also running xlibre. no issues there either.

freebsd on thinkpad x1 extreme gen 1 works well. no issues with drivers. wifi, power saving, sleep, etc all good.

this age verification in the operating system is a non-starter for me. void linux team came out against it (although not as strongly as I would have liked). interesting watching the community split over this. its unfortunate that politics has hit our OS.

im getting back into FreeBSD. I used it a lot in the late 90s in my home labs but some how drifted away from it. my firewall runs pfsense (freebsd) and it has been rock solid for many years now. I have started reading through the freebsd handbook, which is quite refreshing how well structured it is. im excited about the potential of the combination of jails, jail networking and zfs. who knows I might even start contributing to the project if I can find the time. im looking for more connection with my tooling and a deeper understanding of the fundamentals. so much so that ive started to go deeper on c programming.

I went hard on AI coding there for a while and these are my observations: 1. its really easy to just click the dopamine button, but really hard to make sure the code going in is cogent. 2. AI code is almost impossible to maintain and the amount of subtle bugs increases at an unacceptable rate the more of it you put in 3. it makes me feel unsatisfied. It's satisfying in once sense in that you can get things done quickly, but you're left feeling empty and like you're getting dumber 4. it is a fantastic learning tool - ive decided to start handwriting code for projects I really care about - and using AI as a companion for brainstorming and learning (to a certain degree) is useful 5. it's really easy to produce a lot of stuff like new products, etc. but cognitively it's exhausting. 6. it's great for proof of concepts, mockups, failing fast type situations 7. its great for internal tooling 8. its great to offload those certain annoying tasks that you don't care so much about so you can focus on the creative things 9. it makes me feel scattered in my thinking 10. I don't want a job that involves 100% AI coding - I'd rather be handcrafting with some AI assistance. I want to feel the connection with what I am creating.

how much vram you running?

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gemma4 is pretty good, you enjoying?