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Running your own AI coding assistant locally using ROCm, LLaMA C++, and Nanocoder. Why Local AI Coding? Cloud AI coding assistants are convenient, but local models offer: Better privacy Lower long-term cost Offline development Faster iteration for small/medium models Full control over models and tooling With modern AMD GPUs and ROCm support improving rapidly, Ubuntu 26.04 makes it surprisingly easy to run local coding models. In this guide, we'll set up: ...

I was a bit late in realizing that Ubuntu has been going downhill for a while. Why? Here are a couple of things I have noticed about Canonical/Ubuntu: Forced paid updates even for active life OS versions Series of bad decisions (Mir, Unity, Upstart, Snaps) causing pain all around Inflicting slow and buggy snap applications on their users. Not listening to feedback from users - Firefox Snap is really slow to launch, especially on older computers. ...