If Trump wasn’t president, then there’s a small chance something would come of that. With the current situation, there is no chance.

It’s not like Nvidia the company is going down because of this.

Ollama, openwebui, running the ~20GB Qwen models on a 3090

A little bit of airflow can make a huge difference. If it works it works. I think the doubters have just never experimented.

You don’t need to check that the machine code your compiler made matched the code you wrote. You don’t need to check that the commit message an editor sent matched what you typed.

You absolutely do need to check and correct everything that comes out of AI because it’s at best like 80% correct, and that’s if the subject matter is easy.

People said this a year ago and I tested it then and it wasn’t great. I’ll believe it’s better but it’s hard to believe it’s “fixed”. I’m sure I’ll get a chance to try it again sometime. No way I’m paying for it myself lol.

That wasn’t my experience in Floriduh.

It depends heavily on the location. It was basically split right down party lines. Blue areas were like 90% masked, red areas were like 90% unmasked.

Just use the tiniest bit of imagination…

I’m trying not to stoop to the level of conspiracy theories. Even so, I don’t think your explanation makes any sense. How would the younger generations, especially those without money, contribute to the right wing propaganda that championed anti-masking ideas? Not to mention that most people care about their relatives for more than just their money.

The whole anti-masking things makes more sense to me as part of the long-running trend of anti-science propaganda from the right. Maybe that’s driven by oil companies because anti-science attitudes drive climate change denialism. But it also might just be the effects of the social issues that spun off of these things.

One curious anechdote - my dad was heavily questioning masking during COVID but I don’t remember him questioning masking when our town was full of smoke from wildfires from a few hundred miles north.

We have plenty of capacity to make all the insulin we need and more, it’s a more profitable business when there’s short supply. We have an infinite capacity for greed.

Exactly, that is free market capitalism.

What agenda do you think drove the “masks are for sissies” COVID response?

That one I’m not sure about, but I can’t think of a way it’s money related. However, the prevalence and cost of masks definitely went up during the pandemic, as most people did mask up. Some other supplies also went up in price, like microphones and cameras for computers as everyone started working from home.

That’s not true. Look at similar spikes in insulin and other lifesaving medicines, for example.

A human doing a clean room reimplementation is not supposed to have seen the original source code for something they are reimplementing. If that source code is in the training data for the LLM, that seems like a similar situation.

The difference is the original source code, and similar source code that is incompatibly licensed, was in the LLM training data, making it not a clean room.

It’s something to hassle with on Windows too. Less so on macOS because it’s easier for them to optimize everything when they control the whole software and hardware stack.

It’s good to get comfortable in the command line, including over ssh.

Especially considering ai and documentation along the way?

If I am going to ask AI or Google about something, I just do that to help me find the answer and then apply the answer myself. That way I learn, and can double check the AI isn’t hallucinating, at least on in obvious ways.

As for documentation, I keep a notes folder with detailed notes on manual configuration I’ve done, how and why, and the things I’ve learned along the way. I’ve found it’s both useful to help remember the things I’ve learned, and it is useful to go back to refer to.

I have bash scripts of the form rsync -av source dest for this. Make it -avz if copying over a network.

You’ll want a GPU with hardware encoding and decoding for popular codecs. Most GPUs these days do that, even the budget ones, but you do need one.

Minecraft servers want fast single core CPU performance and a decent amount of RAM.

The rest of it could be RAM hungry too.

You’ve basically described ufw which is a firewall tool available on many Linux distros.

I have my Immich instance setup with an nginx proxy for security and ssl, and that’s exposed to the internet. I have a domain for my personal website, so I just put up my Immich instance at a subdomain of that. I can now make public share links I can just copy and paste into a group chat. I haven’t added any other users yet but I’d I wanted to all they’d need to do is login via email/password.

This is an officially supported kind of setup for Immich, so I would consider it secure: https://docs.immich.app/administration/reverse-proxy/

I don’t have all of my homelab services exposed publicly though; I VPN in for those.

General tips for exposing a server to the internet:

• only expose the ports you need for services you intend to be accessible. Use a firewall and/or your router’s port forwarding settings to enable only what you need, with blocking as a default.
• update all software regularly
• only expose programs that are built to be exposed. For example, if you make a Flask website, they will warn you several times not to expose it directly, but to proxy it through something like nginx

Ofc it’s going to run Linux, it’s default OS is going to be some variant of SteamOS

I have an Nvidia GPU and I’ve been able to get HDR working on Linux (Bazzite gnome) with some tweaking for specific games. I haven’t really tried watching movies with it yet.

Specifically the 2 instances that everybody blocks, and it’s mostly fans of those two instances that complain about it.