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AI seeks out racist language in property deeds for termination
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Anthropic announces New Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku and the Computer Use API
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Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux [Linux distribution ported to Apple Silicon Macs]
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Winamp deletes GitHub repository after a rocky few weeks
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The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach
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How harmful are AI’s biases on diverse student populations?
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MiniPCs, portable monitors?
Hello, it’s midnight where I am and I fell into a rabbit hole of MiniPCs and portable monitors. I work from home with the occasional max once a month summon to office. I travel a lot and I ended...
Hello, it’s midnight where I am and I fell into a rabbit hole of MiniPCs and portable monitors.
I work from home with the occasional max once a month summon to office. I travel a lot and I ended up wondering if a MiniPC like Geekom would be for me.
I currently have a ThinkPad but I have an external keyboard, mouse, monitor, speaker and webcam at home. I only ever use the actual laptop parts when I am on a train or traveling. Which is also a pity because the laptop is heavy for me.
Anyway, does anyone travel with a MiniPC / monitor combo? I would love to hear your experiences and advice and maybe some obvious and not-so-obvious pros and cons that you can share.
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GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the limitations of mathematical reasoning in large language models
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The rise of the compliant speech platform
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Donald Trump US tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
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Millions of people are using abusive AI ‘Nudify’ bots on Telegram
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Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits
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Why OpenAI is at war with an obscure idea man
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Thinking on storage
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Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
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Countering social media cybercrime using deep learning: Instagram fake accounts detection
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Switching to Linux, looking for distro recommendations
Overview When I swapped the motherboard on my computer, I lost my Windows license and Microsoft support was useless. So I am switching my desktop over to Linux. I am planning on setting up dual...
Overview
When I swapped the motherboard on my computer, I lost my Windows license and Microsoft support was useless. So I am switching my desktop over to Linux. I am planning on setting up dual boot, so that I still have Windows 10 with the watermark for certain use cases, but hoping I can run primarily Linux.
Previous Linux Experience
I have swapped an old laptop to Linux (elementaryOS) before and was able to have it do the simple tasks I required of that computer. I also have an old desktop running proxmox, with various VMs, primarily a NAS running openmediavault. Also, I took a college class on Linux system admin, which focused on various tasks on ubuntu. So overall, I am pretty familiar with Debian-based Linux and doing stuff in the terminal, but I would prefer to not have to use the terminal often.
Workload
So I use my computer for fairly normal use cases that should not be too problematic for Linux. Things I plan to do are:
- Non-competitive gaming (Minecraft, Civilization V and VI, occassionally single player FPS games)
- Video editing via DaVinci Resolve
- General web browsing
- Libre Office is what I plan to switch to from MS Office
Plans for testing
I am going to setup a VM on my hypervisor to try out the basic interface of each distro, and try basic tasks. Testing will probably not involve running the heavier applications such as DaVinci Resolve or games. However, I will look into the install process of some of these. For games, I am just going to rely on the work Steam has done for Linux gaming recently.
Things I am looking for in a distro
The things I want in a distro are:
- Debian based preferable, but am considering others
- Simple tasks can be done graphically, instead of via terminal
- Upgrade in place is preferable (I believe similar to how ubuntu now allows for upgrades to the next LTS does not require a reinstall)
- Similar UI to Windows 10 is preferable
Planned distros to test
Distros I wanted to try before posting
- popOS
- Mint
Distros I am considering testing after being recommended them:
- Arch
- Fedora (I am strongly leaning towards this one, but want to do more testing)
42 votes