Debian and Proxmox, which is also Debian

Jeff Geerling has some videos on locally hosting AI models, but as always, YMMV. Don't expect Claude with such systems.

I was wondering about this. I got an update notification on my old iPad Pro - and that thing hasn't seen an update in years. Thankfully, I only use it to remote in to other machines, so it's not super critical.

Ah, Apple. STILL screwing people over on RAM and storage after all these years.

No, 8GB is not nearly enough. 16GB is the absolute floor for anything that isn't an embedded machine, and even that is starting to cause problems. That said, it does look like a decent machine overall.

I'm still rocking a 2011 MBP. With an SSD and maxed out RAM, it still does almost everything I need it to do - except run the current MacOS.