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Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?
“AI assistant” just seems like a euphemism for “increased tracking”.
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Imagine a standardized API where you provide either your own LLM running locally, your own LLM running in your server (for enthusiasts or companies), or a 3rd party LLM service over the Internet, for your optional AI assistant that you can easily disable.
Regardless of your DE, you could choose if you want an AI assistant and where you want the model to run.
I’ve had this idea for a long time now, but I don’t know shit about LLMs. GPT can be run locally though, so I guess only the API part is needed.
I’ve run LLMs locally before, it’s the unified API for digital assistants that would be interesting to me. Then we’d just need an easy way to acquire LLMs that laymen could use, but probably any bigger DE or distro can create a setup wizard.
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Yeah. I’m really annoyed by this trend of having programs that could function offline require connecting to a server.
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Open source locally run LLM that runs on GPU or dedicated PCIe open hardware that doesn’t touch the cloud…
To be fair - people don’t know what they want until they get it. In 2005 people would’ve asked for faster flip phones, not smartphones.
I don’t have much faith in current gen AI assistants actually being useful though, but the fact that no one has asked for it doesn’t necessarily mean much.
faster flip phones
I don’t think speed was a complaint anyone had about phones right before smartphones launched.
People were mostly concerned with cell phone plans. Talking used to be charged by the minute, texting was charged per text, and data was practically non-existent.
Cell phones have come a long way, but I think a lot of people take for granted just how much cell service has improved. I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.
I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.
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What if it’s a friendly purple gorilla
Would be a cool feature if it could be leveraged in a secure, private, efficient way that was more useful than 99% of the algorithmic monkey typewriter garbage that’s on the market these days. I don’t need a glorified Cleverbot rifling through my unspeakables.
Local LLMs are getting better at a very rapid pace. Still a bit too resource hungry to have running in the background all the time, but for example Mistral-7b is quite competent for its size.
HDR
Its current work in progress from different companies and groups working together (Gnome, Kde, RedHat, Valve, etc)
immediately thought of that too
what’s HDR?
High Dynamic Range. Compatible software, computer and monitor can display a greater range of brightnesses.
Why does everyone like it so much?
I’d tell you… if I had it!
Would be great for the tv screen with 4k and hdr that I have around for example.
It’s pretty great for media consumption and gaming, with the right hardware. Otherwise it kind of blows.
A bunch of ai garbage and also some ads please! Maybe collect info about me and sell it to marketing corporations while you’re there.
Yes yes! This is what I want! Can you also include a completely useless search bar?
this the only thing keeping me from moving from windows
Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.
tbf more often than not displaylink just sucks, no matter the OS.
Yes however on windows and mac displaylink “sucks” on linux it is practically unusable. I do agree Dlink sucks, but modern laptops have no alternatives to speak of.
My company insists on buying these shitty Dell DisplayLink docking stations. They suck so hard they are just a stupid expensive 90W charger. Even OS X users hate them. The frustrating thing is, these things were supposed to allow us to plug our laptop in anywhere and get two working screens, keyboard and charging. The only bit that works reliably is the keyboard and mouse.
There is a driver for it, but it bricks my OpenSuSE and stresses the CPU so much on OS X that it’s literally unusable.
I wonder why Displaylink still gets used when DP alt mode has existed for many years now.
We used Dell WD19 docks and they worked well enough. A bit buggy sometimes but a firmware update usually fixed it.
Really? I find displaylink awesome I alternatively use ChromeOS, Linux and windows with no issues even gameing on windows (lowers the FPS but fine for my abilities)
Curious what HW you are using I have a couple of different Dell DL models
Linux on displaylink was iffy but it has been great the last few years.
That’s fair.
I’m glad I don’t rely on any of that, personally. Aside from the trackpad, which works as it should.
trackpads work fine on Wayland or wirh xinput2
You want open firmware, so this is not a DE problem.
HDR
You could use game scope if I remember correctly
You need the game scope session, which there’s only a package for Nobara and I think Arch too but don’t quote me on that
And the session will require you to log out, which can be a massive pain in the ass.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope#status-of-gamescope-packages and i can conform on my fedora laptop it is there avalible in the repos to. I don’t have a HDR display if you don’t count in my phone.
A consistent system settings app that actually handles all configs without requireing manual editing of config files.
Which DE? With KDE I don’t think I’ve ever had to edit a config file. I do recall that being an issue with Gnome; it’s been years since I’ve used it though.
XFCE is really bad with this. KDE is much better, but still when setting up something a bit more complicated, you are quickly back to reading man pages. And man pages really aren’t great.
On KDE, if you want NumLock to start on at the login screen, you need to edit a file.
Also, to remap mouse side buttons, you need to either mess with a config file or install something like Input Remapper.
Neither of these things are true, if you’re using Wayland for both sddm and the session
I want the cube back.
KDE still has it
It never left, you can still use Compiz!
The what
Nice
Remote desktop working like it does in windows.
- easy to setup and use
- can remote into a system that has been recently rebooted. Without needing to make the user auto login and set the keychain password to be blank.
- resolution scales to remote client interface
I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.
What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn’t have better RDP support)
A lot of proprietary engineering software (CAD, MATLAB, etc) or GUI heavy programs have poor or no terminal interface to work with, so the need remote desktop solution is valid
I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH’d numbers
I dont know how to mount external drives on Bash without root privilegues. On the Desktop environment it can be done by just clicking without root password.
I can do anything I “need” to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.
At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.
Setting up vnc is not as easy as it should be. I really wish it as just send auth, if auth create virtual display and perf devices as user that actually sends it to remote client, user sees desktop env loaded.
I’ve had various VNC systems fail to interoperate. Like you have to use the same server and client.
@FarLine99 @beirdobaggins
It’s great that on the download page they have a scam warning, all remote services should have this.Agree. When the program became more popular, many scammers appeared who used this software.
I use rdp on Linux every day. It works as good as windows does. I am confused by this.
Unless you are not using RDP literally, and just mean remote desktop in general. Because RDP is not really a linux thing, even though I use it every day to connect to Windows machines (and the cloud) using a Linux client.
The only issue I have with RDP and linux (and have clients ask about) is the multimonitor support under wayland.
Using RDP clients like Remmina is great. The problem is running a RDP server in linux.
In order to connect you must already be logged in to the remote computer locally and have unlocked your keychain. If the remote computer lost power and rebooted you will not be able to get in unless you have set the computer to login automatically and have set the keychain password to be blank, which is not great for security.
You can not use a different screen resolution in the client than you have setup in the server. This means that using “RD Client” on my Android phone to connect to my desktop computer with a resolution of 1920x1080 doesn’t work. I need to use an alternate RDP client on my phone where a I can specify a custom resolution of 1920x1080. And then the user interface is tiny and does not fill my screen.
It never would have occurred to me to run a RDP server in Linux. It is a proprietary protocol. I would run a different server on a linux machine.
Edit: Thinking back to doing something similar seems like we set up XRDP. I usually just Forward X sessions if I want graphical environments in linux, but I do seem to recall doing it with XRDP too. I think you needed to have a user directory, but they did not have to be logged in.
Which server are you using on linux? How did you configure autostart?
I use the one built into Gnome but I have run into even more issues trying to install and use other ones.
that one does support autostart?
yes But not in any way that makes it useful. It starts when the user logs into the computer locally. If I was going to do that I wouldn’t need a remote session.
You can set the account to login automatically, but this doesn’t unlock the keychain which is needed to decrypt the user’s RDP password. So you can do it but you need to set your account to login automatically and set your keychain password to be blank.
Give https://remmina.org/ a shot. Solid RDP connection. I have been using it for a few years and works well with my work laptop (windows). I hated the VNC route.
Isnt Remmina a client only? Or can it be configured to autolaunch a VNC/RDP server?
I use Remmina and it is great as a RDP client. But that is not my issue.
The issue is the way RDP is implemented at the server level.
Gotcha, sorry I miss understood what you were looking for.
Kde, cast the screen wirelessly. The gnome app does work but it’s not integrated in kde display configuration
How is the GNOME app called? I’m asking for a school project
It should be gnome-network-displays
I just hope GNOME’s developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers’ stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland’s evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don’t support it.
I really love GNOME because it’s polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can’t still help but feel better at GNOME.
One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they’re made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.
The one that got me with them was when they banned third party screenshot tools from using the default screenshotting hooks. They cited security concerns, which is valid as it stops malware from hijacking this, however rather than adding the ability to add to a user controlled allow list (or any other potential workaround) they just rejected working with anybody on fixing this issue. Instead it came off as a transparent attempt to push their own screenshotting tool.
Isn’t that hook used by Zoom for screen sharing? IIRC Zoom on Linux only worked on GNOME because Zoom’s screen sharing implementation was to call GNOME’s screenshotting hooks 30 times per second
I did not know that about Zoom, but would make sense given how stubborn the Gnome lot are that such a terrible bodge is required rather than them working with others.
Yup hard agree on this. Switched to gnome a little more than a year ago and not planning to switch back because the polish and stability is too good - but this is a major issue.
I think the reason Gnome is good is the same thing that makes them insufferable. They believe there is a right way to do things, sometimes those are things you like, sometimes they aren’t.
I really want to have better tiling and window management in Gnome. Ubuntu has an add-on released with 23.10 that I haven’t got around to test yet. And I know that Gnome has that feature in the works, but it annoys me that Windows 11 has better management of windows with window-snapping than my DE of choice.
I’m not a Gnome user, but I’m geniunely hyped for the new tiling feature. If KDE doesn’t get something similar soon I might change DE just for that.
Which new tiling feature?
The one the Gnome team is working on right now, as described here.
The basic premise of rearranging windows at an optimal size, without stretching them out to fill fractions of the screen, seems like the perfect medium between floating and tiling.
Like Material shell?
The tiling concept that was shown off some time ago for GNOME looks amazing
Tiling…GNOME…? 👀
Homie, they’re working on that… but, there are extensions :>
TTS & STT, tightly integrated. And perhaps language translation.
Oh man I was playing with Mycroft and Mozzilla’s Deepspeach back in the day just for this. Though honestly a free desktop supported API that apps could integrate still seems like the best way for this. The next one would be getting Voice User Interface (VUI) support into major frameworks so it’s just native to apps built with major frame works. The latter makes more sense AFTER the desktop API starts getting standardized.
I want a tiling WM like hyprland to become a full DE with all the softwares installed together at once, some presets and settings instead of config files, so I don’t loose any more time tweaking it forever.
Keep an eye on Pop’s Cosmic desktop. Even the current customized gnome version is a nice tiling DE.
Yeah, it is gnome with tiling, it is not the same as a tiling manager.
This with Nvidia support :(
I used hyprland for a year with Nvidia support without tweaking it.
@visnudeva perhaps look into the EndeavorOS Sway community edition. It’s pretty sweet!
Will do, i used archcraft, great distro too.
Yeah, I tried Hyprland but never really felt alright coming from KDE because I don’t have the skill learning all config apps like eww or wayfire Panel etc.
A community workshop thing like KDE does would be even more awesome.
I used hyprland for a year or so, made config files (which are on GitHub) and I loved it but it takes so much time and effort. So now I am on KDE and it is alright.
Have look at nwg https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell
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Ctrl + alt + shift + meta + L hotkey to open LinkedIn
Add a global shortcut
Is this a joke?
Yes
What a relief. What I was dreading was that it was parody and M$ had added this to Windows 11.
Same with F for Facebook!
