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Yes

You are most likely invoking a "hold my beer" moment.

You could have somebody waiting in the wings to pick it up when you lose interest. You would then not have to run and hide when your motivation flagged. A lot of people can't start a project easily, but can maintain and extend. Just a thought.

Anything at all. I run on raspberry pis, old lenovo laptops, new gaming laptops, amd pc with 64 gig ram and nvidia 4070ti. Make a bootable usb and test it to see if you like it without installing to the drive (live mode), then if you want to make the plunge, install.

Yup. Personally only use it for work. Linux all the way on all my machines

This is the answer! Next question is why doesn't the flatpack install do this for you?

It's a fine distribution. I have it on my desktop and at least one laptop. But yes, a weird way to decide to distro hop 🤣

If not, it should be. 🤣

You should put a link to your store somewhere. I can't seem to find it in the past.

Given the pace of oss optimisation, I fully expect the requirements for a gpt3.5 equivalent performance model to be much lower in the coming year. The biggest issues are around training or fine tuning right now. Inference is cheaper, resource wise. For truly large models, the moat is most definitely gpu compute and power constraints. Those who own their own gpu farms will be at an advantage until there is significant increase in cloud gpu capacity - right now, cloud gpu is at a premium, and can also include wait time for access. I don't expect this to change in the next year or two.

Tl;dr; moat is real, but it's gpu and power constraints.

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