Posts from 16 minutes and 2 days ago here. Maybe your instance is not federating with theirs.

Yes, were all on c/LocalLLaMa

I’m running qwen3.8-next-flash on a rx7900xtx plus 128gb of ram. It serves my hermes agent. I direct it through matrix. I also forward an endpoint to my VPS to use for anything. Mostly opencode.

My VPS gets a weekly rsync to my home server. I keep ten deduplicated copies for weeks gone by. The current week also gets synced off-site with encryption.

I have a VPS running nginx and wireguard. I just forward whatever subdomains to my home server over wireguard.

I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.

Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.

I mostly check if my SIL is watching anything before rebooting & updating. Otherwise my wife will stick her head in two minutes later to ask if jellyfin is down.

I have the memory of a goldfish with poor memory. I can’t recall any other big breaks in the last 20. I’m sure there’s been some since, but trivial enough to fix and forget about.

It happened once in the last ten years (thanks Nvidia). But I just rolled back to my previous btrfs snapshot and kept on computing until it was fixed a day or two later.

But forced breaking updates the first Tuesday of every month sounds like a really bad user experience.

Things were different back in the 90s before loadable kernel modules. Online updates weren’t much of a thing, either. You’d just install that new slackware release over your old root partition anyway.

I’ve been living in Linux-land for the last 30 years, and I’ve never really believed my wife when she says that updates just break things and tries to avoid them to no end.

Why does Microsoft do that? It seems like it would be bad for business.

I have a bit more memory, so I jump between the two qwen 3.8s.

Glimmer muse was a good contender in the MoE space for a few days. Might be more viable on 8gb.

I try most models, that get support in llama.cpp or forks. IIRC I wasn’t overly impressed with this one. Slower than it should be, mostly because its KV cache is huge.

I have hardware is the generation you’re thinking of. A T480 with intel and an Nvidia mx150. There’s been a few options, but at the end of the day those Nvidia drivers are the weak spot.

I’ve been running the intel chip exclusively for at least a couple of years. I don’t do gaming and that mx150 is lacking by modern standards. I use primecontrol to toggle between the integrated/dedicated/Optimus modes.

It was doomed from the start. The intel chip is the one driving the screen, so whatever the mx150 does need to be copied over to that framebuffer on an already saturated bus.

I can’t recall where I got them. Probably the cheapest stuff off of eBay or Amazon. Looks like adafruit has one, too.

The original remote for my Panasonic units sends all the settings over IrDA, so I only had to record and replay the commands to turn it on and off.

The only internet-connected 32-bit device I own is a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS. I have an OG raspberry pi that controls a model lighthouse that we have for decoration.

In my old house I had two pi zero W:s with IR-HATs that turned on the air conditioning when they saw my phone nearby over Bluetooth. I’d still run those if I lived there.

No, well I do the first mount over sshfs, then wrap EncFS because I don’t trust hetzner with my unencrypted data. rsync just makes sure I only copy whatever files changed since last run to keep traffic at a minimum.

I’ve gone up one size. 5TB for 10,90€.

Weekly cronjob that mounts the storage box, an EncFS volume and rsyncs my files.

This.

However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.

To be fair, I’ve kept my previous computer around, too. So I’ve been enjoying doom on the VIC-20 for the last 16 years already.

I knew it wasn’t worth upgrading my computer just to play doom.

I’ve heard they shut down domains for no reason and without appeal process.