So… I’ve done that May 2023 for a holiday trip.

I left with my RPi4 and few gadgets but no Internet.

There I built https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus/ and my main take away is

• you can build what is missing

and more importantly the meta take away is

• you need to iterate preparations

because just like first aid you need to be actually ready when needed and knowledge change over time. You need to actually try though, test your setup and yourself genuinely otherwise it is intellectual masturbation.

Have fun!

Trivial on Debian, see https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Source : been gaming nearly daily on Debian with 2080ti for years now. Sometimes also tinkering with local AI via containers.

Ah nice, I was aware of the remote ML instance option but I didn’t know it was optional, i.e. if it’s there rely on it, if not still work. I thought it was either do ML locally ALL the time or do ML remotely all the time.

Is it just an optional ML endpoint on the NAS instance pointing to the ML only container on the more powerful machine on the same LAN?

Reminds me that now that all my data is processed (in particular the heavy ML part) I should move the resulting container data to my (much less powerful but always on) NAS.

Look at corporate members at https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

There is a difference between Linux, the kernel, as a tool and free software the ideology. A lot of contributors to Linux are there for the money. They contribute resources, including money but also usually staff, without caring for abstract concepts like “freedom”, or they might even actively (arguably) work against it when they are strategically establishing walled gardens and exclusive stores.

So… I’m not saying that’s OK but I believe by confusing the ideology with the tool used for profit by gigantic corporations we are being unrealistic.

Honestly it is going to take you longer to read all answers here than try yourself!

Get an extra HD, even a slow external one if you must, put Linux on it, install Steam and some games, try, decide for yourself.

Overall yes you can work and play on Linux comfortably, I’ve been doing it for year. No you don’t need to be an expert to use Linux BUT it can be an amazing empowering moment to actually learn how a computer work BECAUSE you are free to do whatever you want with it. Just back up your data first THEN go nuts. Break stuff and learn, it’s even more fun than gaming.

Well played NSA…! Anyway :

fabien@debian2080ti:~$ df -h
Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/debian2080ti--vg-root   28G   25G  1.8G  94% /
/dev/mapper/debian2080ti--vg-home  439G  390G   27G  94% /home
/dev/sda3                          1.7T  1.6T   62G  97% /media/fabien/a77cf81e-fb2c-44a7-99a3-6ca9f15815091

/dev/nvme0n1p2                     456M  222M  210M  52% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1                     511M  5.9M  506M   2% /boot/efi
udev                                16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs                              3.2G  1.9M  3.2G   1% /run
tmpfs                               16G  168K   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                              5.0M   24K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                              3.2G  2.6M  3.2G   1% /run/user/1000

so basically NVMe for system and /home in .5T and HDD 2T for backups and rarely accessed files, ext4.

No dual boot, no Windows. No regrets.

I’m on Debian stable on my desktop but I tinkered with SteamOS on the SteamDeck, so Arch.

no more “oops I bricked my system” moments

I don’t actually know what that means. If the system because unbootable it’s because I explicitly messed it up, for example by editing fstab or tinkering with GRUB. I honestly can not remember an apt update that broke the system, and I don’t just mean my desktop (which I use daily, to work and play) but even my remote servers running for years.

So… I think that part mostly comes down to trusting the maintainer of the pinned distribution. They are doing their best to avoid dependency hell in a complex setup but typically, if you do select stable, it will actually be stable.

I do have discussions like this every few months on Lemmy and I think most people are confused about what is an OS vs. what is an application. IMHO an application CAN be unstable, e.g. Firefox or the slicer for your 3D printer because you do want the very latest feature for some reason. The underlying building blocks though, e.g. kernel, package manager, arguably drivers, basically the lower down the stack you go, the more far reaching the consequences. So if you genuinely want an unstable system somehow, go for it, but then it is by choice, explicitly, and then I find it hard to understand how one could then not accept the risk of “oops I bricked my system” moment.

Depends what you mean by “Linux” here.

It’s probably not the kernel itself, so do you mean

• a terminal e.g. a working shell where you can run commands e.g. ls | wc -l ?
• headless containers, e.g. services like Immich accessed elsewhere?
• a window manager e.g. KDE or Gnome?
• a software with a visual interface, or GUI, e.g. GCompris?

Based on that then one can answer if Termux is sufficient (or “legitimate”) or if something else is needed.

PS: You can read some of my notes on termux on different Android devices at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Android

long-awaited plans for an affordable car

You mean the 1, ONE, single, as in nothing else really matter, thing that gave any modicum of decency to Musk despite all this BS over the years and was again the very reason one could have been excited about him making Tesla so much more famous (not popular, as in… affordable) is actually not happening? Sorry, in Musk parlance, is happening next year?

shocked Pikachu face

I honestly feel disgusted because, even though I do not have a car, when Musk on ramped Tesla I was cheering for him. I do NOT think cars are the solution BUT if we have no other choice, I was naively thinking electric cars, specifically NOT fancy elitism expensive coupe or sedans, but rather affordable ones was one potential path. Meanwhile, years later, if I look by the window outside where I live, in Belgium, we do have electric plugs in the street (nice!) which are sadly used by a … fancy EV. At the same time in the city center the silent (literally) revolution have been electric bikes, especially cargo bikes and longtails. So many of those now used.

So tiring that CEOs of large company can claim vaporware constantly without any consequences. It’s damaging to entire ecosystem they overshadow. They already have economical power by their cheer scale but they also abuse the mindshare of potential customers and regulators. We need to hold them accountable to false claims, claims that are indefinitely delayed and it has to hurt the bottom line of their companies.

Another Debian suggestion here, including for gaming and even VR. It basically just works.

Looks like https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/d3m0fz/how_to_open_links_in_mpv_with_klipper/ is a good starting point, i.e

• Open menu in system tray.
• Right click on Clipboard => Configure Clipboard.
• Go to Actions Configuration => Add Action.

then… to try! :D I’m just discovering this too but seems like the right way.

That said I’d be cautious and limit the use case to only what you have, e.g. Spotify links, at least at first because I imagine one can get into hairy edge cases quickly.

Keep us posted!

The propaganda aspect is import so I’m adding this to a reply rather than yet another edit.

This research is interesting. What the article tries to do isn’t clarifying the work rather than put a nation “first”. Other nations do that too. That’s not a good thing. We should celebrate research as a better understanding of our world, both natural and engineered. We should share what has been learned and built on top of each other.

Now when a nation, being China, or the US, or any other country, is saying they are “first” and “ahead” of anybody else, it’s to bolster nationalistic pride. It’s not to educate citizens on the topic. It’s important to be able to disentangle the two regardless of the source.

That’s WHY I’m being so finicky about facts in here. It’s not that I care about the topic particularly, rather it’s about the overall political process, not the science.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify all that.

It’s not a typo because the paper itself does mention 3090 as a benchmark.

I do tinker with FPGAs at home, for the fun of if (I’m no expert but the fact that I own few already shows that I know more about the topic than most people who don’t even know what it is, or what it’s for) so I’m quite aware of what some of the benefits (and trade of) can be. It’s an interesting research path (again, otherwise I wouldn’t even have invested my own resources to learn more about that architecture in the first place) so I’m not criticizing that either.

What I’m calling BS on… is the title and the “popularization” (and propaganda, let’s be honest here) article. Qualifying a 5 years old chip as flagship (when, again, it never was) and implying what the title does, is wrong. It’s overblown otherwise interesting work. That being said, I’m not surprised, OP share this kind of things regularly, to the point that I ended up blocking him.

Edit: not sure if I really have to say so but the 4090, in March 2025, is NOT the NVIDIA flagship, that’s 1 generation behind. I’m not arguing for the quality of NVIDIA or AMD or whatever chip here. I’m again only trying to highlight the sensationalization of the article to make the title look more impressive.

Edit2: the 5090, in March 2025 again, is NOT even the flagship in this context anyway. That’s only for gamers… but here the article, again, is talking about “energy-efficient AI systems” and for that, NVIDIA has an entire array of products, from Jetson to GB200. So… sure the 3090 isn’t a “bad” card for a benchmark but in that context, it is no flagship.

PS: taking the occasion to highlight that I do wish OP to actually go to China, work and live there. If that’s their true belief and they can do so, to not solely “admire” a political system from the outside, from the perspective of not participating to it, but rather give up on their citizenship and do move to China.

Well, I honestly tried (cf history). You’re neither addressing my remark about the fact from the article nor the bigger picture. Waste of time, blocked.

Unfortunately my model isn’t supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.

Based on https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1jb2uvt/roomba_accidentally_saw_outside_and_now_i_cant/ I’d bet some models surely do.

That being said, I am NOT promoting Roomba or any other brand, I’m only highlighting that apps aren’t necessarily a requirement for the basic feature.

Finally, as others suggested if one genuinely does need such feature and is mindful about privacy, I’d check https://valetudo.cloud/ first then see what harder supports it, which sadly doesn’t seem to support Roomba or Roborock AFAICT. It does, lucky you, check https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html#roborock

Edit: apparently “Xiaomi V1 is made by Roborock” according to https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html so maybe there is way, worth investigating for you IMHO.

turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized

If that’s the point then that’s the entire GPU used for mining then ML revolution, thanks to CUDA mostly, that already happened in 2010 so that’s even older, that’d 15 yeas ago.

What I was highlighting anyway is that it’s hard to trust an article where simple facts are wrong.

What is this… “Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU”? Are we in back in 2020? Half a decade ago? Is this a joke? Even then, it wasn’t the flagship, the 3090 Ti was.

Is there a Murena/Volla of vacuuming robots? Namely can one buy a working robot (new or reconditioned) with Valetudo pre-installed?