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Surely this won’t go wrong at all

This… this is the reasonable course that’s shunned by our divisive culture nowadays. I personally don’t have the time or the space, but I do have a computer, so I use what tools I have. Local models ftw

I mean, game modding where you put x game’s y asset in z game is 99 percent plagerism and copyright infringement to begin with, regardless of how you do it. Unless you make something wholly original, you’re technically illegal, and even then, in the USA, there’s the DMCA, where breaking, bypassing, or reverse engineering any encryption is itself illegal.

If it has Steven Hawking voice, I can hear the chaos in traffic

Explains a lot about how/why Grok leans the way it does

Virt-manager for a gui, qemu-kvm and libvirtd for the hypervisor. You will need to pass thru a graphics card, which makes it unavailable for the host machine entirely. I use debian stable for the vm, no gui, just ssh to manage it.

Ollama, Open WebUI, and Qwen, or one of the edits of it. The latest Qwen 26B is in a very good delta of smart enough to know how to help with stuff (I use it as a second opinion/initial proofread code checker) and small enough to run on a macbook or a gaming pc, and Open WebUI is the self host ChatGPT-like interface that works with Ollama, the turn key ai model runner backend. Couple that with your own searxng instance self hosted to give it the ability to search the web for answers if you want to give it that. Run it all in a virtual machine, of course.

For media content, wan2gp (wan2 for the gpu poor) has an all in one stop shop for self hosted audio, image, and video. Just beware people don’t like generated stuff in prod, but its useful for quick concepts, or to do certain types of edits of existing stuff.

There’s also tts and speech recognition via the whisper models, which sounds a lot better than the speak and spell voices from the past (unless you enjoy the degeneracy of spamming JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN in the Steven Hawking voice) and can transcribe words a lot faster (realtime) and more accurately than in the past. The best ones run via Vulkan and thus work on any card that supports Vulkan.

If you run Nextcloud, you can also connect Ollama to it to get the Nextcloud AI working.

All that R&D, and they need to squeeze efficiency out more at this stage. Faster and more specialized is better than big chingus do everything, and means we can hopefully stop spending all that money on making more datacenters.

Personally, I don’t use the big chingus models at all… I much prefer local gen if I use it for things. Much better privacy that way, and I’m not throwing money at these jokers.

Ah, yes, the month for edgy emo rock

Subaru definitely uses the same hardware, but I know their software is different. Even the PCM performs very differently on the dinosaurs, even though they use the same Denso computers as Toyotas - just look into how aggressively Subarus fast idle when cold for an example… how many cars do you know of are programmed to hit fast idle come hell or high water? Most cars will cancel fast idle if you engage a gear, or limit the fast idle throttle, but the Subaru will send it if you try to keep the RPM below fast idle when cold. Also the “clear flood start” feature that deliberately doesn’t fire the injectors when you put your foot to the floor when starting the engine.

The standard should be an A/B partition system, lile a lot of phones do. Flash B while booted to A, or Flash A when booted to B. If a flash fails, you can still boot the previous firmware.

Put your hands down, I know about security. The point is after the flash is successfully booted on the new firmware, it can be copied to the other partition to eliminate a regressive boot to old firmware.

Interesting to see Subaru at the very bottom - barely anything, but Toyota is the opposite, sucking up big data like they’re General Motors

Edit: can confirm my car isn’t doing anything - when I upgraded my head unit, I discovered unconnected wires where a telemetry module would be

WHO USES THEIR PHONE IN THE SHOWER

This is the real tragedy of the modern data center. In the rush to be number one, they’ve captured the government at the top and use their influence to bypass environmental regulation and pollute at a grand scale just to save a dollar and some construction time. We could have had datacenters running on solar+batteries that could easily make money powering the grid as well, but no, we need to feed the oil machine and we let them run burner turbines unregulated. We could have had datacenters running closed-loop cooling, but no, we let them draw water directly for their cooling systems and dump it unfiltered back into the environment, further polluting it with heavy metals.

As long as one man desires to have more riches than another, this will never be solveable, I’m afraid. The shame.

One setup is like this for me… And the answer is stupid but it works. Apart from using Unifi dish antennas, it was using outdoor self-bury cable and a series of self-powering outdoor PoE repeaters. Bury the whole thing and you can get Ethernet out there no problem. All you need is enough power via a PoE switch or injector to power the chain.

Definitely Timberborn then

Timberborn definitely. Also, Factorio, which has a better balance of simplicity, complexity, and interface automation than Satisfactory or Mindustry, as well as a different goal. Also mods lmao

That is exactly what we are doing in the upper end of that efficiency range (turbochargers, turbine generators, heater cores) - the waste heat from that is unharvestable (exhaust gas, engine core heat).

So, instead of Chinese robot slavery, buy from American or Mexican human slavery?