and stayed.
20.04 was my last Ubuntu, bounced around for a while, but I have settled on Mint. Been running it for 3 years now.
Mint isn’t too fancy, it is just there and lets me get my work done, very much the way Ubuntu used to be.
I’m running the 6.14.2 kernel, to get the latest drivers for my RX 9070, I’m playing around with local AI… Mint isn’t fancy, but you can do almost anything you want.
Na, peas and gravy is great.
You are cooking them too long.
They are edible raw, so you only need to heat them through to go with your hot meal. They should still be firm and sweet when cooked.
Literally 2 min in boiling water, 3 if from frozen.
But not none!
I tried Deepseek Coder 33b; it runs at around 2 words/second which is really slow.
Deepseek Coder V2 16b; seems to run as fast Gemma3
I don’t know, it is running much faster than I can read.
So I’m not sure why more performance would be needed, the only thing I was looking for was big VRAM, and AMD gives much more bang for you buck (especially in NZ). To get 16GB of VRAM on an NV card in NZ would have set me back an extra $800…not something I was willing to do.
This is the way.
I have ollama running locally on my RX9070, I have to use kernel 6.14 since it’s such a new GPU.
The 16G VRAM means I can run decent models, faster than I can read… currently running gemma3:12b, it’s crazy fast.
Tell me you are not in New Zealand, without telling me you are not in New Zealand.