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  • I had no idea this had a name! When I was a small child we lived by the coast and my dad had a small yacht, one day I remember the keel lodged on a sandbar and he used the anchor to pull it free. Unfortunately we moved inland when I was 5 and dad sold the yacht.

  • How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ?
  • I work as a software engineer for an Australian bank. My team works remote except for one day a fortnight which is in office to have some meetings that work better in person and so we can catch up and go for lunch. However I didn't go in for my last in office day because I had too much to do and it can be hard to get work done when we are in office.

  • Pros and cons of getting a job at a very small software company? (14 employees)
  • I worked for a small software company for 6 years after finishing uni. I was the first person the founders hired. It was a great time and I learnt a lot and got to make a lot of decisions and had a lot of freedom.

    But they didn't pay anywhere near as much as a corporate job so when I got offered significantly more money to work for a very large company the small company couldn't match it and pushed me to take it as a huge career and development opportunity.

    It's been great working at the big company but I really miss the culture and involvement I had at the small company.

  • Your first distribution
  • Ubuntu sometime around 2008 or 2009 after there was an install disk in a PC magazine. I didn't use it for long and went back to windows, but I experimented again with Debian a few years later and these days I daily Manjaro.

  • I'm increasingly unhappy with the limits on AI text generation and I have heard that it's not that hard to do it on a laptop oneself. What is the best path forward?
  • Yes it runs on Linux, my laptop is running Manjaro and I installed it from the AUR. I'm not sure if the scripting is possible, there is an openAI compliant web API you can turn on so maybe possible through that, you would probably have to feed in the content of the site with the prompt though, I'm not sure there is a better way but I guess that sort of behaviour is a bit out of scope for GPT4All.

    There is a local documents feature that allows it to access text files on your machine that you give it specific access to but I think it's fairly limited in its ability.

  • I'm increasingly unhappy with the limits on AI text generation and I have heard that it's not that hard to do it on a laptop oneself. What is the best path forward?
  • I've been using GPT4All on my laptop and using mostly 7B models due to my RAM limitations and I am amazed how good some of them are.

    It's been really easy to use. There are models you can download from within the UI or you can get adventurous and download them from elsewhere, they just need to be in the .gguf format. I get most from TheBloke on hugging face.

    So far my favourite has been solar-10.7B-instruct-v1.0-uncensored, it has been astonishingly good.

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