Posts by Andy 68 116 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2010
> fast
so, are you saying that it is just speed?
"Big" and "fast" are of course relative, and what is small and slow now used to big and fast, and you you can bet that today's big and fast will be tomorrow's small and slow.
I run a 2b model, not particularly fast. The difference in cost is orders of magnitude
This is what I don't get - why don't people run these locally?
Is it just speed?
Or is it just a desire to run the latest shiny ones which are likely to be too big for anything local that's not properly specced?
In all the miles and miles of internet real estate given over to discussion of the pros and cons of this or that model, I see people talking about the cost of tokens. I run gpt-oss 2b (or whatever the correct term is) locally, on my windows box under ollama. It's not super duper fast and I admit I don't use it constantly or very much in-depth. But if I grow tired of the speed of it, I'd much rather buy a better GPU, maybe even multiple ones, than pay thousands to any of the online slop-flingers.
Can someone enlighten me please?
> One size does not fit all.
Yeah, absolutely - I'm not saying it does.. But no laptop in the 3 or 4 companies I've worked for in the last 20+ years will have had more than one actual human user account set up - obviously there are admin accounts and service accounts etc. .
That's tens of thousands of laptops, and the vast majority of them are not linux. Windows and Mac have the same structure. (At least I know Windows does. Not 100% sure about Mac)
>This may come as a surprise but laptop distros need to cater for more than just your way of doing things.
You're missing my point. I'm not saying "My way is right and you've all got it wrong". I'm saying it could do with a re-think. Operating system use has changed in the last decades.
> I don't want it running out of my own home directory.
Your home directory which is where everything, by default, saves your Documents. In - in /home/doctorsyntax/Documents, which, if you're following the corporate security standards I've seen, is encrypted to the user login. So you have to save your presentation somewhere else. What I'm suggesting would actually help you.
I think the very concept of a home directory is one that needs a good re-think. Along the same lines as Hisham says in one of the later links, and what Liam alludes to, I think there's so much less of a need for it any more.
No-one else is going to use my laptop. In the 20+ years since I first used Fedora in a work environment to now, with Mint, no-one else has ever used my laptop(s) - in some places it can be a sacking offence. IMHO the only need for a home area is to store things like ssh keys. Things like .m2 directories with GBs of "stuff", applications that store temp and configuration files and downloaded extras should be in a more general Apps or Data area.
The same problem as windows c:\Users
It sounds like Gobo might be the first step towards this.
Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; AI plays tedious games for you, thus saving you the bother of playing them yourself
The UK site has the 9315 with the option to have Ubuntu pre-installed - is that the same as "certified" ?
This comment brought to by a 9310 running Mint perfectly. It used to have Ubuntu on it, but it refused to upgrade to 20.04 (or maybe 22.04... I forget), Snap kept annoying the *** out of me, and Liam's previous articles persuaded me to take the jump. I love it to bits.
I don't think Dell do the Developer version for the UK - at least I've never been able to find it. The 9320 seems to go by the name XPS 13 Plus over here, and it does look horrific ( https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops/xps-13-plus/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop )
What I think you and pretty much all the commentards above are missing, is that we all are no longer the target audience.
We have two post-18 teenagers in the house, and they absolutely do want the bigger screen and faster processors for gaming and watching TikTok. They do want better cameras for selfies to be uploaded straight to IG/TikTok. They want data plans that will let them stream spotify to them constantly wherever they are.
They don't use SMS, email or the telephone - ever.
And they're going to be around for a lot longer than most of us.
I know this is not the thrust of TFA, but isn't this the logical conclusion of Gerrit?
I've only worked at one place that used it, but all I could see was a bureaucratic sludge on top of git.
It _looked_ like something designed to empower PHBs/control freaks/God coders to engage in the development process.
Genuine question - it could be either the implementation I saw, or my inability to see its strengths....
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