One of the few silver linings of the rampocalypse that I’ve noticed is a small increase in programs being developed to use less memory.

Almost missed that, thanks for pointing it out!

PC prices are crazy right now, but if you can find a used Lenovo ThinkCentre, I’d go for that.

I’m running an m720q and it’s neat because you can get a riser board and install an extra PCIe NIC of your choosing.

If you don’t want to go that route try to find a mini PC with 2 intel NICs, since they’re historically the most reliable and well supported.

Depending on the firestick you may be able to jailbreak it.

Scrolled down to see if some had mentioned this. I think the 2018 version of Photoshop worked the best iirc. Also Wayland may have issues with Drag and Drop.

As others are saying, OSMC might work. Most difficult part is making it so that the TV turns on when you turn on the computer since ARC isn’t a thing for most computers.

I ended up giving up on OSMC and bought an Apple TV since nothing else got the “wife approval” factor. It’s better than Google getting my data, has a Plex client, and let’s me stream my Steam library.

I have an RX6800XT and I use KoboldCPP to run models I download off of Huggingface.

I’m not sure how many tokens per second it generates, probably about 10?

If you want to try it yourself here’s a link to the Github page: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

I don’t know what your - and your kid’s - situation is, but I worry pushing Linux onto someone would be counterproductive to getting them to like it.

I only use it because I genuinely like and appreciate it. I’d probably start by getting him interested in it. If he likes it enough then he’ll try and learn more by himself.

I recently got an LLM running locally on an AMD GPU. This was only possible on Linux. Depending on your son, something like that could be a cool way to get him interested.

How do you mean teach?

Just getting them to use it or teaching them terminal commands?