The models that the commercial AIs use are not at all usable on consumer grade hardware. The RTX pro 6000 has 96 gigs of vram, your GPU probably had 8.

I’ve played with the models that run on 16 gigs and it’s alright. But I wouldn’t even try fully vibe coding. Need some help with something small? Sure. But I wouldn’t have it try to make a finished product.

What whack ass setup so you think OP has? Dual 5090s? They’re running it on an i7.

There’s nothing magic about the M3 and newer machines stopping you from running Linux on them.

Asahi already has some early support for them.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-Asahi-Linux-2026

If you’re repairing something it’s always worth it to spend more on good components. Saving 10 cents a product isn’t worth it when you do <100 a year.

Ideally see if you can do a battery charge limit. Lithium batteries are happiest around 40-60% charge. If you can limit it that low then you keep your built in UPS, don’t risk the CPU running at a crawl, and the battery is happy. Even just the normal 80% that good laptops offer will be sufficient.

Are you sure it’s the GPU causing the problem and not the CPU? Check the power limits and clock speeds for both before and after it freaks out.

What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.

I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.

Motorsport runs passably on the steam deck. With the higher GPU requirements I’d be surprised if the steam deck can manage it.

Now directly mentioning the steam deck gets me a bit optimistic. Maybe they’re gonna try optimizing for it. Or maybe that was just a typo.

Ai work is usually very low precision. FP8 being the lowest you could go for a while meant it’s been the standard.

We’re not stuck with USB C until the end of time. If USB D comes out and the USB IF says this is the future then there’s provisions to switch to it.

My dynamic IP almost never changes. I’ve had 3 in the last 10 years. How often does yours change?

There’s also dynamic dns if yours changes often.

3 times the screen 3 times the price.

Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.

Maybe by you… Unfortunately.

If they’re not techy and changing to linux is out of the question then changing to iot is also probably out of the question.

iPhone: iOS

Main Android phone: grapheneos

Anything else: whatever it came with.

I gave up on custom roms like a decade ago and switched to iOS. Graphene is stable enough I’ll deal with it. Although I hate how annoying it is about locking the bootloader and root.

Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.

VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?

Also ZFS.

Not for at least a year.

Unless the AI bubble pops it’s gonna take a while for manufacturers to expand their capacity. Some are purposely not expanding as much as they should to match the demand. Either out of greed, or possibly in case it pops so they don’t end up with oversupply again.

Sure, but the Mac Pro has always been like that. There was a wide gulf between the 32gb base mac pro and the 1.5TB version too. They’ve always covered from high end amateur to high end pro.