Haha fair enough. Fixing it after the fact basically requires a second server of equal or greater storage. I fear a rebuild on my 16tb disks.

Yes, I have a desktop with a radeon 9700 ai pro with 32GB of VRAM. Its more than doubled since I bought it but its basically a down clocked 9070xt with double the VRAM. I also have a little arc b50 in my server.

Mostly yeah use it for privacy reasons. I run llama.CPP directly and access via open webui. I host a searx instance for it to use as web search. Mostly run qwen3.6/3.8 or gemma4 on the radeon and almost exclusively gptoss 20b on the B50 along with a second small model for tags and titles in open webui. Yeah I just use it mostly as a basic chatbot or as an agent in obsidian using the engram plugin. Helps search and summarize years of notes and works pretty well.

I’ve tried to use it as a coding assistant in zed without much luck so usually just post my code into open webui for feedback and it works alot better for me.

Yeah I can access it with other machines on my network including phone with conduit app. I can get to it on the go by connecting to home network with wireguard and sending a magic packet to wakeup desktop.

I havent done any image gen nor have much use for it outside of maybe using it to make app icons in the style of papirus icons for programs they don’t and won’t support.

It definitely feels more comprable to first ai wave than current frontier models but the privacy and price trade off is worth it to me. I’d say using it in obsidian has been the best use of it so far and one I certainly wouldn’t trust to an external AI.

Raid z1 with 10 14tb disks? That’s a bold move cotton, let’s see how it plays out.

Omarchy is toe shoes.

In this economy?!

I get that gnome is quite inflexible in multi monitor mode but doesn’t bother me since second my screen is usually static and I just swap around the main workspace. Tiling extension just helps me organize them. The point was the market on tiling wm seems pretty saturated why even deal with a problematic one.

Cool story bro. Wasn’t trying to be cool and edgy by liking something as innocuous as a DE. Unlike insulting someone over their choice of DE or WM.

You can just get a tiling extension for GNOME and it just works, or use sway or i3 there’s no reason for hyprland to exist.

I got a little fanless atom PC from work that was being tossed because it “didn’t work.” It did work you would just have to apply pressure to it before boot because the CPU must have been coming unsoldered. I just stuck it on the bottom of like 30 pounds of gear and never had a problem.

I know I bought 96GB of ecc ram last summer for ~$500. Seemed expensive at the time but it looked like prices were going up so I decided to over buy. I’d also never bought ecc before so I wasn’t sure if that was over paying. That same kit is over $4k today if you can find it…

I think I’ve gone over 64 GB only a handful of times. Mostly when adding a ton of pics to immich or documents to paperless-ngx. I keep adding more services though so I’ll get some more utilization out of it.

Man I found a 32 GB lpcamm2 module for like 250 when I pre ordered a framework in April. It was cheaper than sodimms at the time. I’ve kept an eye on it since then and it went to over 400 before disappearing from amazon entirely.

The OG flopped because there just weren’t enough Linux ports and there was no proton. Makes sense to try again with the success of the steak deck and proton being as good as it is now. MS and Sony shitting the bed doesn’t hurt either.

Hmm. Well I have classic pebbles that have been in service for 10 years so they should be pretty robust. I had an original time round have issues but I can’t remember what, it was close to the end of pebble and at the time support was great. They couldn’t let on what was happening but pretty much said send the broken one back today and we will send a new one. The replacement still works.

Its fucking impossible to get new kids to read the manual. They just resort to asking others for stuff they could look up. When I was new I asked the old timers as a last resort. Not because they’d be mean about it, but because I know I wouldn’t learn as well just being handed information.