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+Document: WM-066                                                 P. Webb
+Category: LLM                                                 2025.03.27
+
+                          Spitball with Claude
+
+Abstract
+
+   LLMs are fun for idea validation
+
+Body
+
+   One of my favorite things to do these days is to take half‑formed
+   thoughts/ideas to Claude[1] (my LLM of choice) and use its responses
+   to gain better understanding about whatever. If you've been following
+   me online for awhile, you know that I am OBSESSED with the modular
+   Jonathan Computer[2], a concept from Apple created in the 1980s that
+   was never officially released. It was definitely ahead of its time.
+   It could run Mac *and* DOS software!! Anyhoo, it's currently 2025 and
+   I believe there's a wide open market for such a thing.
+
+   Amongst tech‑minded folks the general consensus around computing
+   seems to be:
+
+   - Windows is _terrible_ and Microsoft is intent on making it worse
+   - macOS is buggy enough to be a problem and boy, it sure would be
+     great if we had a Snow Leopard‑esque release (no new features, just
+     bug fixes)
+   - Linux lacks suitable replacements for what I do on Windows/macOS
+
+   You know what I'm suggesting (applicable XKCD here[3]): let's make a
+   new thing!
+
+   But before that, let's get into Desktop Neo[4], the OS interface I'm
+   also obsessed with. The concept was made by Lennart Ziburski in 2016
+   under the CC Attribution 4.0 license. If you've seen my homepage,
+   it's clearly been inspired by it. The tiles in Desktop Neo are
+   application/system windows and the entire UI scrolls horizontally. I
+   think that's pretty cool. The only issue I see with it is…how do I
+   code within this new paradigm? I currently just tab switch between my
+   text editor, terminal, and browser so I guess my tabbing would just
+   scroll the UI? Or maybe it'd be like using Spaces[5] on macOS. I
+   currently keep my mail app in fullscreen to the left space, my social
+   apps to the right space, and everything else in the center (main
+   space). I guess I answered my question.
+
+   Anyhoo! I asked my AI buddy to meld the two concepts of hardware and
+   software into something I'd pay **stupid** amounts of money for. The
+   name Claude gave it? Neo Jonathan. Not bad, but I prefer **system¹**
+   (I registered `system1.computer` as well because why not?). I won't
+   bore you with the 3000 words of our convo thus far, have some
+   highlights instead.
+
+   Creating an operating system from scratch is a monumental task, even
+   for people who have decades of experience writing low‑level code.
+   Instead, it's better to build upon what already exists, like Linux.
+   With that in mind, a customized Linux distro with a minimal kernel
+   config should be the base upon which the desktop interface (written
+   in Tauri) would launch. The boot process overview is thus:
+
+   1. **Initial Boot**: Fast Linux kernel boot (optimized to <3 seconds)
+   2. **Minimal Init**: Loads only essential services
+   3. **Display Server**: Lightweight Wayland compositor starts
+   4. **Application Launch**: Your Tauri application
+      launches automatically
+   5. **Complete Environment**: User sees and interacts with the
+      Neo interface
+
+   The trick is making this process invisible to the user and this
+   should be doable via extensive tweaking of the boot process.
+   Alpine[6], Void[7], and Debian Minimal are the Linux distros Claude
+   recommended for testing.
+
+   As for hardware, my only requirement is that the OS is able to run on
+   the most capable Raspberry Pi 5[8]. It supports PCI express (which
+   means you can attach super‑fast SSDs to it) and the best
+   configuration comes with 16GB RAM. Good enough, I think? I grew up
+   with less in the early 2000s!
+
+   So cool, you can run this on a RasPi. As I sit in front of a Mac
+   Studio and Apple Display, I cannot help but imagine this Neo Jonathan
+   sitting on my desk. A few NAS drives, two or three operating systems
+   to swap between, a cellular modem? Floppy/MiniDisc drives? Idk, what
+   else would you snap into your deck? Your own LLM, perhaps?
+
+   Framework Computer[9] proves that having an open platform is not only
+   possible, it's profitable. System76[10] sells hardware and maintains
+   Pop!_OS[11]. In a world of services and apparent obsession with
+   "customer sat" (hi, Tim Apple), the actual **quality** of what we're
+   given is hella lacking.
+
+   I'd love to end this "Spitball with Claude" with an announcment like,
+   "Good news! This idea has been funded by Sequoia, Paradigm, and angel
+   investors who believe in a better computing future, blah blah." Sorry
+   to disappoint you, I didn't graduate from Stanford, I know no one in
+   Y Combinator, and I don't play golf or whatever tech CEOs do
+   these days.
+
+   I am powered by delulu and a tireless LLM that validates my
+   wild ideas.
+
+   🕸️
+
+   2025.04.17 EDIT: Someone DM'd me about an issue the Vivaldi browser
+   has with my homepage and ended it with a request to not use our convo
+   within an LLM, based on my enthusiasm in this blog post and I gotta
+   ask…WTF do y'all be on? I understand the inherent distrust around the
+   training of LLMs but why would I use my online communications
+   VERBATIM as training fodder? I need y'all to relax and take off the
+   tinfoil hat to let your brain breathe. Good grief.
+
+References
+
+   [1]  <https://claude.ai>
+   [2]  <https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept>
+   [3]  <https://xkcd.com/927>
+   [4]  <https://desktopneo.com>
+   [5]  <https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-in-multiple-spaces-mh14112/mac>
+   [6]  <https://www.alpinelinux.org>
+   [7]  <https://voidlinux.org>
+   [8]  <https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5>
+   [9]  <https://frame.work>
+   [10] <https://system76.com>
+   [11] <https://system76.com/pop>