Miscellaneous

This is a short guide to getting Ollama working with an AMD GPU on a Fedora 42 Kinoite system. In practice, the methods discussed should work on any Fedora 42 immutable variant, including but not limited to Fedora 42 Silverblue. When attempting to install ROCm on Fedora 42 Kinoite (I’ll be referring to this as F42K from now on), I encountered several issues: The installation guide for ROCm does not include a Fedora version. Attempting to install the RHEL version leads to an error message stating it does not support the current distribution. Fedora packages does have a rocm meta package, however, it is currently only supported on Rawhide or EPEL 10.1 (which isn’t recommended on Fedora systems). Rebasing from F42K to Fedora Kinoite Rawhide is not feasible due to some layered packages having dependency issues due to missing packages in the Rawhide package repository. Therefore, we need a workaround for installing ROCm: containers! ...

From my post about my digital setup, I wanted to quickly write a small post about getting nushell and starship working in an Alpine Linux Toolbx container. So, the problem is that Alpine Linux uses the musl C library instead of glibc. This causes a compatibility problem when running Rust programs that were compiled on the main system within the Alpine Linux container. In addition, the PATH environment variable is inherited from the host system due to how Toolbx works. ...

If you haven’t already checked out the about site page, please read it first for some context. Attempt 1: Wordpress Link to Wordpress. When one usually looks to create a website as a complete newbie to the web development space, the first results usually tend to be either website services like Squarespace or Wix, or Wordpress (the open source web content management system, not the hosting service). Squarespace and Wix felt a little bit restrictive in terms of what type of content I could create with it, which made me attempt to work with Wordpress. ...

All the behind-the-scenes work of the "A Guide to 3D Printing" bundle.

About my experience of going on an exchange semester at the National University of Singapore for the 2nd semester of the 2023/2024 academic year.