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Re:Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:17PM (#44936454)
Late to the party but just read your article and I share a lot of the struggle you said. I don't know if I can fix that by just going back to Arch. I've tried, with different levels of success, a mix between Arch and Nix, but that adds another issue of inter-compatibility of system packages between Arch and Nix which often it's a no-go.

The thing I enjoy the most on NixOS is the ability to make something, then remove it if I don't need it and don't have to worry about config files that are in an unknown-to-me path. But then there is the stateful aspect of the programs I used that I have to keep track of...

Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:37AM (#41500637)
How can such a simple code change fixes such a big vulnerability?
There is probably use for go-skynet/LocalAI[0] or lm-sys/FastChat[1] which can emulate an OpenAI API using local models.

0: https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI 1: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/

Edit: idk if any of this support function calling tho

Re:Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:11AM (#35400039)
Maybe using Nix it's a better experience for creating such an environment where you depending also on system utilities.
Re:The AI Bubble of 2023 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:06AM (#34790302)
It's not just a play. It's business. There are so many people to invest on either Google or Microsoft, if more people wants to invest on Microsoft, some will do it at the expense of Google shares.