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i am using claude to install arch linux on my laptop. what could go wrong? i have him ssh'ed into my latop.
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>>108453962
proofs

let the fun begin
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>>108453962
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This is actually interesting
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>>108453992
HES STARTING
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>>108453999
This. Watching this thread with some moderate interest
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he did genfstab!
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>>108454019
he did the chroot
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>>108454026
so he's done. i just need to set the passwords
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Pretty cool, OP. Thanks for sharing.
I'd like to see how far you can take it with more complicated setups (probably just LVM/LUKS first), but very neat to see the process in action for the simpler case.
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>>108454035
i asked him to set the password for me, gave him the password i want, and he set it.
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Gonna get more interesting once someone hijacks the session OP so graciously shared in >>108453970
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did use much usage to do it
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ok boot up time
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>>108454075
well we have login screen
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>>108454090
and we have desktop
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Breaking: AI can now read a documentation!
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>>108454100
what's next? surely you're not going to end your quest here
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>>108454090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4
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>>108453999 (checked)
>>108454012
This.
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>>108454100
Well i believe Claude was successful in installing arch
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>>108454127
maybe later ill try doing a more intensive install. i was curious to see if it could do a normal, basic install on my laptop, and it did.
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>>108454127
Next: gentoo.
Finally: eat every remaining token on LFS.
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>>108454160
you son of a bitch ima do it
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>>108454160
Gentoo with manual kernel configuration.
Not the easy mode.
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op just invalidated endeavours existence
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>>108454188
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>>108454189
>Gentoo with manual kernel configuration.
It's just gonna do a safe default.
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do a barrel roll
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>>108454197
gentoo iso added
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after two decades, arch has finally a proper installer
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>>108454197
>>108454219
BASED.
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>>108453962
Bro just 'archinstall'
It ain't hard...
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>>108454249
so far the biggest obstacle is KDE ALREADY CRASHED ON ME.

when i went to connect to wifi, kwallet crashed.
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>>108454277
KDE sucks

Install a clean arch and let it do a clean room replication of omarchy
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>>108454277
Checked and keked. I fucking hate kwallet so goddamn much.
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>>108454277
>>108454289
You all fucking SUCK, KDE never Krashed on me even once, i had no problems with it EVER. okay maybe sometimes sddm.
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>>108454277
now its just spinning indefinitely.
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>>108454299
ok so i reboot twice and it now finally connected. why kde so bad
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>>108454295
>bug rant about kde never krashing
>okay maybe sometimes
Kek. Thanks, man. I'm not even a hater, but yeah it does do that maybe sometimes.
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>>108454295
>>108454317
kde looks pretty and is easy to customize, but is buggy as hell

meanwhile gnome looks shit, needs javascript extensions to customize, but at least the core is solid
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>>108454317
ok got ssh up and running. connected to my laptop. gonna bring up claude
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>>108454340
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>>108454395
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>>108454395
>what's the hardware
Nigger, are you running locally or not?
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>>108454407
since i don't want to wait hours to compile stuff like gnome, ima tell him to install openbox or something light.
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>>108454410
see >>108454407
claude answered that himself
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>>108454422
You could do xfce.
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>>108454407
do it
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>>108454430
how long would xfce take? this laptop has a quad core i5.
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>>108454407
what does claude do if you reply something like 'just fuck me up real good senpai'
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>>108454459
he would fuck me up real good senpai' lol. i've done something similar before.
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Have it configure your nvim setup next
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Based Bread is Based, have a Bump, Bro.
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>>108454461
Yeah like 'hey claude install arch for me. fully rice it while you're at it and install some lesser known - unconventional even - programs for me to use and tell me how to use it. heres the keys aka ssh credentials and root access'
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so... how my man claude doing?
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HE STARTING
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>>108454454
No idea, but it's written in C, which compiles reasonably fast.
Gnome has C++ in it.
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>>108454505
>>108454509
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>>108454514
HE'S DOWNLOADING THE STAGE 3 TARBALL NOW
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>>108454522
>install kernel
So we really go with a default config? Lame.
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>>108454143
can claude also install gentoo?
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>>108454538
if this works, ill have him do a custom kernel in the live system
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>>108454234
picrel actually made me snort
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>>108454548
what DE are you on? also what terminal emulator?
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>>108454509
>pie man
>hot dog
Wait, are you posting from the US Virgin Islands, per any chance?
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>>108454548
my laptop is screaming right now.
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>>108454578
see pic
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>>108454548
So "install gentoo" is just download a stage3 tarball and run a 150 line bash script?
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>>108454625
you download a base, configure your system and compile everything you need
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>>108454609
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>>108454649
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>>108454660
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>>108454671
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>>108454625
The meme's fairly outdated now, back in the day it implied a LFS-type setup, only a little easier
The biggest challenge of Gentoo now is compiling a custom kernel as using Gentoo implies you'll want to.
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>>108454681
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>>108454119
if reading the documentation was easy then 90% of tech workers wouldn't have jobs.
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>>108454733
still emerging. who knew a boot loader needed a 85 packages.
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>>108454808
>sleep 300
>aight I'mma take a nap, boss, brb
>Do not disturb me, alright?
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>>108454836
kek
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>>108454119
Downplaying this is ridiculous lmao. This thread is legitimately impressive.
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>>108454808
almost there.
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>>108454853
GRUB IS INSTALLED. WE HAVE PROGRESS
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>>108454853
>snooze 180
>snooze 120
Why the fuck is my snooze getting shorter?
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>>108454861
Openbox is next
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>>108454864
your snoozes got longer
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>>108454939
Good! *sinks into the blanket* G'night, boss.
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>>108453962
>>108454100
Were you able to verify that it set up all the partitions and shit correctly? If it did then that's scary...
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>>108454950
yeah, claude did setup everything correctly. he did the standard arch wiki install perfectly.
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>>108454950
>that's scary
>nooooo not my sekrit distro club
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>>108454950
Yes, time to go to the trade school to learn plumbing, bro
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>>108454950
>efi boot partion
>swap partition same size as system ram
>rest on ext4
This is the most mash enter through a GUI installer tier partition scheme out there. Cool that it can do it but still very basic and simple.
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>>108453962
How feasible is it to make it have a dominant female personality and have her techdom and blackmail me?
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>>108454950
>AI can follow basic instructions
scary indeed
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>>108455001
Trades are next on the AI list. Unless humanity merges with the digital machine, humanity is done.
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>>108454982
>>108455001
>>108455022
Are you going to say the same thing when it successfully installs Gentoo from scratch too?
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>>108455037
I really don't like the kerning on that LT. I don't see how else it could be better either, but I really don't like the whole thing.
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>>108455022
for another arch install try, give me a list to make it more challenging. I already have:
>Encryption
>Complex paritioning
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>>108455045
Not any of those anons, but I'm more impressed with how throughout the documentation is. They break down a very complex system installation into a series of simple steps that anyone can just follow along and get the desired result. Simple.
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almost there
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>>108455054
Linux From Scratch
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>>108455054
You could have it try to set up dualboot (Arch + something quick to install like Fedora or something)
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>>108455064
>sleep 600
I still can't stop laughing at you automating that one guy who sleeps at his job because "compiling"
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>>108455054
The first thing that came to mind was setting up BTRFS subvolumes with a backup like Snapper.
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>>108455064
This is going to take a long time to complete.
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>>108455082
>setting up BTRFS subvolumes with a backup like Snapper
thats a good idea
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>>108455077
>while
>until
>naw I'm just gonna take a nap
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>>108455098
we are at 1 hour and 20 minutes so far into this install.
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>>108454012
One of the more cooler threads today.
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>>108455112
i looked over at the lappy and saw 11gb of ram usage. that poor i5 is doing the best it can do.
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>>108455074
Claude is ready for it.
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Pretty cool OP. I will check in with continued interest.
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What is the use case for this?
Not wanting to know how your OS is configured?
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>>108455174
Use case is because I can.
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PROGRESS
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>>108455188
Based.
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>>108455205
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>>108455219
So give me your bets how long this is going to take until completion?
>1 more hour?
>2 more hours?
>2 years?
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>>108455219
how can claude even read the ssh output?
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>>108455205
157 more packages to emerge? I feel "desktop tools" and "appropriate set of tools (file management, terminal, wifi, but don't do a web browser)" is too generic. It seems it doesn't care about pulling some tool and then bringing in a bazillion deps with it.

>>108455225
He'll wake up in 10 minutes to snooze some more.
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>>108455227
I loaded Claude CLI on my laptop in the live usb environment, then I ssh into my laptop from my desktop and run Claude.
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>>108455230
Yeah I was taken aback as well. It will be interesting to see what was done after everything is complete and I can boot into the enviroment.
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>>108455260
86 out of 157 done so far.
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It will be riddled with workarounds and dumb ideas it found on random forums.
It will work though. But if you actually intended to use such a system you would be permanently dependent on claude to constantly fix things for you.
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>>108455260
Yeah, I'm sure it will work, but I feel like it went naively:
>user wants a file manager, thunar is a file manager, let's go with that and those deps
>user wants a terminal, (I dunno what it picked) but let's go with taht and those deps
Instead of thinking "since we're already going thunar, maybe xfce-terminal would share some deps, so we don't need another several many. Not only that, but planning what set of tools would share dependencies and make something more cohesive. Idk, it just looks that way from over here.

t. never installed gentoo, but I did make such mess of several dependencies early on learning linux, I pretty much had all of GNOME and KDE dependencies to run one package of each DE.
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>>108455307
Cope.
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>>108455314
i have a feeling it went with nautilus and gnome terminal. i saw it pull a ton of gnome stuff.
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>>108455307
Cope Luddite. AI won, Codefags lost and sysadmins lost too
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>>108455328
Your concession is accepted.
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>>108455332
My favorite part is that you actually believe this. Please keep going while I get some more popcorn.
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>>108455333
Ohhh, you're on Copium.
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>>108455343
Double concession accepted.
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>>108455331
Needless to say, whatever was chosen, it was my fault for being vague but I really wanted to see what Claude would do on its own with the little information I gave him.
I'm sure if I told him to keep it minimal and lightweight it probably be done by now.
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>>108455350
>tint2
>obconf
Based
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>>108455331
Yeah, if it went full GNOME except the DE, it's less bad. It just failed to understand the intent behind you wanting Openbox (which I'm assuming more minimal, less compile, faster to finish the install). It's understandable, since you did'nt openly explain why you wanted that. Many humans could do the same mistake.

>>108455205
I saw it trying thunar here.

>>108455219
I didn't see the lots of GNOME stuff here.
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>>108455339
You are brown and useless now. We VIBEGODS won
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>>108455356
On the htop output on the laptop itself I saw it compiling gnome desktop.
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>>108455358
Won what exactly? The top slop award?
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>>108455350
>xterm
>after pulling lots of gnome deps
It's what I'm saying. If you're going deep into gnome ecosystem, why not go gnome-terminal instead of xterm? If you're going minimally xterm, then you'd avoid whatever pulled the whole gnome deps. But that's a deeper level of thinking about it, going beyond what you asked, and I wouldn't expect the ai think it. If it did so, I'd be very surprised (because it would show it stopped to plan the whole system before pulling packages).

>>108455361
Hoping you don't get gnomed, anon.
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>>108455364
Nah we can program and do whatever you do much faster, cheaper and better than you would ever do. We are superior. you will die jobless and alone.
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Its been on llvm so that's probably going to be ~40 minutes.
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>>108455368
You cant do shit. You have not produced a single thing of use and you never will because all you are doing is letting your glorified autocomplete copy other people's work which you cant even copyright. I hope this continues. The trainwreck is going to be glorious.
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>>108455384
>I hope this continues. The trainwreck is going to be glorious.
Two more weeks, right?
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>>108455384
I don't understand vocal ai haters. It's a broken window tale and you, the hand code chad, is the glass maker, but you're cursing at the kids throwing rocks. Why? Let the trainwreck happen, then charge big bucks to fix it. Why would you urge people to stop the train?
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>>108455392
>I'm snoozing for 21 minutes
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>>108455384
Two more weeks Luddite tranny. We won
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but why is it so sleepy?
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Okay, thank you a lot, anon, for doing this. Seeing you doing it and some pitfalls I want to avoid, I'd probably tell the prompt to do a minimal POSIX compliant install. Later add some LSB compliance including X11. Try to grow it more controlledly. I understand why you did it the way you did it, I'm just thikning out loud here.
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>>108455421
Its np. I have had the same thoughts as well from doing this. Next time I will be way less vague and more precise.
Probably be worth chatting with the AI for a good, thorough battle plan before doing it.
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>>108455402
Turns out coffee is good for you. It keeps you up.
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>>108455246
explain this further
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>>108455434
Yeah. But it's still impressive how well it handled Arch and it's handling Gentoo. A complete noob can install it and write a jeet linkedin post about how he's awesomely breaking barriers and what-not.
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Why does he sleep 300 on each command?
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>>108455246
why do you need the ssh part
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>>108455478
Is that not how you work?
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>>108455484
To let the laptop go brrrrrrrrr while he shitposts on his main computer?
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my idea:
create a generic linux install ISO that is just a basic OS with AI tools. the gui helps you link it up with your account and then the AI installs whichever linux you ask for in whatever way you ask for.
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>>108455509
AILFS as a daily-driver?
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>>108455392
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>>108455522
>it can take 15 to 30 minutes
>I'll sleep for 20
Fuck you if it finishes in 15, I'll still get 5 more minutes nappy time.
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>>108454100
>Gnome
Use case for Claude using a gnome?
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>>108455484
see
>>108455495
is correct. for i can use my desktop for everything.
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>>108455522
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>>108455509
Fuck distros. If the AI gets to that point I don't even want distros. It'll just be "the linux installer".
>I'm ready to install Linux. What will you be using your computer for?
>"i wanna play videogayms"
>Will you primarily be playing with a controller, or do you prefer mouse and keyboard?
>"i don't know what that means"
>Got it, installing Linux now...
Every computer gets custom distro built from scratch for specific hardware and usage, every time.
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>>108455495
>>108455545

you dont need ssh to do that, the main computer is free in both scenarios
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>>108455545
well while we wait for llvm to compile, my new router came today.
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>>108455522
>sleep 1200
ok but why though
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>>108455598
But he can screenshot the ssh claude going brrr and post on his browser from the main computer instead of wasting laptop brrrr on the browser and screenshoting or giving us potato quality camera pics.

>>108455603
Why not? If you could sleep while on the clock, wouldn't you?
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>>108455598
I don't need to turn my head. The output is right here on my desktop.
I can place my laptop in another room and be able to use it all nice and comfy from my desktop.
Its a convenience thing. Of course you don't need to use SSH.
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>>108455608
>But he can screenshot the ssh claude going brrr and post on his browser from the main computer instead of wasting laptop brrrr on the browser and screenshoting or giving us potato quality camera pics.

thanks now this makes sense
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>>108455613
Np.
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>>108455608
That's iPhone potato quality camera pics, thank you very much.
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>>108455632
My issue was more with the quality of the angle, but okay.
>>108454609 The pic is big and high res, but I have to zoom and then going down I need to go sideways too to keep reading. Not a problem here for htop, but if every pic was like this, it would get tiring. Your arms would probably get very tired too, holding up your iPhone.
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>>108455648
Oh I wasn't being sarcastic. I actually hate the camera on my iPhone 17. Pic related, photo from my Pixel 7.
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>>108455652
My iPhone
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>>108455652
>>108455657
Tbf I'm an eyelet. I can't tell those apart. One day, dad was showing off his new fullhd (1080p) tv instead of the old just hd (720p) and I didn't even notice the bevels were different.
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>>108455667
Oh it np. To my eyes, the Pixel 7 is more clear and more detail.
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Llvm done. Now time for Clang. Joyful. Why do people use Gentoo again?
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>>108455696
Back to bed, I guess.
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>>108455714
I do like how Claude does actually go to sleep.
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>>108455696
OK someone explain that sleep 1800 meme
does he just wait 30 minutes because it's how long he thinks the command will take? WHy not just read the command output to now when it ends
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>>108454100
>Gnome
I see we have far to go yet.
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>>108455737
>Claude does this so it can:
>Keep watching the huge LLVM compile (package 113 of 157) without constantly flooding the chat.
>Avoid its own 10-minute timeout that would otherwise kill the emerge.
>Still show you live progress every few minutes (you can see lines like “LLVM build is at 1.5GB – it’s actively compiling”).
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>>108455737
Reading is for suckers, we're guesstimating nap times here, boy.
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>>108455696
I just realized Gentoo does have binaries. I should have told Claude to use binaries when available.
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>>108455763
I could tell him right now via /btw but we already made it this far, might as well see it through.
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>>108454061
so it costs me 8.5 dollars to install arch?
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>>108455737
He seems to be increasing it based on assumed compile time. I've never used Claude like this but I'd imagine this preserves tokens since he doesn't have to keep checking on the results until the sleep is done.
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>>108455773
He's sleeping for another 31 minutes.
>>108455793
No. On this Claude pro account, that's how much I spent for extra usage during moments when I ran out of usage.
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>>108455793
how much do you make in an hour at your job? if you take more than an hour to do it on your free time, it's more expensive than using claude
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>>108455815
>I'd imagine this preserves tokens
Yes, I'd imagine it would try to waste tokens instead.
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>>108453962
>have him
>him
A computer script doesnt have gender, dumbfuck.
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>>108455793
I started the Arch install at 0% usage for the current session. He used 3% of my usage for session to install Arch. Which was a lot lower than I expected.
So far for the Gentoo install, since compiling is take so long, he's barely using usage and gone on long enough, it has already reset to the next usage count.
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this thread is fun but not particularly interesting because of course it can install arch and gentoo
this stuff is baby-tier for the models now
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>>108455827
i am a neet
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>197 posts
Does /g/ cap bumps at 200 or 300? Are we getting a /ccg/ claude compiles gentoo #2?
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For funnies I put Codex on it to Audit Claude. He has findings.
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>>108455037
Trades are being affected. AI tools like bluon turn dumb HVAC techs into seasoned troubleshooters. They will see their wages hit as well. The autistic manual memorizer is no better than the noob
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>>108455888
300
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We passed llvm and clang. Mesa is compiling now.
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>>108455893
>suspicious about amd64 image for an x64 cpu
based retard
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>>108455893
>package plan was not well grounded
>messy package pulls
I noticed that and discussed it at length. I feel validated by the ai.
And I hate that I do.
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>>108455893
To be fair to Claude, Codex only read a transcript. He didn't see everything Claude actually did. I was just curious what Codex would say just from the transcipt.
I do agree with the useflags though because I feel like that is what caused so many packages to be pulled. Another thing I could have done, was telling Claude to be conservative with useflags. Use them minimally.
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>>108455037
I hope that has a GPR sensor on that arm.
>goes up to wall
>drills hole
>cuts rebar
>wall buckles
>buried under rubble
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>>108455937
>then smirks
>heh, nothing personal, kid
>robots away
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>>108455943
>detective looking over the rubble, some one says
>I'm telling ya, it was just a damn robot malfunction. I dunno why you guys are here
>this bot was hacked
Cyberpunk shit, minus the cool noodle eating in the rain.
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>>108454808
it doesn't, look it's installing gtk. not certain why, maybe it enabled the graphical kernel config menu or something
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Almost done
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OMG HE'S DONE
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>>108455969
are you going to keep it? or is this just for the meme
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>>108455969
>>108455972

NIce! Congrats! Will you rerun the codex audit to see if there's anything you should at least ask Claude before rebooting?
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>>108455975
No. I want to go into raw to see exactly what Claude did and Claude's quality.
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>>108455972
>3h 50m 46s
and I loved every moment of it. Thank you, OP, you were not a fag today.
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>>108455978
Niiiiice.
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>ai can install gentoo
/g/ is finished
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>>108455974
we have a login screen
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>>108455981
Half of it spent sleeping
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>>108456028
That's what I loved the most.
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>>108456028
can't really do much while compiling, and it evidently has an idea how long they take given it points out llvm as taking a while
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>>108456011
and the very basic openbox setup with tint2
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>>108456058
Looks very comfy for a 4h unattended install. What else do you have?
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Good thread Anon, your laptop looks bowed upward in the center of the keyboard, but maybe it's just your camera.
I would be interested if a local model like Qwen3.5 could achieve installing Arch via opencode.
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>>108456064
its really basic. all i have in the openbox menu is thunar, xterm, and network manager. i really believe most of the stuff was dep bloat due to useflag being used liberally.
right now i am getting claude setup to do a custom kernel config
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>>108456108
Very cool. It's getting late here, so I won't stick around this next one. But I'll sure read the archived thread.

Anyway, thanks for the great thread. /g/ usually sucks balls but every once in a while there's a very nice thread that makes you go "yeah, that's why I keep coming here". This was that thread.

Good night, everybody. And good night to claude sleepyhead, employee of the month.
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>>108456126
Thank you for enjoying it! Good night anon.
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>>108455667
They really are practically the exact same unless you pixel peep. iPhone's processing seems to be destroying fine details but that's about it.
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let the games begin. custom kernel time
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>>108454100
proud of you lil buddy. Love you
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But can it play crysis?
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>>108456219
ITS BUILDING
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>>108456194
this is gonna be the best episode yet guys I just know it
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>>108456223
needed to install kernel sources.
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>>108456228
ok now its building
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>>108456206
Did ... did it just set a bunch of options, but leave almost all the other shit in there on? Like, there are drivers NO ONE USES that are enabled by default.

Oh god. Enjoy your 50 MB kernel.
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>>108455993
kek
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>>108456263
no. he disabled everything that was not needed. ill have him give me a summary when he's done
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>>108456235
>I'll handle initramfs
... yes. Yes it does.

For the record: I used to run Gentoo too, with all *necessary* (!) modules and firmware and EDID and what not compiled into the kernel. No need for initramfs. Kernels were 5 MB in size, and that was *it*.

Oh god, this is going to be so fucking bad.
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If this ends up working out, I might try having Claude build me a custom kernel for Arch. Should build A LOT faster with my 14900k compared to this poor little lappy i5.
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>● Need to rebuild with the fixed version string so the kernel and modules match. Most files are cached so it'll be quick:

sigh
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its done! wish me luck guys
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>>108456323
I need to see the stats. Config, size of kernel, size of initramfs. Heck, the fact that there's an initramfs in the first place is reason for concern.
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>>108456323
post from the lappy with the fresh kernel
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>>108456326
i am having him to do that right now before i reboot
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Thank you for this thread OP this is very entertaining
>>108456326
retard here, why is an initramfs concerning? I thought it was required
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>>108456339
>removed support for SMB, NFS
>removed iptables, nftables
>removed crypto "unused algorithms"
>removed webcam capture
a'ight
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>>108456338
>I thought it was required
You'd be wrong. An initramfs is required if you have modules that you need in order to hit userspace (because that's where the rest of the modules are), but that you, for some reason, haven't compiled into the kernel directly (like when you're on a distribution).

If, on the other hand, you know exactly which modules you need, then an initramfs is just going to waste RAM, because initramfs support in the kernel ain't cheap.

>>108456353
If it's convinced that it has only included the stuff that you need, then why are there modules on disk in the first place?
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and it works. booted right up :)
>>108456356
lmao i know. i saw it stripped out all the other FS stuff. a bit to extreme but hey. it works as long as its ext4 and only ext4 lol
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>>108456365
Alternatively there are drivers outside the tree that literally cannot be compiled in, like nVidia GPU drivers - but even then you can just leave those on disk.
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>>108456365
Thank you for the explanation. I'll have to see if I can get away with stripping it out then. Last time I messed with the kernel I just followed what the wiki said and used dracut without really thinking about it.
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>>108453992
>gnome desktop
Claude has some SHIT taste
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he said i don't need the initramfs
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>>108456412
And it didn't occur to the little shit to check for that *while configuring the fucking kernel*? Also
>Error: Exit code 1
Love it.
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>>108456415
he had to add in vfat support because /boot cannot be mounted without it lmao
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>>108456423
>he had to add in vfat support because /boot cannot be mounted without it lmao
Yeah I'm to put "not satisfactorily" on that one.
I said it's gonna be bad.
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>>108456433
MY FIRST EVER KERNEL PANIC!
lmao this is awesome
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>>108456445
Missing FS/block device driver. My guess.
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>>108456445
well, i don't advise using claude for custom kernel configs atm.

but for installing linux? so far, i would say, yes. pretty solid experience tonight. did both arch and gentoo.

alright time to take a break. thank you for attending my ted talk.
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>>108456456
>atm
Probably more like ever.
The reason you didn't have issues installing Arch and Gentoo is because the process has been well-documented since at least 2014.

But kernel configurations? It's my belief they don't document that shit properly so that they can secure their employment with their "esoteric" knowledge, and I don't see anyone stepping up anytime soon here.
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>>108454119
/thread. Yall niggers know arch hasn't been difficult to install in over a decade right
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>>108456445
Intredasting, maybe all our jobs will be safe yet...
Cool thread OP, it was entertaining.
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>>108456445
That error suggests your kernel is missing the appropriate modules/features to see your roofs and/or mount it (example: sata controller, nvme support, ext4/btref/etc driver, gpt/mbr support, etc), or simply your bootloader is misconfigured
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good bread
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>>108454459
>yeah no actually i DONT like that partition layout can you just give me something really retarded instead
500gb swap partition
/etc, /bin as separate 5gb partitions but everything else in / (20gb).
remainder of space for /tmp partition
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>>108456356
>>removed webcam capture
based schizo ai
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anyone considering another alternative career path? I was thinking about uber
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>>108456100
Tried this with Opencode and Arch, Qwen 3.5 27b and 35b a3b both failed, 27b installed but didn't install a boot loader, 35b a2b got stuck in a loop reformatting the drive and hallucinating about the capacity. However Qwen 3 coder next 80b a3b did manage to install Arch and even used btrfs and systemd-boot.
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>>108455601
Thats one heccin chonker floofer. What's his name?
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>>108456395
That was OP. Confirmed a fag as always.
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>>108453962
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>>108454001
Very cool, but can it install Arch without SystemD?
Since SystemD is such a topical subject these days.
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>>108459015
It's called Artix
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>>108457571
his name is ghost. he's 8 now. i got him when he was 3 weeks old. when i lived in wa. he's a chonky nebelung but incredibly sweey boy.
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trying opus 4.6 on high reasoning now.
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>>108460001
>swap on NVMe
I like how it doesn't even give out a warning that swap isn't good for flash memory.
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nvidia gpus suck ass
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>>108454234
This picture just undid my antidepressants
Christ that's dark
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>>108460126
and everything booted up just fine. this is great. im gonna keep this install on my lappy.
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>>108455001
I'm not smart enough for plumbing, can I use Claude on my phone
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>>108455307
>you would be permanently dependent on claude to constantly fix things for you
So it's a brother-in-law that doesn't ask to borrow money
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>>108455545
Why is there a gpu and motherboard hanging on your wall?
Is this some break for emergency shit?
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>>108453962
this is the sort of person that tells you about how much more productive they are with AI
it's arch fucking install
the cleanest, easiest way to install a decent linux distro we ever had
this is the sort of thing they are automating. stuff you do in 5 minutes while thinking about a hard task you're gonna move on to after you're done. yeah, it would take them an afternoon. claude is a huge boost. because they're fucking retarded
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>>108460318
the video card is my old 6900 xt. i put it up for display. the motherboard is my old z490 msi unify board. i loved that board with my old 10850k i had in it. they are are just up on display because i had no use for them anymore.
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>>108456445
Can you ask for a refund ? You literally paid 8 bucks for this
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>>108459906
Nice anon. Give him a big hug and some yummy treats for me
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>>108455391
Didn't the startup that offered untangling projects from AI slop go bankrupt?
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>>108454119
why did they edit out her flat chest
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>>108455102
>sleep 300
based snoozer
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>>108453962
>*runs out of tokens in the middle of the install*
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>>108460177
>a brother-in-law that doesn't ask to borrow money
Kek.
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>>108455836
I don't understand why you insisted on burning out your hardware compiling everything from scratch if it was going to be a generic laptop and not a workstation. Oh well, your loss there for not telling it to grab compiled binaries.
>>108456463
Kernel configs are not something that gets published like ricing desktop configurations by people and it's not for gatekeeping either. They change quite frequently, even between kernel versions and most of those options are there for kernel development purposes. You would have to be a Linux kernel developer and actually look at the source code and what it enables and doesn't to understand which switch flips what, which is a very small minority of people so there just isn't training data out there. It's not gatekeeping at all when that is what it requires. Enthusiasts who would change these kinds of things for xanmod and etc. are really just copying configs others in the know have set up. It's no wonder Claude screwed it up because it went and tried to source the knowledge online instead of doing what you should do which is read the damn source code for the kernel to understand what is changing but that would've probably blown the context window of the thing in the process.



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