thank you folks. Your input gives me a decent starting point. I’ll start digging based on info/experiences shared, maybe I can find someone locally selling old GPU with enough ram for cheap

well, I intend on scavenging for parts as I can’t really afford today’s prices. And since I don’t really know what should I grab as minimum specs I don’t even know what to look for. I could try to look for old(er) gaming rigs people sell or maybe there are some business workstations that may be sold in bulk. Either way, knowing what’s the minimum viable set of specs for running qwen or claude locally would be helpful

I’ve got some circa 2010 cards laying about with a 32Gb server that already has 8Gb carved out for TrueNAS, so essentially I could squeeze 16-24Gb out of it, but it’s an older i5 Intel CPU

not “if” but “when” but that is of no concern to CxO’s and “market analysts” 😉

Removed by mod

This is irrelevant as CEO’s and shareholders keep screaming “moar AI!”. Engineers know limits of the tool but are forced to ignore those. So yes,LLM is comming for your job but not because it can do it,but because it is perceived to be cheaper.

yes

it actually will take your job… it will crash industries and economies a touch later, when all the knowledge and expertise is lost and we’re left with a choice of rolling back a century or keep living within enshitified society. And not because AI is useless, but because suits and wallstreet are casing exponential profits from the snake oil AI outfits are selling.

there was labour movement that clawed some freedoms and dignity from savage capitalism. Those gains are eroding fast now. Unchecked, capitalism has no inventive for sharing spoils with labour.

is that the same guy claiming that there should be no moderation on Facebook for “true freedom” and who cried his eyes out telling stories of horrible Democracts making him take out deranged individuals off platform? Well…

not just US problem though

methods of extermination matter. Did you ever try to train an animal? Did you exterminate one for not listening? Do you know anyone who did exterminate animals for bad behaviour and put it on their resume? Do you want to be like them? Ideas and movements do not grow in a vacuum. Uneducated underpaid masses will find the most unpleasant outlet for their anger. Mainstream Democrats will not resolve that issue and those same Democrats will choke off any progressive agenda. So it’s a hydra, you cut off one head only to get two staring back at you. Extermination of effect solves absolutely nothing. So, you were saying?

VERY dramatic. Maybe even accurate. But does it really matter? System needs to change. Otherwise same people will hijack Dems and you’ll have NOTHING to tramp it with having a single party. So yeah, nuance, grasshopper.

there’s a name for it: “racheting”

that kind of verbiage only promotes political division and confrontation. So being precise with what you say does matter. Should dissenting opinions exist? Should there be guardrails AGAINST blatant breaks of law (domestic and international)? Should people be jailed or exterminated for their political views? Who has monopoly on violence? etc. etc. Political demise for republicans would be nice but then take into consideration how very close Mainstream Democrats are to republicans. This is not solved by political extermination of Republicans but by pluralistic government, proportional representation that allows for more nuance and forces compromise… would still need strong and independent judicial branch to hold government to account. Calls for extermination of “other” was always a prerogative of radical extremes, ability to set the framework that prevents any abuse and having a dialogue is what defines “civilized” society

…the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost…

like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say “bomb”, “arson”, “nuke” etc. It’s time to use more VPN to generate such a level of white noise where it becomes impractical to track VPN access…

So THAT is the glorious big present POTUS47 was yapping about earlier? Nice present in a shape of extortion…

didn’t court recently rule that AI works couldn’t be patented or copyright protected? Meaning if malus.sh is for real anyone using that service should be ironically donating results to public domain, OR anyone leaking produced code to public can’t be held liable. 🤷‍♂️

love them onions 😁