As long as you have a strong backup strategy, I would recommend full disk encryption during installation, especially if for a laptop. Peace of mind with negligible cost on modern hardware. Even accessing the encrypted disk from a live USB takes only two extra commands compared to an unencrypted disk. As long as the LUKS header doesn’t corrupt, hence the need for good backups.

This is one of the mundane scripting tasks I would have my local LLM help with. I would still read through and make sure I understand the resulting script before running it.

Wanted to, but lacked the motivation to learn it. Was stuck on one occasion without nano, so I pulled up the vim cheat sheet on my phone.

Not going after a bug though, it’s just the way the included battery meter in Xfce (and other X11 battery indicators I’ve found) works, while things like Android track usage over time to give a better estimate.

But based on the other responses, it looks like I’ll have to cook it up myself.

As a daily LibreOffice user, I agree with you on the UI. I can’t even keep track of how many different settings menus there are and each of them are a labyrinth unto themselves. What ended up saving my sanity was setting the UI to single toolbar and purging every unnecessary button in Calc and Writer. Might be unpopular, but I then arranged the remaining toolbar features the way they do in Google Docs. For Impress, I set it to the tabbed ribbon-esque interface.

Not that I’m aware of

That is correct, IIRC, the mismatch does limit how much of it can run in dual-channel. Even if a single stick is natively 24 or 48 GB, there is additional strain on the memory controller. It is the way it is on my setup since I had planned an upgrade to a full 64 GB and was holding off until a good deal on the remaining 32 GB kit, which will never come unless the AI bubble bursts.

I think I could hack such a feature into the tray indicator as a weekend project, but wanted to see if someone already accomplished it before I go reinventing the wheel.

Xfce

What about it? I see it kicking in at least 10 GB before my RAM is full and I haven’t noticed any fundamental differences between how zram works on my 48 GB workstation and my 8 GB devices. Maybe I’ve never had a workload that filled all 48 GB + extra zram capacity, but it’s never given me an issue.

My workstation has 48 GB RAM with 50% allocation allowed to zram, no disk swapping. It works just fine. Once I use up the majority of my RAM, it kicks in the same way it would on any other system with less RAM.

Pro:

• do most of what needed two phones on a single phone
• avoids charging, carrying, and maintaining two separate phones
• I’d personally put a lot more here if dual-booting Android and Linux

Con:

• hard to find a phone that supports it
• the need to unlock bootloader could still break integrity checks despite using a stock ROM
• IMEI still shared between ROMs, most of the isolation is already achievable through user profiles
• have to reboot to use anything on the other ROM

That really stinks. Does the audio version do anything different?

16 GB VRAM GPU, models stored on SSD, rest of the computer doesn’t have to be crazy. Intel Arc is best bang for the buck at the moment. You can get LLM running on 8 GB cards or even the CPU, but IMO such small models are more novelties than workhorses. I personally use Debian but you’ll be fine as long as your distro’s repo has drivers recent enough for your GPU.

For perspective, I’m using such a build to help with boilerplate code, single-use scripts that I don’t have the patience to trial-and-error (like ones that have to deal with directory structures and special characters), getting an idea of what’s what when decompiling and reverse engineering, brainstorming tip-of-the-tongue ideas, and upscaling images.

I was so excited I could finally solve it, but unfortunately, it already was set to Latency.

I’m really happy that the schools I went to used a similar projection for all of their world map posters. I think there’s more educational value to seeing all the landmasses and countries properly scaled in size. It’s not like we’re going to navigate the world using some random Mercator projection poster torn from the wall.

Shutter times are ridiculous on mine. The preview will be perfectly focused already, but then it takes a good second to actually capture, by that time it might already have lost focus. Capture resolution aside, it’s literally faster to screenshot the preview. And got into an argument with a friend once because the shutter time made miss a shot.

I don’t have a good answer, but I wonder the same and about the technical reasons why, if some websites require such data, the browser can’t just lie and touch up rendering in post to fit whatever unique window size I have. AFAIK, uBlock already does some of its own CSS touch-up so there aren’t awkward gaps where ads once were.

Of the browsers I’ve tried out, the Cromite project goes furthest to mitigate and obfuscate the data it hands out, but in their words, it’s still not comprehensive.

Removing all the system-level bloat that makes them unpleasant to use, perhaps stripping one down to the level of a fancy MP3 player with its microSD slot. Also having “disposable” phones to play with various rooted tweaks. All of my easily-rootable phones are too valuable as daily drivers to experiment on, while all of the ones I don’t care about also don’t have rooting methods yet.

Can’t wait for one that’ll work on Android so I can maybe root some otherwise useless old phones