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It's convenient that I can use #LLMs to help me learn how to use LLMs because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to figure it out any other way.

I want to use my local #Ollama models with #Copilot in #VSCode, but I have an #AMD #GPU so apparently I need to install something called the #ROCm (Radeon Open Compute Platform) via the Windows 11 HIP SDK?

And maybe all this doesn't work in #WSL, so I'll have to reinstall it in #Ubuntu there if I want to use it in one of those workspaces?

Anyone proficient with #WSL and #vmware based virtual machines ever figure out a way to run both in tandem? I know Vmware workstation v15.5+ should be able to run Vmware machines even with #hyperV enabled, and it can, but they are absolutely dog slow. like ... easily 5-10 times as slow as they'd otherwise be. I know I can just turn hyperV off and on or use WSL1 but toggling hyperV to my knowledge requires a reboot each time, and WSL1's filesystem IO is pretty horrendous as well. Is there no way to make these work together better? #vm #virtualMachines #homelab

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@schrotthaufen That's what I keep hearing, and sometimes it's true.

They produce good and bad just like everybody else :)

I type this on a Windows 11 install on my Dell desktop.

I mostly live in #WSL which I freaking L-O-V-E. All the joy of LInux without all the pain (for me. YMMV and clearly does!)

Sometimes I think people have a hard time actually evaluating what's CURRENTLY good and bad that MSFT is producing because they're so badly scarred by past memories of needing to debug DLL hell in the Windows 3.1/95/98 era :)

Hi @fireborn ! Is this your blogpost?

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you

If so, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I love #linux and always have. I have literally made my career with it ever since I first booted the H.J. Lu boot/root floppy set on my 486 DX2/66, but I'm partially #blind, and my vision is getting worse as I age.

And at times the amount of negativity and crap I get when I say that I generally run #WSL on Windows or a Mac? It's huge, pointless, and speaks to some ways in which parts of the Linux community are its own worst enemy.

When screen zoom broke for 2 years in #ubuntu and many of us kept signposting how important this is to us, over and over, and one of the Canonical engineers wrote in the issue saying that, due simply to the very limited number of engineering hours available, this was a low priority fix? That was a wake up call for me.

There's no malice there. It's not that anyone in the Linux community is doing an evil laugh and thrilling to the number of disabled users who can't reliably enjoy Linux on the desktop, it's about the reality that a tiny, rag tag group of engineers working for a handful of companies are doing the vast majority of the work keeping the Linux desktop world moving, and they BARELY have the bandwidth to keep development going at all much less catering to the myriad accessibility needs folks like us (Not comparing the nature of our didabilities, mind you. Everyone's different!).

But people like the guy your post responds to can make us feel not smart enough, not good enough, or not motivated enough to thrive in an environment that throws up HUGE obstacles, and that's just not right.

Pardon the length, I have Strong Feelings about this stuff as you can see, and thanks again for posting!

fireborn.mataroa.blogYou Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

On a whim, thought I'd try upgrading my #WSL #Ubuntu instance to a later release in hopes that updating from #Python 3.2 would make #Marimo actually work. do-release-upgrade actually worked pretty seamlessly, and then the new bullshit Canonical decided was a good idea reared its head. pip3 install marimo? "THIS IS AN EXTERNALLY MANAGED PYTHON, install things through packages instead!" (there is no package).

Guess it's finally time to learn how to use #archlinux