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New comment by aruggirello in "Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts"

aruggirello — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:15:26 +0000

I tried it with Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B UD-IQ3_XXS on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16Gb - the convert step succeeded, but upon loading the converted model I encountered:

    Model load deferred: 'Qwen3_5Config' object has no attribute 'vocab_size'

My transformers version is up to date, and using AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() should not raise this exception - what's going on here?

New comment by aruggirello in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

aruggirello — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:12:44 +0000

Thanks! I'm... unimpressed.

New comment by aruggirello in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

aruggirello — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:01:54 +0000

Minisforum, Gmktec also have Ryzen AI HX 370 mini PCs with 128Gb (2x64Gb) max LPDDR5. It's dirt cheap, you can get one barebone with ~€750 on Amazon (the 395 similarly retails for ~€1k)... It should be fully supported in Ubuntu 25.04 or 25.10 with ROCm for iGPU inference (NPU isn't available ATM AFAIK), which is what I'd use it for. But I just don't know how the HX 370 compares to eg. the 395, iGPU-wise. I was thinking of getting one to run Lemonade, Qwen3-coder-next FP8, BTW... but I don't know how much RAM should I equip it with - shouldn't 96Gb be enough? Suggestions welcome!

New comment by aruggirello in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

aruggirello — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:34:38 +0000

Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)

New comment by aruggirello in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

aruggirello — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:20:56 +0000

> That is curated search done right.

Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected

New comment by aruggirello in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

aruggirello — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:46:13 +0000

Not much? Google would still have cloud services (which unlike Azure adoption depending on Windows/Office, only basically depend on the Internet), Gemini and Google Drive paid subscriptions, their flagship Pixel line...

New comment by aruggirello in "What has Docker become?"

aruggirello — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:40:29 +0000

I'm replacing Dropbox with Unison [0] over ssh, BTW. It's a great piece of software (multiplatform, and it even has a GUI).

[0] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

New comment by aruggirello in "GitHub Incident"

aruggirello — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:59:16 +0000

Clippy to the rescue! :-)

New comment by aruggirello in "Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:09:28 +0000

WinXP in a (properly configured) VM boots, runs faster than Win7, Win10 - at least under Linux. It is plagued by compatibility issues though - eg. no modern HTTPS, no modern browser, .NET issues, insecure SMB... you really need to know what you're doing.

But armed with TuneXP 15, a recent AVG, CCleaner XP 1.38, sdelete, and WinKeyFinder175 (to be used together with UMSKT, basically the only way to reactivate it when your tweaking efforts inevitably trigger the - now broken - activation), you can start your adventure. No modern browser, mind you, though eg. "supermium 122" works, and don't forget read-only VMs or snapshots are your friends. I couldn't get virtio working, because VirtualBox 7 had a regression with it, so stick with emulated AHCI since VirtualBox 6 is so ...passé

New comment by aruggirello in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:14:21 +0000

Yeah the real mistake was starting with Endeavour. I wonder just how many people are turned off by their initial Linux experience because they choose stuff like Arch, Gentoo, or some obscure variant rather than Fedora, Kubuntu or Mint. Even stuff like Bazzite is probably an odd choice for a novice - though it would have handled that failed nVidia upgrade nicely.

New comment by aruggirello in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:02:50 +0000

Not so sure :(

https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy...

New comment by aruggirello in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

aruggirello — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:17:27 +0000

Not really equivalent to Lightroom, and not remotely a replacement, but there's Corel AfterShot Pro [1] (source: about 15 years ago, I was one of the (1?) proud Linux users of Bibble 5, its predecessor)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_AfterShot_Pro

New comment by aruggirello in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

aruggirello — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:10:57 +0000

Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades

(doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space).

OTOH the real issue with Ubuntu is snap(d). Snap packages definitely do auto-update. You may want to uninstall the whole snap system - it's (still?) perfectly possible, if a little bit convoluted, due to some infamous snaps like firefox, thunderbird, chromium, or eg. certbot on servers

Or just use Debian or any snap-free fork for the matter.

Edit: fixed

New comment by aruggirello in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

aruggirello — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:54:42 +0000

Microsoft had to move their local headquarters to Munich to have their municipality revert the change...

Now, if two or more municipalities managed to migrate to Linux at the same time...

New comment by aruggirello in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

aruggirello — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:51:11 +0000

I'm pretty sure you can do the same with Windows apps in Linux, since you can basically do the same with VirtualBox seamless mode too. It only requires installing the "guest additions" drivers - there's no container involved. The only major issues I see there are precisely with alt-tab - you cycle through your host windows, then suddenly ALL guest ones (and you're stuck in the guest until you press right Ctrl) - why is it so difficult to make alt-tab flow inside and outside the VM - at least in seamless mode?

New comment by aruggirello in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

aruggirello — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:07:37 +0000

> Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU.

Switzerland is not part of the EU in this timeline... But their rant sounds very much like an excuse, the WEEE is in effect at least since 2021:

"All EU Member States are required to adopt the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2012/19/EU, which sets rules for the collection, treatment, and recycling of electronic waste. However, some countries were granted an extension until August 2021 to meet the collection targets due to infrastructure limitations, including Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia" - courtesy Google AI overview

New comment by aruggirello in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

aruggirello — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:05:12 +0000

It seems things are improving for Christians in Indonesia in 2025 - or is the data missing?

https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/

New comment by aruggirello in "Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729"

aruggirello — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:01:39 +0000

> it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade

Another option would be Redshift, which has a nice widget (Redshift Control plasmoid) for KDE Plasma. It doesn't affect grabbed screenshots or stuff like simplescreenrecorder, BTW

New comment by aruggirello in "Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales"

aruggirello — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:19:16 +0000

This. Where are "Linux evangelists" in 2025? GNU/Linux as a whole has never been in better shape to catch users fleeing from Windows, it surely looks like a much easier task than it was 15 years ago (even despite UEFI's additional complexity burden).

Spot on the +17% in lenovo shipments, but shouldn't we also care about the huge number of computers they're replacing - just because they're incapable of running Windows 11?

New comment by aruggirello in "The Tag"

aruggirello — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:03:33 +0000

This dodgy GenAI calculator is funny... You can only add, multiply and divide. No subtractions allowed!