normal person’s server.
I’m pretty sure I speak for the majority of normal people, but we don’t have servers.
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boonhet@lemm.ee 11 months ago
AI AI AI AI
Yawn
Zip2@feddit.uk 11 months ago
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
“Normal person” is a modifier of server. It does not state any expectation of every normal person having a server. Instead, it sets expectation that they are talking about servers owned by normal people. I have a server. I am norm… crap.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Yeah, when you’re a technology enthusiast, it’s easy to forget that your average user doesn’t have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.
(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)
pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.
Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hello fellow home labber! I have a home built xpenology box, proxmox server with a dozen vm’s, a hackentosh, and a workstation with 44 cores running linux. Oh, and a usb floppy drive. We are out here.
I also like long walks in Oblivion.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Man oblivion walks are the best until a crazy woman comes at you trying to steal your soul with a fancy sword
notabot@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You… you don’t? Surely there’s some mistake, have you checked down the back of your cupboard? Sometimes they fall down there. Where else do you keep your internet?
Appologies, I’m tired and that made more sense in my head.
Zip2@feddit.uk 11 months ago
peteyestee@feddit.org 11 months ago
Ikr…Dude thinks we’re restaurants or something.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.
You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.
Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.
What price point are you trying to hit?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I just use pre-made AI’s and write some detailed instructions for them, and then watch them churn out basic documents over hours…I need a better Laptop
boonhet@lemm.ee 11 months ago
With regards to AI?. None tbh.
With this super fast storage I have other cool ideas but I don’t think I can get enough bandwidth to saturate it.
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
TBH, that might be enough. Stuff like SDXL runs on 4G cards (the trick is using ComfyUI, like 5-10s/it), smaller LLMs reportedly too (haven’t tried, not interested). And the reason I’m eyeing a 9070 XT isn’t AI it’s finally upgrading my GPU, still would be a massive fucking boost for AI workloads.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?
Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, I think they’re saying they’re not interested in ML/AI. They want this super fast memory available for regular servers for other use cases.