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Playing with AI - Pt. 2 and some Beaglebone Black fun

So I did continue playing with AI and got local GPT4All installation on my new lenovo ideapad 3. Before that I did one thing I had been dreading. I got rid of partition 2. Emptied it and deleted it, and then expanded Partition 1 into that area. This was needed because my WSL installation has been swelling up and up and I really needed more space in C: drive. And managing junk in 100GB had become a chore. Anyway after doing this, now I'm seeing regular hangups and issues with volume-mgr. So there's some negative effect, but screw it. I played around with GTP4All and found it to be a good enough solution for local offline AI. Unfortunately I don't have any use case for such a thing. I tried to configure it as an agent in Visual Studio Code and things just would not work. There were errors, documentation said one thing and another happened at runtime, and there were issues. So I gave up after some time. So yeah tools like Cursor which give you an amazingly well-...