Qwen3 also doesn't work because I'm using the ipex llm docker container which has ollama 5.8 or something. It doesn't matter now because I have taken the test I was practicing for since posting this. Playing with qwen3 on CPU, it seems good but the reasoning feels like most open reasoning models where it gets the right answer then goes "wait that's not right..."
Unfortunately I can't run qwen3 with intel either. I'm just doing gemma3:12b on CPU for now. I might try qwq as I think it runs on older ollama versions.
I feel like one of the more important things to take away from this is the wildly different degrees to which various students use ai. Yes, 90% may use it, but there is a huge difference between "check following paper for grammar errors: ..." and "write me a paper on the ethics of generative AI," though an argument could be made that both are cheating. But there are things like "explain Taylor series to me in an intuitive way." Like someone else here pointed out, a 1-2 minute conversation would be a very easy way for professors to find people who cheated. There seems to be a more common view (I see it a LOT on Lemmy) that all AI is completely evil and anything with a neural network is made by Satan. Nuance exists.
It's obfuscated but not officially blocked. Their site is asahilinux.org. It's not worth getting a macbook for yet imo , but it's still super impressive, especially the graphics drivers. There are issues with Mac's built in security stuff but that just means the fingerprint reader and probably some other stuff doesn't work.
An interesting way that I don't know of being implemented is a donation system where you donate to a feature request / issue and whoever implements / patches it gets it, and a "tax" so that some percentage of every donation can go to maintenance, server costs, etc.
Let's talk about privacy, just not any private operating systems because there's a sub for that, or laws that threaten privacy because there's a sub for that, or any corporations that try to take away people's privacy because there's a sub for that, or our opinions on the concept of privacy because there's a sub for that so... privacy is, uh, not having people see what you're doing kinda.
I use airvpn with an always on server setup, port forwarding, and constant seeding. If you're okay with manually using a wireguard or openvpn client instead of an airvpn specific client it works great.
Edit Plus, they have a progressive pricing thing that lets you buy a few days for like 2€ just to test stuff.
Eh, I sometimes spin up a temporary docker container for some nonsense on a separate computer. I usually just go for it after checking no one is on and backing up necessary data.
If you're just worried about people you live with and passive scan type stuff I'd do a LUKS flash drive and a txt file. If you are worried about more active stuff from 3 letters then I still think digital is going to be the best bet, but you'd better use qubes or even dedicate an airgapped computer with an encrypted drive but even that is iffy for a serious anti gov threat model.
My opinion generally aligns with those who are saying to talk with them so they have a better understanding and don't try to be overly strict with parental controls and such.
What I do want to add and don't see in other comments is that if you want tracking software, you can set up fmd locator. It uses contact whitelisting so if they get a specific text from a whitelisted contact it will automatically text back their location. It isn't for the use case of constant tracking to see if they're sneaking out or whatever but if you want something that's more trust based location sharing.
No. Lubuntu is designed to use very little resources which makes it faster on slow hardware where the os is a lot of the load. If you have fast hardware, regular Ubuntu might use (making this up but the point generally stands) 2%CPU and 3G of RAM and lubuntu would use 1%CPU and 2G of RAM. That would be a much larger boost if you have a much weaker CPU and only 4G of RAM, but you likely wouldn't notice a difference on fast hardware.
It's down for me.