Yeahhh sorry 😕

I was fortunate to have bought my graphics card almost a year ago, and for a nice discount (a Black Friday sale, IIRC). I’d love to buy another, but they now cost >2x the price I paid.

FWIW, you can probably run it on CPU if you have enough RAM. I assume it will be really slow though.

Might also be worth trying Qwen3.6 35B-A3B. It’s not as “smart” as Qwen3.8 27B, but can be much faster on limited resources.

Just Qwen3.8-27B. That little model is surprisingly smart.

NixOS also gives you the ability to roll back to previous config versions. I have not needed to do that (yet), but it reduces some risk.

I’ve been using a local Qwen3.8 model as a NixOS sysadmin lately for a non-critical VPS. So far, it has been working surprisingly well! I guess it’s easier for AI agents to gather context when the whole system and apps are defined in code, and immutable when applied.

Seems like it would be better to just remove the flags

There was a surprising number of repos there when I last looked, and their blog seems to show signs of life, so I don’t think it’s vaporware (at least not yet). But yeah, not easily being able to browse repos from the home page definitely sucks.

FWIW, you can see some recent activity scroll by from right to left on the front page, near the top, right below the hero section. You can click them to view some users and repos (example: https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com).

That’s the only way I see from the front page though, which is not great :/

Huh… I’m not really sure. I know I was able to a while back, but now I don’t see how.

Maybe it requires login now. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a way to reduce AI traffic or something.

You might be interested in Tangled. Not sure if they’re stable yet though

That sounds like a lot. Is it more than a bajillion, or less?

He said that on Lemmy, an open source platform, hosted mostly (I assume) on Linux servers? Brilliant

My servers require manual unlock via SSH at boot. It has been great for years.

Anyone know if this affects GrapheneOS users? I can install GrapheneOS like 50x faster than it would take to understand what I’m legally binding myself to by signing the petition.

I genuinely appreciate the cause, but to sign this, I have to provide PII, agree to their terms of service and privacy policy, and get automatically opted-in to their mailing list that I’ll have to unsubscribe from later.

So to petition against this shitty tech stuff, I have to go through this other shitty tech stuff. It sucks how normalized this all has become.

Ah great. My Starlink hardware just arrived.

I wasn’t charged any high-demand surcharge though. I probably wouldn’t have ordered it if I had to pay one of those.

I don’t think my area will have high demand for Starlink anyway. Even their fastest options are slow. There are options for like 5-10x the speed around the same price in my area. The only downside: There’s like a 50% chance of lightning frying my modem each year, and it takes like a week to get a tech on site.

Starlink is a great backup connection. It’s cheap to just keep in standby mode (~$15/month, IIRC). An unexpected, heavy surcharge might be a deal breaker though

I’ve been pretty happy with Peergos

By verifying that they’re correct…? 🤔