Perplexity Pro $17/month; perfect for this complete non-techie/normie. It appears after reading many comments that I'm the only person here using PP. How come?
I had installed ROCm (the AMD local LLM toolkit), and it turns out one of the tasks I wanted to do wouldn't work with my (somewhat older) video card. Llama.cpp had a dependency on HIP 6.1, but my hardware can only do HIP 5.7.
PP talked me through downloading the code from Github and running a command to remove everything newer than HIP 5.7 from the source code and then recompiling the whole thing.
It worked!
I am not a C programmer, but PP walked me through everything. It is astonishing. I'm old, so maybe I'm easily astonished, but man, PP has been superb at everything I've asked it to do.
Me too: I'm 78. Perhaps PP should advertise in the AARP monthly magazine.