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by duffyjp 3mo ago
In 2024 I bought a used (2021 era) Dell for $400 to use as my home server. Just the ram that it came with now routinely goes for $600 or more. I'd sell it, but then I wouldn't have a server... I did end up selling my best GPU, a
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by duffyjp 4mo ago
I'm setting up a Frankenstein system at the moment. It's a Chinese DDR3 X99 motherboard with a 12 core Xeon v3, 32gb 1866MT/s ram, and a 1080 Ti. I'm shoehorning it back in the Optiplex that donated the ram, so it'
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by duffyjp 4mo ago
I won't speak for cafkafk, but I have two E5 (v3/v4) systems one on DDR4 and one on DDR3. This generation of CPU all support DDR4, but a few skus do support DDR3 also. ChatGPT told me they were niche products to meet specific cu
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by duffyjp 6mo ago
I still don't think I understand it. I saw those nvfp4 models up by chance yesterday and tried them on my Linux PC with a 5060TI 16gb. Ollama refused to pull them saying they were macOS only. I assumed it was a meta-data bug and post
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
I'd really like to be a drop in that bucket, but as an nvidia owner it's rough. You take a sizable performance hit and general stability is awful. In Linux I can't turn off my monitor on nvidia, or there's a ~80% chanc
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
I don't know if it's me, but right now nvidia on Linux is the least stable it's ever been. I have two desktops, one dedicated Linux box and one I dual boot. On the Linux only one I bought a dirt cheap ($30) Radeon Pro WX 32
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
My Moto Edge 2024 has "Ready For" which is basically this still today. I plug in the USB-C cable normally connected to my work MacBook and I instantly get a full desktop experience; mouse, keyboard and sound included. It's h
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
I would also love to hear any success stories here. I converted my wife's Macbook over to Linux Mint somewhat recently and the best I could do was setup a shortcut to the Web version of her iCloud.
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
Thanks, yep I do have zram installed, but I'm working with mostly incompressible AI models so it really didn't help. I set it to cap at 8GB so random stuff can take advantage and I guess it helps a tiny bit, but not much. I have
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
Thank you for your service. :D Windows 2000 will always be my favorite version. I got a free copy as a university student and it was just awesome. XP was the era where things changed for the sake of change. In Windows 2000 you could lea
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
Nothing. This summer I set up a dual 16GB GPU / 64GB RAM system and nothing I could run was even remotely close. Big models that didn't fit on 32gb VRAM had marginally better results but were at least of magnitude slower than wh
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
I have 64gb in my linux machine and have managed to hardlock it a bunch of times exhausting the ram. Couldn't even REISUB a couple of times. The OOM killer stuff in Linux just doesn't work anymore by what I can gather. Buying mo
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by duffyjp 8mo ago
Absolutely. I've declined the refresh I've overdue for. My 2021 model MBP has 32gb and a 1TB SSD. They're currently giving out the base model Air: 16gb and 256gb. No thanks. We used to get whatever was most appropriate for
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by duffyjp 9mo ago
Everybody says this is because OpenAI bought up 40% of the world's supply of DRAM. Certainly that has hugely tilted the supply and demand teeter-totter, but to me this just feels like another "because we can" by the market.
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by duffyjp 9mo ago
I browsed thru my comment history to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Just over a year ago I had priced out a used Xeon and 256GB kit on eBay for my old X99 board (DDR4) for under $300. I did not pull the trigger. I did thankfully g
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by duffyjp 9mo ago
I threw together a utility for this with just the half character in 2018, I don't even remember why. https://rubygems.org/gems/barf The name does imply the image quality, fyi. My solution is also multithreaded, in
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by duffyjp 9mo ago
We have two Hisense TVs that both allow this. One is Roku based and the other Google TV. Neither is connected to wifi. I’d recommend the Google flavor, it has a lot more control over the settings and will auto suspend in a reasonable period
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by duffyjp 10mo ago
I looked at sold listings on eBay recently, very little was actually going for the crazy market rate. Plenty had sold at the old prices from sellers who hadn't gotten the memo though. I have some ram I could live without if it's w
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by duffyjp 10mo ago
I've never studied it, but my understanding is that like Japanese, Tagalog has the pitched/stressed thing going on. My wife is Japanese and holy cow I can't tell the difference. Bridge or Chopstick? No idea, they sound exa
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by duffyjp 10mo ago
I was there ~20 years ago. I had made friends with some Indonesia students in college and joined them on a trip home. We were mostly in Surabaya, but did spend some time in Jakarta as well. We had a great time. The language is a hidden g
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by duffyjp 1y ago
Very recently I setup a mergerfs mount for this. It’s very crude for my use case but works perfectly and I could use the existing volume as is. I got partway thru setting up a script to copy recently accessed files from the HDD to the read-
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by duffyjp 1y ago
I’ve had a bunch of Moto G phones, I love them. This round I decided to try their upper midrange Edge line. I found a deal on a Moto Edge 2024 and it’s fantastic. It’s so light and compact vs the Moto G Power, and still can go two full da
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by duffyjp 1y ago
I don't have the floppy anymore, but I do have the old system I used to run it on. QNX even supported my network card out of the box, the demo blew my mind. Was this really 25 years ago???
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by duffyjp 1y ago
Everybody is talking about Chrome, but I tell ya what I have that disabled on my Android in favor of Firefox. Firefox on mobile with full-fat uBlock Origin is the closest thing to parity with desktop web access you can get. I don't ju
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by duffyjp 1y ago
Image Composite Editor. It's a panorama maker from Microsoft Research. I'm a hobbyist photographer and nothing I've tried can come close. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/image
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by duffyjp 1y ago
Have you given Libre Office a try? I use their spreadsheet all the time. You can paste in data and actually get it into cells the way you want. Excel is terrible at this. Development Comparison: https://www.libreoffice.org&#x2
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by duffyjp 1y ago
I have a Sony DSC-TX100V that does GPS tagging. When I first got it in 2011 or so it was vastly superior in every way to phone cameras. Most of the photos and videos of my first kid were taken with this camera. I liked it so much that wh
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by duffyjp 1y ago
I wonder if the phoenix.new website was built with phoenix.new... This site can’t be reached The connection was reset.
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by duffyjp 1y ago
Hippie Christmas at UW Madison. I used to snag all kinds of stuff as a student. https://uwalumni.com/news/hippie-christmas/
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by duffyjp 1y ago
On Mac I disable icons from appearing on the Desktop and instead add one of those fan-out folder links to my taskbar, sorted newest first. I just checked and I have 547 Screenshots dating back to around this time last year. Maybe it'

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