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points by Ungh 17 hours ago | 0 comments
Well fuck.

Just dug my old Xeon workstation out of the cupboard and am installing Debian on it.

[–] ProllyInfamous 17 hours ago
My main desk has three Apple Silicons (two entirely airgapped, and am typing on third); sitting next to it is my beautiful 27" iMac (2009), with full Adobe CS4 (also offline); just purchased a pristine MacPro5,1 – seventeen year old computer! – for my main online Apple experience (using OS 10.14 from a decade ago), mostly because it cannot AI/LLM/Siri, even if it wanted to. Then I will have three offline Silicons.

Since the beginning of this year, I am now primarily running (online) a 9800X3D with a 5070Ti – Linux - which is only possible with LLM tutorials/help (mostly offline, on my own Silicon LLM).

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Happy restomodding!

[–] hod6654 1 hour ago
What about the security risks of running outdated OS and outdated software on a machine connected to the internet?