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[@championswimmer](/creator/twitter/championswimmer)
"Okay what's the main benefits of Omarchy over Ubuntu Except mainly that the defaults are super opinionated as to how DHH loves to use his PC I need to install Linux on a computer I'll primarily use after around X years of being away from Linux"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1982572878467101040) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-26T22:19Z 70.6K followers, 8257 engagements


"I wrote a long thread in 2023 about how most popular western quick commerce apps (Deliveroo Delivery Hero Uber Eats Bolt) don't stack up well against the superior UX of Indian apps (Zomato Swiggy) or even GoJek. Fast forward to 2025 and we have overshot to enshittification now. Downloaded apps this time after almost a year in India. X. Swiggy family of apps has grown to more than half a dozen. Snacc Toing Instamart wtf is going on guys Hadn't you just merged Dineout into main app only few months back X. Zomato main app is getting very very confusing to use. Seems like some CRED product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1974491655760966071) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-04T15:07Z 70.6K followers, 33.9K engagements


"Holy smokes Even before this AI wave has found a proper PMF foothold we have "financialized" compute 😂 😂 What next We bundle them in Collaterized Flops Obligation and sell them in tranches cue: anthony-bourdain-seafood-stew.mp4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1979287610104107251) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-17T20:45Z 70.6K followers, 18.5K engagements


"What SF Compute is doing is a) genius b) if all works out a brilliant early play into finacialized wrapper of 'compute' as a commodity BUT. if you're at the point of creating basically "credit default swaps" for compute . 🫠"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1979289825099337896) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-17T20:54Z 70.6K followers, 1651 engagements


"@siddharth17 Where exactly has the graph dipped back down to pre Diwali levels Can you point that out to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1980529948025843783) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-21T07:01Z 70.6K followers, 1000 engagements


"After the NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) launch there are a bunch of OEM partners also making the same device I am a bit surprised where this pricing difference is coming from - these are all the exact same board (not just chip the entire board upto the exact same port locations)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981642466299134221) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-24T08:42Z 70.6K followers, 3200 engagements


"@rishabhm I think when you get to 1Pflop of FP8 performance coupled with a 600800gbps memory bandwidth and XXX to 512gb unified memory in mini PCs it'll truly unlock lots of AI video/photo use cases locally for media studios. The $10k Mac Studio comes close to those specs already"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981693104089678086) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-24T12:03Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"@striver_79 Showing from an already merged commit so it is not defaulting to a particular commit but this is the UI to check which revision to see. Also use the Github extension called Octotree it adds many more useful features on top of this (like only viewing certain files in diff)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1982140806203842863) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-25T17:42Z 70.6K followers, 11.5K engagements


"I would never ever touch AI's XX yr old Dreamliner business class with a XX foot pole. It is quite possible the worst business class experience in the world A BLR-BOM sector business class which is basically the Vistara cabin in X yr old planes - that's the best in domestic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1982280135043645665) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-26T02:56Z 70.6K followers, 19.8K engagements


"@dnlkwk @daniel_mac8 There is a gambling bubble in Las Vegas. Somehow hasn't popped for decades but I'm very sure it is a bubble"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983228073622245882) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T17:43Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"@yogesharma92 @Quest_seeker_ I don't carry liquids. But I carry lots of electronics. Never have to take it out in Europe except the absolutely tiny Ryanair type airports"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983248113071464489) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T19:02Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"@krampuu @sounak_08 That has happened in many other countries too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983249929763172661) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T19:10Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"Imagine you land in Bangalore from outside India. Let's connect to the airport wifi. Oh nice there are two of them. "BLR Free Wifi" - the name is self evident lets try. Oh no no captive portal. 😖 Ok PM WANI - whatever it might mean - lets try this too. "You need this special app access this" How to download said app without internet in the first place 🤯 Bonus: Even if BLR Free WiFi captive portal worked like before it would require OTP Bonus 2: The PM WANI app looks super sketchy with X bland screenshot and zero reviews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1977405190161805403) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-12T16:05Z 70.6K followers, 607.2K engagements


"ChatGPT released Atlas and everyone is saying Dia is dead. Ngl feeling a bit sad that no one is even mentioning Comet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1980713772818776381) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-21T19:12Z 70.6K followers, 11.5K engagements


"The biggest impact of AI-assisted coding (or vibe-coding as they call it but honestly most of this is Cursor/Copilot style completion and not Lovable type vibe coding) for me this year has been that despite moving to a new country joining a new company ramping up on to a totally new industry and domain at work and lots and lots of travel I was still able to build not just X or X but X different side projects And unlike many of my past side projects these are all fully made finished and polished products with landing pages production backend APIs fully designed frontend apps and running 24x7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1980775442480009654) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-21T23:17Z 70.6K followers, 11.7K engagements


"You can now just stare at an UPI QR code till your bill is paid. (Meta Ray Bans can scan the QR code and pay it via your Whatsapp UPI account) Try it next time when paying and see the shocked reaction of the shopkeepers 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981316908688216131) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-23T11:08Z 70.6K followers, 409K engagements


"Exactly my thoughts I love @comet by @AskPerplexity and I use it for a lot of things but I have not yet been able to trust it completely and move to it as my main browser (where I'm logged in to all accounts). Still on Firefox for that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981376518355079235) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-23T15:05Z 70.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Interestingly these are not priced competitively to any of the miniPCs that use the AMD Strix Halo AI Max XXX (yeah mouthful of a name). If you'll use it purely as a consumer of small local LLMs the performance is actually exactly same (GB10 vs 395)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981642890058121338) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-24T08:44Z 70.6K followers, 1048 engagements


"Well they do have a few tricks up their sleeve. X. It is exact same hardware stack as a GB200 - just less horsepower. So you can test things on GB10 and be sure it works on GB200 X. It has native FP4 support and on native FP4 it supports 1Pflop. But on INT8 or FP16 levels flops are similar to Strix 395"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981692546226024508) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-24T12:01Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"After looking around a bit I think I'll install Pop_OS XXXXX (it is still beta but almost RC ready) which has the COSMIC DE instead of GNOME. I remember having used Pop OS some time back as it came installed on a System76 laptop and it was good. Mostly Ubuntu + they had the default drivers configured well. Bonus: Cosmic is written in Rust and seems to be less bloated than Gnome. Also might be a good opportunity to try and work on some desktop apps. The Cosmic music player code looked like something I might like to contribute too 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1982739785761329610) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-27T09:22Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Vembu Uncle mansplaining medical science to a doctor. That too not just any doctor but a person renowned for being specialised on babies and vaccinations. 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983098617553662440) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T09:08Z 70.6K followers, 151.9K engagements


"A $500B company with a $250B liability to its majority shareholder The financial gymnastics of developing this mythical thing "AGI" - which no one knows exactly what it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983226245841060123) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T17:35Z 70.6K followers, 14.6K engagements


"@37utkarsh Have been able to keep electronics inside the bag in Berlin Amsterdam and Zurich so far. Havent gone to too many of the other cities by flight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983272521026940954) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T20:39Z 70.6K followers, 1308 engagements


"What a beautiful M2 NVME to USBC enclosure by UGREEN. Totally tool free there is a rubber plug instead of the screw to hold the SSD. Comes with a thermal pad to install. Push and click to open/close. UGREEN and Anker makes such classy products"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983289335379062806) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T21:46Z 70.6K followers, 12.9K engagements


"@tszzl False dichotomy. The some is XX% of their land including parts of Dhaka metropolitan area. Not sure that is a willing trade off The way I think though is - not like they alone can stop climate change without rest of the worlds help. Why not take the GDP upside instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983297349364638132) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T22:18Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Build quality internally is so good (Opened to install an extra SSD)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983322021594575199) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T23:56Z 70.6K followers, 33K engagements


"25% performance gap between Windows and Linux (Geekbench 6) Sigh. Wtf does Windows do hogging so much compute just at idle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983542391584763994) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-29T14:32Z 70.6K followers, 3834 engagements


"@sunnykgupta The UI difference isn't even all that much honestly. Ubuntu default UI has little to complain. Doesn't have some glass-like things in Windows UI but super clean UI otherwise pretty nice looking icons and the purple themed terminal is always 👌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983584357668307073) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-29T17:18Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Somehow the miniPC & local LLM influencer ciruit on YouTube are all early-retired millionaire tech uncles like Dave Plummer and Alex Ziskind and even DHH. Did GenZ kids never get into tinkering with running their local home servers thanks to Vercel culture or what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983603037097918492) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-29T18:33Z 70.6K followers, 1892 engagements


"There is some employee surveillance app called We360 whose founder is also Arnav Gupta. And trying to get "Arnav Gupta phone number/email" from the usual pay-for-contact-info websites turns up my contact info in place of his. And I keep getting emails and calls from the absolute horrible and bottom of the pile companies (that would easily rank in top XX toxic workplaces of India) to ask about quotes and demos of the product. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1981305561434976577) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-23T10:23Z 70.6K followers, 26.9K engagements


"@imYadav31 Wah fellow Samsung ecosystem enjoyer I see. "  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983106403939319866) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-28T09:39Z 70.6K followers, 1420 engagements


"@PrateekJayaswal For now my biggest use case is running local LLM models and it does run faster inference by 10-20% higher tok/sec on Linux than Windows. Maybe your definition of "perf sensitive code" is some very specific software that is optimised for Windows 🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983616495424045252) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-29T19:26Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements


"I see that the latest Cursor blog post about their LLM model Composer is extremely obscure. They do not mention what base model they RLed to get here. They do not reveal their benchmark/eval (calling it internal). The speed column of open models was blank too so I fixed it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/championswimmer/status/1983620186126348592) [@championswimmer](/creator/x/championswimmer) 2025-10-29T19:41Z 70.6K followers, 1474 engagements

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@championswimmer "Okay what's the main benefits of Omarchy over Ubuntu Except mainly that the defaults are super opinionated as to how DHH loves to use his PC I need to install Linux on a computer I'll primarily use after around X years of being away from Linux"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-26T22:19Z 70.6K followers, 8257 engagements

"I wrote a long thread in 2023 about how most popular western quick commerce apps (Deliveroo Delivery Hero Uber Eats Bolt) don't stack up well against the superior UX of Indian apps (Zomato Swiggy) or even GoJek. Fast forward to 2025 and we have overshot to enshittification now. Downloaded apps this time after almost a year in India. X. Swiggy family of apps has grown to more than half a dozen. Snacc Toing Instamart wtf is going on guys Hadn't you just merged Dineout into main app only few months back X. Zomato main app is getting very very confusing to use. Seems like some CRED product"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-04T15:07Z 70.6K followers, 33.9K engagements

"Holy smokes Even before this AI wave has found a proper PMF foothold we have "financialized" compute 😂 😂 What next We bundle them in Collaterized Flops Obligation and sell them in tranches cue: anthony-bourdain-seafood-stew.mp4"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-17T20:45Z 70.6K followers, 18.5K engagements

"What SF Compute is doing is a) genius b) if all works out a brilliant early play into finacialized wrapper of 'compute' as a commodity BUT. if you're at the point of creating basically "credit default swaps" for compute . 🫠"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-17T20:54Z 70.6K followers, 1651 engagements

"@siddharth17 Where exactly has the graph dipped back down to pre Diwali levels Can you point that out to me"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-21T07:01Z 70.6K followers, 1000 engagements

"After the NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) launch there are a bunch of OEM partners also making the same device I am a bit surprised where this pricing difference is coming from - these are all the exact same board (not just chip the entire board upto the exact same port locations)"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-24T08:42Z 70.6K followers, 3200 engagements

"@rishabhm I think when you get to 1Pflop of FP8 performance coupled with a 600800gbps memory bandwidth and XXX to 512gb unified memory in mini PCs it'll truly unlock lots of AI video/photo use cases locally for media studios. The $10k Mac Studio comes close to those specs already"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-24T12:03Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"@striver_79 Showing from an already merged commit so it is not defaulting to a particular commit but this is the UI to check which revision to see. Also use the Github extension called Octotree it adds many more useful features on top of this (like only viewing certain files in diff)"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-25T17:42Z 70.6K followers, 11.5K engagements

"I would never ever touch AI's XX yr old Dreamliner business class with a XX foot pole. It is quite possible the worst business class experience in the world A BLR-BOM sector business class which is basically the Vistara cabin in X yr old planes - that's the best in domestic"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-26T02:56Z 70.6K followers, 19.8K engagements

"@dnlkwk @daniel_mac8 There is a gambling bubble in Las Vegas. Somehow hasn't popped for decades but I'm very sure it is a bubble"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T17:43Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"@yogesharma92 @Quest_seeker_ I don't carry liquids. But I carry lots of electronics. Never have to take it out in Europe except the absolutely tiny Ryanair type airports"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T19:02Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"@krampuu @sounak_08 That has happened in many other countries too"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T19:10Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"Imagine you land in Bangalore from outside India. Let's connect to the airport wifi. Oh nice there are two of them. "BLR Free Wifi" - the name is self evident lets try. Oh no no captive portal. 😖 Ok PM WANI - whatever it might mean - lets try this too. "You need this special app access this" How to download said app without internet in the first place 🤯 Bonus: Even if BLR Free WiFi captive portal worked like before it would require OTP Bonus 2: The PM WANI app looks super sketchy with X bland screenshot and zero reviews"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-12T16:05Z 70.6K followers, 607.2K engagements

"ChatGPT released Atlas and everyone is saying Dia is dead. Ngl feeling a bit sad that no one is even mentioning Comet"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-21T19:12Z 70.6K followers, 11.5K engagements

"The biggest impact of AI-assisted coding (or vibe-coding as they call it but honestly most of this is Cursor/Copilot style completion and not Lovable type vibe coding) for me this year has been that despite moving to a new country joining a new company ramping up on to a totally new industry and domain at work and lots and lots of travel I was still able to build not just X or X but X different side projects And unlike many of my past side projects these are all fully made finished and polished products with landing pages production backend APIs fully designed frontend apps and running 24x7"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-21T23:17Z 70.6K followers, 11.7K engagements

"You can now just stare at an UPI QR code till your bill is paid. (Meta Ray Bans can scan the QR code and pay it via your Whatsapp UPI account) Try it next time when paying and see the shocked reaction of the shopkeepers 😅"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-23T11:08Z 70.6K followers, 409K engagements

"Exactly my thoughts I love @comet by @AskPerplexity and I use it for a lot of things but I have not yet been able to trust it completely and move to it as my main browser (where I'm logged in to all accounts). Still on Firefox for that"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-23T15:05Z 70.6K followers, 17.3K engagements

"Interestingly these are not priced competitively to any of the miniPCs that use the AMD Strix Halo AI Max XXX (yeah mouthful of a name). If you'll use it purely as a consumer of small local LLMs the performance is actually exactly same (GB10 vs 395)"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-24T08:44Z 70.6K followers, 1048 engagements

"Well they do have a few tricks up their sleeve. X. It is exact same hardware stack as a GB200 - just less horsepower. So you can test things on GB10 and be sure it works on GB200 X. It has native FP4 support and on native FP4 it supports 1Pflop. But on INT8 or FP16 levels flops are similar to Strix 395"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-24T12:01Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"After looking around a bit I think I'll install Pop_OS XXXXX (it is still beta but almost RC ready) which has the COSMIC DE instead of GNOME. I remember having used Pop OS some time back as it came installed on a System76 laptop and it was good. Mostly Ubuntu + they had the default drivers configured well. Bonus: Cosmic is written in Rust and seems to be less bloated than Gnome. Also might be a good opportunity to try and work on some desktop apps. The Cosmic music player code looked like something I might like to contribute too 🤔"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-27T09:22Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Vembu Uncle mansplaining medical science to a doctor. That too not just any doctor but a person renowned for being specialised on babies and vaccinations. 🤣"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T09:08Z 70.6K followers, 151.9K engagements

"A $500B company with a $250B liability to its majority shareholder The financial gymnastics of developing this mythical thing "AGI" - which no one knows exactly what it is"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T17:35Z 70.6K followers, 14.6K engagements

"@37utkarsh Have been able to keep electronics inside the bag in Berlin Amsterdam and Zurich so far. Havent gone to too many of the other cities by flight"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T20:39Z 70.6K followers, 1308 engagements

"What a beautiful M2 NVME to USBC enclosure by UGREEN. Totally tool free there is a rubber plug instead of the screw to hold the SSD. Comes with a thermal pad to install. Push and click to open/close. UGREEN and Anker makes such classy products"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T21:46Z 70.6K followers, 12.9K engagements

"@tszzl False dichotomy. The some is XX% of their land including parts of Dhaka metropolitan area. Not sure that is a willing trade off The way I think though is - not like they alone can stop climate change without rest of the worlds help. Why not take the GDP upside instead"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T22:18Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Build quality internally is so good (Opened to install an extra SSD)"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T23:56Z 70.6K followers, 33K engagements

"25% performance gap between Windows and Linux (Geekbench 6) Sigh. Wtf does Windows do hogging so much compute just at idle"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-29T14:32Z 70.6K followers, 3834 engagements

"@sunnykgupta The UI difference isn't even all that much honestly. Ubuntu default UI has little to complain. Doesn't have some glass-like things in Windows UI but super clean UI otherwise pretty nice looking icons and the purple themed terminal is always 👌"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-29T17:18Z 70.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Somehow the miniPC & local LLM influencer ciruit on YouTube are all early-retired millionaire tech uncles like Dave Plummer and Alex Ziskind and even DHH. Did GenZ kids never get into tinkering with running their local home servers thanks to Vercel culture or what"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-29T18:33Z 70.6K followers, 1892 engagements

"There is some employee surveillance app called We360 whose founder is also Arnav Gupta. And trying to get "Arnav Gupta phone number/email" from the usual pay-for-contact-info websites turns up my contact info in place of his. And I keep getting emails and calls from the absolute horrible and bottom of the pile companies (that would easily rank in top XX toxic workplaces of India) to ask about quotes and demos of the product. 😭"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-23T10:23Z 70.6K followers, 26.9K engagements

"@imYadav31 Wah fellow Samsung ecosystem enjoyer I see. "
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-28T09:39Z 70.6K followers, 1420 engagements

"@PrateekJayaswal For now my biggest use case is running local LLM models and it does run faster inference by 10-20% higher tok/sec on Linux than Windows. Maybe your definition of "perf sensitive code" is some very specific software that is optimised for Windows 🤷♂"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-29T19:26Z 70.6K followers, XX engagements

"I see that the latest Cursor blog post about their LLM model Composer is extremely obscure. They do not mention what base model they RLed to get here. They do not reveal their benchmark/eval (calling it internal). The speed column of open models was blank too so I fixed it"
X Link @championswimmer 2025-10-29T19:41Z 70.6K followers, 1474 engagements

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