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OP is (presumably) vision impaired and accessibility still sucks on Linux.

Genuinely, what do you have against putting artist credit in your posts? Every single post, the credit has been cropped out or otherwise manually removed. Why? What do you gain from this?

Linux sometimes has trouble with NTFS partitions. Consider moving it to your Ubuntu partition and trying it again.

For Adobe Acrobat, well, it’s an Adobe product, and those are famously not compatible with Linux at all in any capacity. You’ll have to find something to replace it with or spin up a Windows virtual machine to run it.

For Cyberpunk, where did you get it and and what have you tried? Also, consider volunteering any other information that might be helpful (distro, hardware, etc.), I don’t think either of us wants to play 20 Questions to help you troubleshoot.

What games and what software?

What problems have you had with it? I’ve used it for several years now and honestly can’t remember a time when it fell short.

Firefox + UBO?

Use dd! It’s a tool that allows you to copy the contents of anything bit-for-bit to anywhere else. First, you’ll need to boot into a live USB of any distro. Then, after plugging in both drives, you’ll want to run something like dd if=/path/to/source/drive of=/path/to/output/drive bs=4M. You can get the paths of each drive by running lsblk, and they’ll look something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/nvme0n1. (Be very careful with dd, as whatever you put as the output drive will be irreversibly overwritten with whatever you put the input drive as.)

Honestly, for any semi-modern hardware, the different amount of “bloat” between any two distros is small enough to be irrelevent for most everything you would do on a computer up to and including gaming, especially compared against Windows. Yes, Arch may be less bloated than, say, Ubuntu, but are you really going to notice or care that your system is idling at 1.2 GB of RAM usage instead of 800 MB?

The safest would be to run it yourself, though if you don’t have some pretty beefy hardware and some time to set things up you won’t be able to get very close to the performance of any of the big-name hosted AIs on more complex things, but it might be enough for simpler stuff.

Grab LM Studio (or llama.cpp if you’re comfy with a CLI) and some models off of Huggingface if you wanna give local AI a spin.

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Just connect USB-C headphones

Not everyone happens to have a pair lying around, and this doesn’t really work for IEMs and the like.

or use a USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle.

I’ve yet to find a dongle that lasts more than around half a year of frequent use before starting to break. If you have any recommendations, that would be greatly appreciated.

I think that, while yes, LLMs are an option for data storage, I don’t think that they’re worth the effort. Sure, they might have a very wide breadth of information that would be hard to gather manually, but how can you be sure that the information you’re getting is a good replica of the source, or that the source that it was trained on was good in the first place? A piece of information could come from either 4chan or Wikipedia, and unless you had the sources yourself to confirm (in which case, why use the LLM as all), you’d have no way of telling which it came from.

Aside from that, just getting the information out of it would be a challenge, at least for the hardware of today and the near future. Running a model large enough to have a useful amount of world knowledge requires a some pretty substantial hardware if you want any amount of speed that would be useful, and with rising hardware costs, that might not be possible for most people even years from now. Even with the software, if something with your hardware goes wrong, it might be difficult to get inference engines working on newer, unsupported hardware and drivers.

So sure, maybe as an afterthought if you happen to have some extra space on your drives and oodles of spare RAM, but I doubt that it’d be worth thinking that much about.

I doubt they’re blaming the site, they just lost it and are trying to find it again.

Oh, my bad! The wording didn’t parse as humor to me.

It was a joke, friend

Daria

well, that and the fact that they’re likely selling the steam deck at a loss. if potential steam deck buyers are convinced towards a competitor instead, that’s still more money for them