My gear is an old:

I7-4790 16GB RAM

How many tokens by second?

It's not out of my scope, I'm just learning what can I do locally with my current machine.

Today I read about RAG, maybe I'm gonna try an easy local setup to chat with a PDF.

Even at 160kbps, maybe 1/1.000.000 people can recognice a FLAC vs MP3 trying 10 times (continuous) using expensive headphones and players, 320kbps is overkill, I prefer a FLAC and just encode to Opus.

Right now Opus is better and can be played in web browsers, smartphones, YouTube and Netflix are using that for awhile.

Wayland and Cosmic are not there yet for beginners, more like beta, watch videos from Brodie Robertson, I'll wait half year at least to try that for newbies.

But web browsers and video players are going to be painful with any distro.

This!

Even 4GB RAM is low for web browsers and they're gonna struggle, A LOT, even with just one tab open, is going to be painfully slow to not want to use it anymore.

Old laptops like this, don't have hardware video decoders for YouTube or any video in AVC or HEVC códecs that is used everywhere today.

You can use Gnumeric for spreadsheets and Abiword for docs if Libreoffice is too slow.

• SliTaz is fun to play and very small.
• Puppy Linux is very capable and there are Debian variants.

Bad idea, they struggle with YouTube or any video because they don't have hardware decoders for AVC/HEVC.

Maybe can decode by software, something easy on CPU (MPEG1 maybe), and the conversion is done by other machine.

Maybe audio?

Reference: I have one of those Atom netbooks.

EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO

Not so obscure, just 50mb and very functional, in between tiny core and puppy.

Not really obscure

1. LTSC + WSL (Better than VM)
2. Dual Boot
3. Linux only

Or Win10 IoT LTSC till 2032

To me Adobe has very bad UI, I did try to use it, and first time was awful. Freehand was a lot more intuitive, but when Macromedia was bought, was killed.

I get it, that a lot of people did learn to use Adobe UI, and of course they want the same because they're used to, but doesn't make it better.

Affinity is more friendlier than PS to me.

I'm not saying that GIMP UI is perfect or good, but right now, to my casual use case, is not bad. Obviously can be better, and get some ideas from other UIs.

I prefer:

• ImagePipe: fast edit
• Snapseed: complex edit (not FOSS)
• Aves: gallery
• Superimage: AI upscaler (RealESRGAN)
• Waifu2x NCNN: AI upscaler (Waifu2x, RealCuGAN)

With ChaiNNer you can remove background, upscale (local), it's a lot more flexible and compatible with models than Upscayl, also a little bit more complex (node based, not as complex as comfyUI). You can upscale an image with a face model and use other model for everything else in the same image.

Use Termux, you need:

• Android Tablet/Smartphone.
• Bluetooth keyboard.
• Cheap stand 4 device.

That's my setup to play tabletop rpg (DND5E) for a couple of years, all CLI using any text editor you like with markdown. I use: tmux, vis.

In your case: SC-IM, visidata, any text editor.

With Termux you can use packages from repo or from other distros with proot-distro, like: Alpine, Avoid, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu.

• ChaiNNer: is very flexible and can do all of that. Node based.
• Upscayl: do only upscales with less models, but has simpler UI, very fast in AMD GPU (because NCNN).

• I haven't tried automatic1111 or ComfyUI yet.
• All of them work offline withou limits and are more flexible than online alternatives.

GIMP has:

• OpenVINO.
• stable-gimpfusion
• gimp-stable-boy

Works with Chromecast 2 (no Android)?

Do you know the exploit was detected in Debian Sid? (by a PostgreSQL developer), Arch got the update (with both compromised versions), but because don't directly link openssh to liblzma (as Debian), and thus this attack vector is not possible.

Also, other rolling distros also got the compromised versions, maybe: openSUSE Tumbleweed, Endeavour OS, Fedora Rawhide, Slackware -current, etc.