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@cm0002 No good answer for RAM right now but with respect to GPUs, consider Intel Arc. I purchased a B50 Pro for a whole of $300, it’s turned out to be a reasonably solid performer. I have SR-IOV working on it now a vf for a windows vm, and one for LLAMA inference, I’m using a mamba model so unlike the big boys my LLM learns on the fly. And this thing draws a whole of 50 watts so you don’t need your own nuclear power plant to run it.

@cm0002 Not a big Klaus Schwab fan, so I will not eat the bugs, own nothing, and be happy.

If you can get a few hundred watts of electrical power, StarLink is an option for broadband connectivity via satellite when all the local communications are down. Don’t know why, but Star Link reminds me of Sky Net.

@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they’ve really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.

@Ulrich @Reygle There are Android televisions, Android uses a Linux kernel, some of them you can jailbreak, once you get access you can install whatever you like and remove what you don’t.

Never cared for Zorin’s inability to update from one release to another in place. Got way too many apps and custom configuration to re-install every time a new release comes out.