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I have that setup for my home network regardless. And my TV is the original C1 OLED, nothing compared when I got it. I wouldn't buy LG today.

They hardcode DNS servers into the TV. You need a firewall in front of the pihole intercepting that traffic, I use OpenWrt.

OAI and HF basically saying that Chinese models are the only practical countermeasure available to us plebs. Got it.

I won't be giving a dime to the companies that stole all the IP in the world and are now gatekeeping it, acting as the rightful owners, and trashing the hardware market for everyone else in the process. So it's Chinese models or nothing for me.

Same here. Tried MLX twice at different times after reading the claims here but it always does considerably worse for me than llamacpp.

Thanks for that, I've been using it but some of these are bad. Specially that it sends data to the cloud by default for session titles, since I use my local model exclusively. So I'm done with it, trying maki now which seems promising and it's so much lighter.

Also don't agree with the optional policies, they can be unchecked if you already did. That disables a bunch of crap too.

There is plenty of malware for Linux. The difference is that the OS won't install it for you.

Linux is great if you win the hardware support lottery.

This is fairly easy to do by just not buying the absolute latest hardware. Installing something like Fedora in a 8-12 month old laptop I just can't recall last time I had issues.

I have a pihole in front of my LG TV blocking nearly every DNS query it tries. I only allow a couple streaming apps I do use and see zero ads.

Seriously, why use Windows in 2026? Such a hideous OS and ecosystem with endless malware, backdoors, and dark patterns.

Arch is also great for Intel macbooks around that age.

I honestly don't know how people manage without it. Most of us sit all day for work. My body will literally demand that I hit the weight room after a few days, otherwise I'll have trouble sitting for hours, sleeping, etc.

Anyone who's ever done a proper session of heavy squats or deadlifts knows this. Nothing compares to that feeling, certainly no amount of cardio.

Damn, I didn't know about vmspawn, will keep an eye. But I've been running VMs inside nspawn containers by binding /dev/kvm and using plain qemu. Works great.

Systemd-nspawn is great. You can have any networking you like with it too, no need for LXC.

These days I'm just using plain qemu directly and managing the bridges with systemd-networkd.

Most people aren't using vim that way. For your example, tmux would be more like emacs in the sense that you live in it, manages your windows, etc. Vim is just another tool in some window along with others.

Skill issue.

That would be a thinly-provisioned snapshot in LVM.

You can do those things with LVM snapshots too, that's what they are used for.

LVM does have snapshots.

So this is the narrative now? Come on.

You might start with ClamAV and something like Little Snitch.

Agreed, the Linux laptop story is pretty dire compared to Apple hardware. My travel laptop is an M1 with Asahi.

This is a tired cliché. Today, a modern Linux desktop like KDE Plasma just works and more importantly, gets out of your way unlike obnoxious MacOS and Windows. Aside of that you get the most advanced OS in the world where the thing being discussed here is a decade old.

So the NSA baseline of Linux + SELinux (that they helped develop) does not meet your needs but MacOS does? Please educate me.

What is your point again? All of the above sounds perfectly fine to me.

Skill issue.

Sounds like a very small town? In general most places are filled with shops you can walk to. In southern Europe in particular it's almost overwhelming the amount of options you have.