This. As much as I want LibreOffice to succeed (AND I WANT LIBREOFFICE TO SUCCEED SO SIT DOWN YOU IN THE BACK), having converted actual work projects over to LibO and maintain them has been hell, to say the least.

2026 and tables and text boxes still explode the document into confetti if you look at it funny. Hours of frustratingly reconstructing documents, or reloading progress saves because moving a text box one pixel over makes things explode.

LibO needs QA and maintenance fixes, badly. If you don’t want LibO to use AI models to bug hunt, then enlist and help fix it. Development in turning LibO from a messy desk project to something actually useable efficiently has taken literal decades already.

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Exactly… the difference in energy use is like driving a Ranger vs. an F-650. Sure, the big chungus models are a lot smarter, but it’s diminishing returns on energy use to capability. Cutting out the fluff and using a much, much smaller and lighter model that is tuned for the task you are using it for is a lot more efficient, and people with macbooks or gaming computers can run a model on their computer instead of subbing to a cloud service.

Lmao they’re learning

Surely this won’t go wrong at all

This… this is the reasonable course that’s shunned by our divisive culture nowadays. I personally don’t have the time or the space, but I do have a computer, so I use what tools I have. Local models ftw

This. Yes, it’s Unlimited* on 5G, but often you have to be on UWB 5G, which you aren’t getting unless you’re in the city or in a dense urban area that has a UWB tower close by… If you’re in the sticks, you’re getting the 700mhz band 5G, which is only double the speed of 4G on the same fre, and has different bandwidth rules because it has much less bandwidth available, which is shared by everybody on that tower, and when it gets busy, there is network contention.

+5% Movement Speed

-5% Utility Cooldown

Always get Winrar when it’s available

It’s nice to get internet that isn’t awful… But other than Fiber, mobile internet always comes with that one elephant in the room… The data cap. “Here is your monthly data, sir” served in a shot glass.

Sucks to be in the sticks. Nobody wants to run internet out to you, and the only good satellite provider is … Yeah.

I mean, game modding where you put x game’s y asset in z game is 99 percent plagerism and copyright infringement to begin with, regardless of how you do it. Unless you make something wholly original, you’re technically illegal, and even then, in the USA, there’s the DMCA, where breaking, bypassing, or reverse engineering any encryption is itself illegal.

If it has Steven Hawking voice, I can hear the chaos in traffic

Yar har lmao

Explains a lot about how/why Grok leans the way it does

Virt-manager for a gui, qemu-kvm and libvirtd for the hypervisor. You will need to pass thru a graphics card, which makes it unavailable for the host machine entirely. I use debian stable for the vm, no gui, just ssh to manage it.

Ollama, Open WebUI, and Qwen, or one of the edits of it. The latest Qwen 26B is in a very good delta of smart enough to know how to help with stuff (I use it as a second opinion/initial proofread code checker) and small enough to run on a macbook or a gaming pc, and Open WebUI is the self host ChatGPT-like interface that works with Ollama, the turn key ai model runner backend. Couple that with your own searxng instance self hosted to give it the ability to search the web for answers if you want to give it that. Run it all in a virtual machine, of course.

For media content, wan2gp (wan2 for the gpu poor) has an all in one stop shop for self hosted audio, image, and video. Just beware people don’t like generated stuff in prod, but its useful for quick concepts, or to do certain types of edits of existing stuff.

There’s also tts and speech recognition via the whisper models, which sounds a lot better than the speak and spell voices from the past (unless you enjoy the degeneracy of spamming JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN in the Steven Hawking voice) and can transcribe words a lot faster (realtime) and more accurately than in the past. The best ones run via Vulkan and thus work on any card that supports Vulkan.

If you run Nextcloud, you can also connect Ollama to it to get the Nextcloud AI working.

All that R&D, and they need to squeeze efficiency out more at this stage. Faster and more specialized is better than big chingus do everything, and means we can hopefully stop spending all that money on making more datacenters.

Personally, I don’t use the big chingus models at all… I much prefer local gen if I use it for things. Much better privacy that way, and I’m not throwing money at these jokers.

Ah, yes, the month for edgy emo rock

Subaru definitely uses the same hardware, but I know their software is different. Even the PCM performs very differently on the dinosaurs, even though they use the same Denso computers as Toyotas - just look into how aggressively Subarus fast idle when cold for an example… how many cars do you know of are programmed to hit fast idle come hell or high water? Most cars will cancel fast idle if you engage a gear, or limit the fast idle throttle, but the Subaru will send it if you try to keep the RPM below fast idle when cold. Also the “clear flood start” feature that deliberately doesn’t fire the injectors when you put your foot to the floor when starting the engine.

Unfortunately, the gap between what people make, what people need to survive on ramen noodles and a closet for living in, and what people need to be able to save up for retirement, not just now, but when they are ready for retirement when inflation has vastly devalued their savings, is a very big gap. Only the most successful and lucky individuals get to retire at a reasonable age. The rest are work until they die poor. This was not true for many of the oldest generation, who had more buying power out of the money they made, but true for almost everyone that’s first entered the workforce after the 1990s is facing this problem.

The standard should be an A/B partition system, lile a lot of phones do. Flash B while booted to A, or Flash A when booted to B. If a flash fails, you can still boot the previous firmware.

Put your hands down, I know about security. The point is after the flash is successfully booted on the new firmware, it can be copied to the other partition to eliminate a regressive boot to old firmware.