Any relatively new gaming PC from the last, what, 4? Years has enough power to run local LLMs. Maybe not the ginormous 70GB behemoth models, but the toned down ones are pretty damn good and if you don’t mind waiting a few seconds while it thinks, you can run it completely locally as much as you want, and whenever you want.

I think this describes all garages

PopOS. It was the easiest to get my Nvidia GPU set up and plays all the games that I wanna play without too much pain. I’ve been meaning to try something like Arch with KDE, something like what my SteamDeck is using… but I don’t wanna fuck around setting up Arch.

They did, and we’re really up front about it being an opt-in thing, if I remember correctly. Might have started that easy with Microsoft, too. But they can’t resist enshitifying.

Sony is a Japanese corporation