Far out, man.

I love tools like this. Thank you for sharing.

ELI5?

I probably would not have noticed that. I’ll have to look into this some more. Thanks for all your help.

I wonder why ROCm 6.4 doesn’t support you, but ROCm 6.3 does.

Wait, where are you reading that 6.3 supports the 6950 XT? I dug up the System Requirements (Linux) page for 6.3 and it lists the same cards as the 6.4 page. Is there another document out there that covers this topic?

What card are you running on?

Thanks for the info—maybe I’ll give this another whirl when I have some more time.

Which card are you running on?

Update: I thought I’d report back on my progress. I tried installing GPT4All in distrobox containers, several different images (Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04, and Fedora 41), but in every case, the installation script fails due to missing dependencies. I can’t get to the installer GUI. Upon further investigation, it appears that GPT4All does not support Wayland. There is an open feature request from last year, but I’m not holding my breath. I did some cursory searches for workarounds, but couldn’t figure it out in the time I had available today.

[me@UbuntuTestingGpt4All ~]$ ./gpt4all-installer-linux.run 
./gpt4all-installer-linux.run: error while loading shared libraries: libxkbcommon-x11.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I wonder if I would have the same issue if I tried this while running an X session on the host machine. I’ll post another update if I test this scenario.

Anyway, thanks again for the tip.

Rats—according to their System Requirements (Linux) page, they don’t support Fedora. Even if I were to switch to a supported distro, it looks like only a small set of graphics cards are supported, and unfortunately, mine is not one of them. 😢

Supported graphics cards:

Supported operating systems:

Thanks anyway for the tip!

I’ll try installing non-flatpak GPT4All in a distrobox and see if I get a different result. Thanks for the idea.

Thanks for the tip about OpenWebUI. After watching this video about its features, I want to learn more.

Would you mind sharing a little bit about your setup? For example, do you have a home lab or do you just run OpenWebUI w/ Ollama on a spare laptop or something? I thought I saw some documentation suggesting that this stack can be run on any system, but I’m curious how other people run it in the real world. Thanks!

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?

I was about to ask, wasn’t Mullvad discontinued a few months ago? But I’m thinking of the Mull browser, right?

Should be.

One would think, but so you haven’t actually done it, have you? Because I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time. I couldn’t get the installer to show the USB drive. I really want to be wrong, though.

It’s possible to install Windows onto a USB? I ask b/c once in a blue moon I need a Windows install for mouse firmware updates or something.

No, no limits, we’ll reach for the skyyyy

Noice! I am able to find this very thread through searxng, which seems to behave like an actual search engine with its own search results page, but I couldn’t find it through fedi-search, which seems to be little more than an auto redirect tool.

https://fedi-search.com/

Hmm, this sounds like a really cool idea, but it doesn’t seem to do what I thought it would. For example, I went to https://fedi-search.com/ and searched for “stop internet searching” expecting to find this very thread, but alas, no dice.

I do this as well—I’m currently automating a repetitive workflow for work using python. What’s the latest project you’ve generated boilerplate code for?

So you’ll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it’ll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?