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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…

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 Opt…

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…

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 …

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 moni…

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…

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…

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 versi…

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…

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 chang…

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 resul…

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 does…

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 use…

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 l…

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…

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 s…

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 ov…

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 thou…

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. Br…

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…

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 scri…

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…

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 year…

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 …