Linux tips (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (12 children)

people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation

Modern day internet techies will snear at you for using AI assist tools when setting up an environment. But by god, do these agents not save me endless hours of trying to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls of system configuration.

RTFM only works when the documentation is high quality and easy to follow. Better yet, if you know the manual so well, just link me to the damned chapter I'm supposed to focus in on. I'm trying to set up an *arr stack, not become a sysadmin team lead at a Fortune 500 company.

Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

In fairness, a lot of those config files were relatively easy to write. I'll take that over hunting through forty different nearly-identical screens in a custom configured BIOS.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    You can search the ancient scrolls for an eternity or consult the all knowing shoggoth that may melt your brain or lie.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Listen, I'm not saying Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h. But I get it.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    K'yarnak li llll kadishtu, ngnah ah'lw'nafh Iiahe azathoth?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I've been using a local Qwen3.8 model as a NixOS sysadmin lately for a non-critical VPS. So far, it has been working surprisingly well! I guess it's easier for AI agents to gather context when the whole system and apps are defined in code, and immutable when applied.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I've been wanting to do this, even as a testbed. I just want computers to do cool shit, and am getting tired of being a Linux sysadmin in my free time. How large of a model do you have assigned to this?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Just Qwen3.8-27B. That little model is surprisingly smart.

    NixOS also gives you the ability to roll back to previous config versions. I have not needed to do that (yet), but it reduces some risk.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    β€œJust” and a 27B model don’t exactly belong in the same sentence if you ask my wallet. πŸ’Έ

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeahhh sorry πŸ˜•

    I was fortunate to have bought my graphics card almost a year ago, and for a nice discount (a Black Friday sale, IIRC). I'd love to buy another, but they now cost >2x the price I paid.

    FWIW, you can probably run it on CPU if you have enough RAM. I assume it will be really slow though.

    Might also be worth trying Qwen3.6 35B-A3B. It's not as "smart" as Qwen3.8 27B, but can be much faster on limited resources.

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