panda_abyss
@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 1919 vs 2026 4 hours ago:
I wouldn’t put it past him that it mashes him feel more like Hitler to hold power in a crumbling embarrassed power filled with latent rage.
That is exactly what the Nazis leveraged to gain and hold power.
- Comment on Weird mountain looking kind of suss tbh 1 week ago:
I always enjoy Pompeii graffiti
- Comment on ... new compass just dropped...? 1 week ago:
I’m a little sad the Goths aren’t on here
- Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? 1 week ago:
~100gb with images and the max image.
- Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? 1 week ago:
Asides from my kiwix clone of Wikipedia, in the apocalypse there’s not much value to most of the things I self host.
I self host backups, code forge, some AI tools (all my AI chat and completion are local now).
But realistically, in an apocalypse situation I’m going to leave my suburban home and migrate somewhere safer and more directly connected to food+shelter, and probably spend my days dealing with trying to survive.
My self hosting is primarily designed around avoiding US based tools and systems, so that I have more control over privacy and don’t find policy I disagree with.
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 1 week ago:
I think that’s so cool!
I wonder what they’re like (I’m sure the answer is cold and rocky, but still!)
We need more deities!
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 1 week ago:
How many could there be?
- Comment on Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one 1 week ago:
I like to imagine the alternative world, where instead of deplanetizing Pluto, they planetized all the dwarf planets and planetoids in our system.
- Comment on "We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game 1 week ago:
Twitter has been on a massive decline since Elon bought it, updated the algorithm to force right wing bullshit on the users, and pushed AI generated deep fakes and child porn.
In 2026 there’s no “reach” excuse when other platforms have gained traction and non logged in viewers have a crap experience.
- Comment on "We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game 1 week ago:
Just nazi stuff.
- Comment on In Defense of Ea Nasir 1 week ago:
Elaborate?
Didn’t Ea Nasir have a room with a connection of complaints, implying it’s not just one client who was mad?
- Comment on Microsoft is making it easier to identify more modern, secure printers in Windows 11 1 month ago:
CUPS
That is all that’s needed.
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 3 months ago:
In this case it’s the os asking your birthday, not having to prove your identity to use the computer
Which while still shitty is the only acceptable amount if she verification.
- Comment on What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally? 3 months ago:
It’s still a fantastic computer.
I use it as a server and it’s very very fast, especially threaded workflows, and IO is fast.
Just don’t buy it expecting to replace paid AI services. And don’t buy it for AI dev, on paper it should be good, but driver issues. DGX Spark is better if yo want an AI dev machine.
- Comment on What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally? 3 months ago:
It would not be worth it as a replacement for Claude.
80% of my issue is that it’s AMD and their drivers are still awful. 20% is that the token generation speed very slow, especially compared to commercial models running on dedicated hardware. MOE models are fine, dense models are too slow for meaningful workflows. ComfyUI is decent, but I’m not seriously into image gen.
I have a lot of fun with it, but I have not been able to use it for any actual AI dev.
- Comment on What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally? 3 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally? 3 months ago:
High RAM for MOE models, high VRAM for dense models, and the highest GPU memory bandwidth you can get.
For stable diffusion models (comfyui), you want high VRAM and bandwidth. Diffusion is a GPU heavy and memory intensive operation.
Software/driver support is very important for diffusion models and comfy UI, so your best experience will be Nvidia cards.
I think realistically you need 80gb+ of RAM for things like qwen image quants (40 for model, 20-40 for LORA adapters in ComfyUI to get output).
I run an 128gb AMD AI 395+ Max rig, qwen image takes 5-20 minutes per 720p qwen image result in ComfyUI. Batching offers an improvement, reducing iterations during prototyping makes a huge difference. I have not tested since the fall though, and the newer models are more efficient.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 5 months ago:
I guess that’s true.
This morning my very non techy wife was complaining all the AI shit on her computer was making it slow.
I looked over and Explorer was visibly lagging clicking in to a folder, on a system with an SSD and solid specs.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 5 months ago:
I feel like I just want to check out of society lately.
Charging money to run your own actions, what the fuck?
But the sane thought goes with the new increased iOS ads, and just the general state of “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin” phase of tech. I’m so fucking tired of it.
I know this is self hosted, but man I’m ready to start living in a cave.
Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
Gave this a shot… something is horribly wrong with my system, for whatever reason steam could read my controller but never responded to any buttons in big picture mode.
Also, apparently my controller works as a mouse though, which is pretty neat.
I’m on atomic fedora, so I’ll try out bazzite (had no idea it was that easy to switch distros on atomic)
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
The pc parts market is getting fucked by the AI rush, so maybe it’ll work out better.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
Well I know what I’m doing after work this week.
I have atomic fedora cosmic, so I’ll see what levers I need to pull to make this work. Maybe I need to add steam to the os tree and break it out of its flat pack.
Thank you for the tip!
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
Oh cool! I might have to try this out!
If I can get this to run on “console mode” and ssh into it for my server needs, that would be awesome
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
I don’t think it has hdmi cec the way steam box does.
Plus I use it as a server and it constantly has most vram used by ml models.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 6 months ago:
I’m might be tempted by this thing.
I’ll have to see the price and the real world specs.
I have a framework desktop which probably fills al lot the same niches though… having this set up with the tv is something the framework doesn’t do.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 9 months ago:
SQLite is a proper database. Realistically you’ll never exhaust its 278tb storage limits, it’s thoroughly battle tested, and it’s dead easy to backup.
I doubt nextcloud is running enough parallel db writes for this to actually matter — and if it is WAL mode is still probably good enough.
Once you have multiple software clients running then you will need a client server dbms like Postgres. For most home or group installations, this should not be an issue.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 9 months ago:
That kid is never going to figure out if they downloaded the assignment pdf to “Downloads (iPad)” or “Downloads (iCloud)”