Jup, in an ideal world there would be one or more computer rooms with desktop PCs running whatever fucking immutable Linux distro.

However I’m also kind of torn about books since I DO think they are important, but in practice they were always just super outdated, super politically one-sided, unreasonably heavy and so on. Some kind of middle-ground would be great with a mix of some classes using books and paper and some classes using a cheap laptop with Linux on it. But whatever’s the case, tablets are absolute fucking bullshit.

Edit: hell or just no laptops but WAY more than one computer room so you could literally have some classes exclusively in “regular” rooms and some in computer rooms, idk. JUST NOT FUCKING TABLETS.

I’d start by banning tablets, what the fuck is the point of “learning” IT stuff on a glorified 10 inch phone? Get them fucking laptops, even better with Linux, but I feel like even going BACK to Windows PCs would be an improvement at this point, sad.

Honestly, I just did everything one after the other so it’s less of a hurdle and you can dedicate yourselg to figuring out and learning about that one particular step, both from a technical and social way. I didn’t even make a list or whatever, if I then feelt comfortable, I automatically went looking for the next big decision as if it was some kind of obsession (it was).

First I literally just switched browsers to Firefox forks with uBlock and got a VPN on my phone or PC. Got used to using them which was fast, also no social issues whatsoever obviously.

Then I started to get rid of most subscribtion services like actually downloading the four albums I hear instead of paying for Spotify and reduced what I post and deleted most of what I had posted on social media. This one was also easy, not much to it.

I switched to Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC, still Windows but feels more like a Linux distro. I still needed it for university with online exams and stuff, but definitely better than other alternatives. Honestly, this step was too little, I already wanted Linux, I just couldn’t lmao. Dual boot was out of the question, I can’t do two things at once, just a me thing I guess.

When I couldn’t be as private on my PC as I wanted to, I just sold my iPhone and got a Pixel with GrapheneOS on it. That was a learning curve but I basically dedicated two entire days on it and set everything up exactly like I wanted and got everything working exactly like it should.

Now we get to the first actual socially hard step the only thing I didn’t install on the Pixel was IG. From a privacy stand point I WANTED to get rid of it waaay sooner, but I was addicted, like actually not figuretively. I made a few attempts to keep it but use it less in the past to no success. I purposely didn’t install the app since this was a new phone and clean start anyway and forced myself to only use it in the browser which were extra steps to make it less of an automated habit thing and obviously a shitty experience in itself. After a week I noticed I wasn’t actually looking forward to using it anymore, made a close friends story with an explanation and a phone number and nuked my account. That step did go smoothly and the people that mattered started writing me more on Whatsapp. I mean better than IG, but still a thorn in my eye. I would have loved nuking that one too, but in Germany this is basically the only way to communicate. Will come back to that later, dw.

With the last online exam from the uni passed, I ditched Windows for Linux the same day. Fucking finally, I was looking forward to this one. I did have a few years of experience running Linux on stuff like modified 4.1/5.1 Mac Pros, but never actually as a daily-driver so not much getting used to, I felt relieved lmao.

A few months went by and I was itching for the next thing. I always wanted to nuke Whatsapp but again, in Germany that’s next to impossible. I did however get my wife to use Signal semi-reluctantly after she complained that I sometimes don’t see her Whatsapp messages on my Pixel. After another month I decided fuck it, wrote a wall of text like this one and not angrily or condecendingly but neutrally and carefully explained the risks of this app and big tech/government surveilance and that I will be deleting Whatsapp tomorrow. Socially that step was the hardest by far. Got some shit for it but ultimately if using this spyware is more important to you than contact with me then go fuck yourself.

So yeah again, I didn’t even mean for this to run like a list, but I seemingly made the unconcious decision to takle it one problem at a time, get used to it and only then move to the next step. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, so just view it as a process.

In the end I’m super fucking happy I did it. My head is much much much clearer and productivity through the roof. I opened a small business on the side at the start of the year and this week I began working on a Linux distro. I reverse-engineered the way SteamOS makes Arch semi-reliable and improved on that, combined with the optimized kernels and for your CPU-arcitecture compiled packages. Unthinkable if you only scroll on IG on your iPhone and then work on your Windows 11 PC.

Edit: I know there are a lot of typos and weird sentence structures, I wrote this a few minutes after waking up, bear with me lmao.

PC 0

Laptop 0

Phone 2

Y’all are psychopaths

Brother, how on earth does a USB execute as a goddamn DE? I couldn’t implement that bug if I wanted to.

As long as you can work around the Broadcom module then you got yourself a good deal. Apart from that you’ll have some minor stuff here and there but not more than with your average device.

Yeah I’m gonna use that from now on, that’s hilarious.

Honestly, in that case I would buy one. But otherwise this much processing power is just absolutely unwarranted.

Gen 1 X13 currently go for 100-150 bucks, they are the best value but compiling time is gonna be pretty trash

Well I do want GrapheneOS on it so they aren’t an option. I just wonder why noone is capitalizing on a ~200 bucks GrapheneOS phone for people like me who don’t need the processing power or even lower-spec models for criminals who literally only have Signal on it. I mean which criminal organization or activist group or whatever wouldn’t buy a box full of sub 200 bucks GrapheneOS phones?

Yes, but like half the SoC power, half the RAM wouldn’t change anything about how I use the phone. It’s just not needed at fucking all, waste of money. I’d rather have even more battery life lmao

Damn I guess most of us didn’t know that, thank you for sharing.

Honestly, I’d replace this fuckass Google device in a heartbeat, but I will never in my life understand why people want flagship phones. I got a b-ware 9a for 300 bucks and even this one is way overkill for what I want in a phone. Why can’t there just be a low-spec one instead of ones that cost more than an entry class laptop?

cry

I feel like you definitely can get away with as much as even 5, but if you actually look at the CLI, it will tell you how many draft tokens actually got accepted. In some situations like writing simple text, over 90% of my two draft tokens get accepted so setting it to five would have made it faster. However if you run a task which requires heavy reasoning, even two draft tokens start approaching close to only 60%. Considering Qwen3.8-27B overthinks more than an anxious teenage girl, you should generally with two. If you take my example with the quant dropped to UD-Q5_K_XL with 262K tokens and reasoning low for a task that isn’t actually complex, just long, then go right ahead and let it run with 5.

Edit: excuse the horrendous grammar, I was distracted

I’m using this on Linux, so the first two lines won’t apply to you. Besides that, you are completely right, llama.cpp with the SYCL backend and MTP is the fastest way to run LLMs on Intel Arc GPUs, it’s just braindead people and bots on Reddit repeating the same line while they run a NVIDIA GPU and Ollama.

source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
/opt/llama.cpp-sycl/bin/llama-server \
  --model /path/to/your/model/Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q6_K_XL.gguf \
  --device SYCL0 \
  --n-gpu-layers 999 \
  --load-mode none \
  --flash-attn on \
  --jinja \
  --reasoning-preserve \
  --ctx-size 100000 \
  --cache-type-k q8_0 \
  --cache-type-v q8_0 \
  --temp 1.0 \
  --top-p 0.95 \
  --top-k 20 \
  --min-p 0.00 \
  --presence-penalty 0.0 \
  --repeat-penalty 1.0 \
  --spec-type draft-mtp \
  --spec-draft-n-max 2 \
  --port 9931

Huh, my B70 gets peaks of 37 tok/s TG and 800 tok/s PP, what are your settings?

I think there are two sides to this.

1. You are right, I’d rather just get them on Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC than goddamn ChromeOS.

2. ChromeOS will likely lower the bar for switching to a Linux distro so you might consider it a stepping stone. A stepping stone with nails and spiders coming out of it, but still a stepping stone nonetheless.

Hey guy it probably feels like magic because you’re completely overselling where we’re at in terms of this kind of technology

It feels like magic because that’s what you are selling.

Man that article gave me so many questions. First, how in over their head is the author? And second, who in their right mind would EVER want that? It’s framed as such an innovative and exciting new thing, meanwhile I’m reading this and have to wonder if these people played Cyberpunk and liked what they saw.