Lemonade is pretty good, especially for AMD GPUs and the lazy, but it’s pretty opinionated (like ollama but not as toxic) and it’s not easy to directly control llama-server parameters. It feels a bit commercial / we want to IPO.

Seeing as you already have your parameters, llama-swap might be a better fit, lets you configure llama-server directly in a yaml, and switch between them. You can even have multiple versions of the same model (e.g. thinking or not, try out different parameters) and change without reloading.

Both work fine with e.g. Open WebUI and Pi (lemonade its own integration and llama-server needs an extension).

In general I agree, but I’d put any conspiracy higher than AI, that’s just the scam de jour. It would be more along the lines of making conditions favourable for the death of personal computing and other boot on the face of humanity goals. It’s also likely this is a fairly natural evolution of late stage capitalism with technology, no conspiracy needed.

In this case it’s making lots and lots of GPU datacenters, which after a bubble pop will be useful for making compute a subscription for the masses and processing shittons of video feeds for the surveillance state, and the odd bit of AI.

This is why I don’t make much of the ‘the chips will be obsolete by the time they’re turned on’ argument, compute is compute, max efficiency or not. Obsolescence might sink a few (or many) companies, but the centralized compute assets will remain and need repurposing. Way too many of those purposes are harmful to the 99%.

If it’s just a couple of books, Anna’s Archive has your back.

Weird I know, but IMO it’s best to hand curate books and music (I have comics not manga, but same deal there). Automated tools can quickly rack up more books than you’ll read in a lifetime, and enough new music to listen to for a decade fits in a TB (even mostly FLAC). The problem then becomes finding what to read / listen to next, which gets worse with size.

That said, having a large local nonfiction book / journal article library can be useful to grep through, especially given current internet search problems.

I’m starting to say vibe code is write only.

Like they used to say about Perl, indistinguishable from line noise.

Basically unmaintainable without super strict coding conventions, submitters taking personal responsibility, a strong, well thought out overarching architecture, and most importantly, someone with a great knowledge of the project to approve merges. Vibe coded forks to add one or two features have none of that.

This is why GitHub is littered with slop projects that haven’t been touched since they were made. This is why an ungodly amount of technical debt is accruing as managers with a hard on for lines of code or ‘features’ force devs to unwisely use AI coding tools all the time. There will be a reckoning, and it’s not far off.

And the anonymous internet gets another nail in the coffin. Endgame is every comment identifiable and legally (unlike state intelligence agencies) actionable against you, and the chilling effect that will have on free speech, communication, and organization.

Hail the rise of techno fascism, the entire internet will be facebook.

Can they not palm it off on the corpos to do for them? The states already have the identification apparatus, they should step up and provide age verification services. Meta and Steam do not need my photo ID, just that I’m over 18. If we can’t have freedom, at least minimize the harm.

Smartwatch: Garmin (Fenix 6 gen and above if you want sleep monitoring) with gadgetbridge on android (preferably GrapheneOS) and selfhosted Endurain. Seeing as this is c/Selfhosted you can also roll your own dashboards with Grafana.

You’re thinking Garmin, really? Privacy? Actually Garmin’s T&Cs are IMO the best of the big names privacy wise, especially if you’re in the EU, but they’re publicly traded and subject to the ‘I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further’ changing terms at their whim, or just getting bought out and drained dry.

You know what’s better than OK T&Cs? Not giving them any data at all. On gOS I can pull the network permissions for Garmin Connect and still use it to set up the watch, do custom activities and so forth. When finished disable it and enable GadgetBridge. If you want watch faces do that with Connect IQ and then uninstall. Without gOS it’s just a little clunkier, but GB will pull the files off the watch so that when you fire up Connect there’s not data to report. If you didn’t make an account there’s nowhere for it to go anyway.

There are other gadgetbridge compatible devices but none with the build quality, feature set and quality health data. It’s been running for GB for more than a year and they haven’t sicced their lawyers on it.

Also, given their spectacular battery lift (14-20 days or so without hammering music or GPS), 500 charges for the battery to decay takes 10 years+, so secondhand ones are good value. The battery can even be replaced fairly easily (4 screws and a bit of glue), although you might not want to go diving afterwards.

You can also just connect it via USB and use any software that handles GPX etc. files.

For privacy, probably better than Brax, worse than GrapheneOS at the moment. Should be possible to harden Jolla, but at the moment there’s no turnkey Linux phone that’s secure and privacy respecting of which I am aware. Fairphone 5/6 with PostmarketOS is coming along nicely as I understand, battery life notwithstanding.

Fair cop.

It’s a joke based on my username. Said by Shepard Book in the TV show Firefly.

There’s a special hell for these sorts.

Guess you learned, but the rules of backup are 3-2-1 with at least one offline (I count offline HDD as a different media type for 2, tape one day, maybe, seems painful), it’s not a real backup until you’ve restored from it and, RAID is not a backup.

I like the analogy of Arch is bleeding edge, fedora cutting edge. Did the Arch thing (and recommend it to learn, still use archwiki) now happy with ublue after a year or two of fedora. Guess I like stuff that just works.

X Doubt.

Much more likely due to market collapse than component prices, that’s an excuse. Still got mostly the same costs but no-ones buying thanks to SamA’s market cornering and NVIDIA only caring about the datacentre? You’re going to have to jack up prices to stay afloat, and only the rich or desperate will buy.

Their work mostly takes place in their minds, the computer is a glorified text editor.

Don’t understand the downvotes here, even just burying a HDD in a waterproof container in the backyard is way better than 99.9% of users with unencrypted files in OneDrive or iWhateverTheyCallIt. Offline backups are critical against accidental deletion among other things. Part of my 3-2-1 (not buried, just offline), I like old laptops with big SSDs, makes it self sufficient.

Yup, once you encrypt at home just chose the cheapest / most reliable (or use multiple) depending on taste off site storage. Trust is no longer an issue.

I’d like to see some sort of MergerFS for multiple offsites with varying redundancy levels, instead of my shell script.

Evolution gives no fucks. Well actually, only cares that copulation happens. Else is gravy,

Eh, just use what you have lying around. My first was my kiddos beat to shit school Thinkpad X230 (figured it was indestructible, wrong, but it still goes, so sorta, with dings, got 'em another cleaner one which still gets used long after school) renewed with Debian. (still a backup, much power saving virtue to laptops as home servers).

These days it’s just a bunch of podman services (that I can literally drag and drop) on immutable OSs across a few devices, some of which are on all the time (and low power, laptops with gluetun proxies, SearxNG, etc). Some higher power, Immich etc. on the desktop, with shit tons of storage (pre idiocy), that gets turned on for gaming weekly or yeah, local LLM experimentation. I get ppl wanting to play with local servers, more power (heh) to them, hope you’ve got solar and batteries.

Suppose I was just arguing against the justified purchase premise, or at least the less considered version. If all you have now is a phone, have at it. But consider old (especially business class) laptops. Who doesn’t love built in battery power supply and easy serviceability.

Good luck OP.