A desktop made for one
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A desktop made for one
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Re: A desktop made for one
#2Some screenies and the code at 0…
I struggle to understand why, though.
Re: A desktop made for one
#3Did OP write this by hand? It reads like language written by a human overfitted on GPT 4o or Claude.
Re: A desktop made for one
#4I’m inspired by the message.
On this software itself: I’d like to know how this feels to use. It’s so very lightweight. Does it feel categorically different to what we are used to?
One of the things I miss about the 1980s home computers is that they booted into a usable command line in a handful of seconds, from a few KB in ROM. Imagine what today’s HW could do if we’d retained that level of efficiency.
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#5I’m inspired by the message. On this software itself: I’d like to know how this feels to use. It’s so very lightweight. Does it feel categorically different to what we are used to? One of the things I miss about the 1980s home computers is that they booted into a usable command line in a handful of seconds, from a few KB in ROM. Imagine what today’s HW could do if we’d retained that level of efficiency.
we are there now. depending on boot loader/os combination, one can get to the sub 1-5 sec range, if its cli-only.
Re: A desktop made for one
#6Why did you choose to have Claude write it in assembly language?
There are big benefits to using a language that has good static analysis with LLMs.
Re: A desktop made for one
#7Why did you choose to have Claude write it in assembly language? There are big benefits to using a language that has good static analysis with LLMs.
seriously.... we already have a constellation of good deterministic tooling for taking a relatively high concept spec to low level assembly. what does an llm offer in generating optimized asm that rust wouldn't??
Re: A desktop made for one
#8Did OP write this by hand? It reads like language written by a human overfitted on GPT 4o or Claude.
If they basically generated a desktop for themselves, what’s the chance they didn’t generate the article? I think pretty slim.
Also, reading it is probably not the intended use. It’s probably: “Hey Claude, give me a TLDR of this”
Re: A desktop made for one
#9Did OP write this by hand? It reads like language written by a human overfitted on GPT 4o or Claude.
OP did this:
Prompted CC for all the points I wanted included (something like a 200 word prompt) and asked CC to draft it, including all the links added to the table I furnished. Then I edited the draft (about 50% then edited). Then asked CC to spellcheck and fixed the 5 it found.
Re: A desktop made for one
#10Why did you choose to have Claude write it in assembly language? There are big benefits to using a language that has good static analysis with LLMs.
seriously.... we already have a constellation of good deterministic tooling for taking a relatively high concept spec to low level assembly. what does an llm offer in generating optimized asm that rust wouldn't??
Less memory footprint. No reliance on libs. Pure first-person control. No wasted CPU cycles is the target here for me. And if you read the post, the asm set is only for the desktop itself. The tools I use are in Rust. Result is: Laptop now runs at between 5-6W (down from ~9W) [XPS14 latest hw] on Ubuntu 26.04 - giving me around 3.5h extra battery life.