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Something like Windows can't even keep it's cool on my lunar lake 32 GB laptop while NixOS with Niri works great on an 8GB guy

Me, I bloody well love optimizing and performance tuning software. And love "retro" hardware. I'm fully on board with this world of squeezing every last drop of juice out of older systems. It's fun.

I have a minion in a terminal grinding away optimizing CPU-only LLM inference on Dual Xeon E5s. Why? Because it's neat.

I'm ironically using AI to program an extra-lightweight 10-foot UI for an HTPC that's as underpower as one can be, and KDE Plasma BigScreen trashed it hard.

Reason being, a more powerful one would cost more than what I'm willing to pay (and, mostly, for fun and learning, which is priceless)