AMillionMonkeys

@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer GPUs to run LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would prefer to have GPUs for under $600 if possible

  Unfortunately not possible for a new nvidia card (you want CUDA) with 16GB VRAM. You can get them for ~$750 if you’re patient. This deal was available for awhile earlier today:
  …msi.com/…/GeForce-RTX-5070-Ti-16G-SHADOW-3X-OC
  Or you could try to find a 16GB 4070Ti Super like I got. It runs Deepseek 14B and stuff like Stable Diffusion no problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin

  Probably the biggest reason is that it makes it so easy to securely share across the internet. With JF you’re on your own and you can really fuck things up. If you’re just running it on your LAN the JF is the obvious choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want to see gamed content?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some… uh… that’s some programmer art there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rant! 100GB Log file in Nextcloud.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything I hear about Nextcloud scares me away from messing with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried Kopia but it was unstable and janky, so now it’s whenever I remember to manually run a bunch of rsync. I backup my desktop to cold storage on the first of the month, so I should get in the habit of backing up my server to the NAS then also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is everyone using as a HTPC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 (can’t remember which) controlled through the TV with the remote. It’s running LibreElec (Kodi) with the Jellyfin plugin. Discoverability isn’t great through Kodi, but I can always use a computer or phone to find the media and cast if I need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got Pentiment and Persona 5 ready to go. I’ll probably start Pentiment first since it’s undoubtedly shorter.
  Balatro looks really tempting, too, but I’d want that for my laptop or phone (?) and not my gaming PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Portainer mainly to start / stop / restart containers without the mental load of using the command line. It works fine with Compose if you can get (or write) a yaml file for the container you’re interested in, or you can use it to pull from the repository and set everything up if you can’t. Portainer also gives you a nice, one-stop view of the current state of your containers. Basically, it can’t hurt to have it around.
  Personally, my favorite Docker management GUI is the one that comes with Synology NASes. It’s much less clunky that Portainer and iirc a little more powerful. But of course it only runs in their hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my main complaint with PoE 1 is the way it bludgeons you with lore. The writers are so excited to show off this massive world they’ve invented, they just aren’t very artful about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tone is much less dour than the first one, and I think it does a better job introducing the world. It’s still a lot to take in, but all of the text has links you can click on that explain anything you don’t recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been replaying Pillars of Eternity II - in fact I have the tavern music stuck in my head right now. Mostly I just need some CRPG gameplay, so I’m not doing anything wildly different with my character this time around. Maybe I should do an evil run…
  Knowing how the ending works, I’m still not sure which faction to go with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a shame. I’m sort of half-assedly using syncthing to backup my photos from my phone to my server, but mostly I rely on immich. I never really got the hang of using syncthing with my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll second Tyranny and Pillars 2.
  Tyranny’s ending is… well… they tacked on some text - but it’s a great game otherwise.
  PoE2 is more enjoyable than the first one, IMO, just for the lighter tone. They do a better job of explaining the world, too, because you aren’t bludgeoned with lore-dumps like in 1.