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  • It is completely up to your local market and needs, ie for how much you can sell it, what you can buy etc…

    The only tips I can give you:

    • Do you REALLY need all of the compute power? Most people don’t and you would wast a ton on electricity. This point on it’s own is enough to push most to a mini pc. (Immich can run on basically any mini pc)
    • is there absolutely no other place for the server where the noise wouldn’t be an issue?
    • look into sound proofing, you could house it in a box lined with acoustic foam with a the airway taking multiple 90° turns to keep airflow while reducing noise.

    P.S:

    I personally went on an in-between, I have a large tower pc, basically a server but with hardware meant for mostly silent work, so it rarely get’s noisier than background.




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    Wthout going into the issue itself, it is such a ridiculous waste to use an llm for something that a far simpler model could do like 100x faster and locally for essentially free…

    Just search for “machine learning text moderation” and you will find all kinds of options. Not to talk about the fact that a simple 4B LLM could do this as well.

    One thing I really hate is how LLMs have completely overshadowed the entire ML/AI field and people just use them for everything.

    Using a trillion parameter LLM model for basic text moderation is like using a gaming rig to play candy crush.







  • Do you want external input and to contribute to society? Open source

    Do you want external input but don’t want your code used in other projects? Source available (ie open source with very restricted licensing)

    Do you not want any of that and just want to do your own thing? Closed source

    A good thing to remember is that open source invites both good and bad criticism, as well as help, so it can help you improve but it can also be hard to handle the less than helpful people.

    Also, like real life, the more you hide info, the less trustworthy you are. Open source puts you in a default trustable position for many people, while closed source puts you in a default untrustable position.






  • For docker compose I have a part of the script that gets all subdirs of “projects” dir and for each one does an update (that way any new service will be updated without having manually specify in the script) for everything else I just hard coded the update process.

    Generally 90% of my updates are just running the script, on the other 10% I do some manual work (like updating configs, etc)

    But for the most part this is me refusing to use already existing tools that could probably do most of this better





  • My worst rack experience was at an office I did IT in, the networking closet had 3 racks and like 20 switches/routers, each one with almost all the ports in use.

    There. Was. No. Cable. Management. None…

    Everytime someone changed something over the years, they would grab the nearest cable and connect it however they wanted.

    You literally had to craw between cables and follow them with your hand from one port to the other as there was no other way to find what went where.

    I’m talking 10-15 minutes to switch a cable from two switches on the same rack.

    I once spent 2 hours mapping out where 1(!) endpoint was connected because the cable died (they were all basically trash) and there was no mapping so I had to use a line tracer (tone generator)