[-] nagaram@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

For simply productivity like Copilot or Text Gen like ChatGPT.

It absolutely is doable on a local GPU.

Source: I do it.

Sure I can't do auto running simulations to find new drugs and protein sequencing or whatever. But it helps me code. It helps me digest software manuals. That's honestly all I want

Also, massive compute projects for the @home project are good?

Local LLMs runs fine on a 5 year old GPU, a 3060 12 gig. I am getting performance on par with cloud ran models. I'm upgrading to a 5060ti just because I wanted to play with image Gen.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Very Greg shaped guy

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

I could see that as a privacy measure.

Everything on Lemmy is open anyways but maybe the maintainer didn't want to be the guy to make Lemmy data that accessible. So it's a limitation. You can only have Lemmy data if you are hosting the server and the community.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

Dude SHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUP

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Pop OS

Lots of people were hyping it in 2019/2020 so I thought I'd give it a try as my first real Linux experience. It works great and has a Nvidia driver option when I need that. So I never really tried to switch.

Distro hoping never appealed to me, but I did try Fedora, Manjaro, Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian 12.

I use Kali for work and considered swapping to XFCE DE but pop is fine.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Europe is an amazing place.

Imagine living in a bedroom fit for a king

Yet playing on the world's first "Flat screen" monitor that your grandma gave you.

Such a beautiful place.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Only 200? I see you are improving

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Yes! Gods damn it. I had that up an everything on my second monitor.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Enough that there's a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

It's insane. I really want one for that reason, but ThinkPad with a ugreen 145 Watt battery bank gives me 16 hours of use. That's all waking hours.

It's hard to justify spending 3x as much on a single laptop just for that kind of battery life.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I have done a full 8 hours of work on my Dell Latitude 5440 before on battery. I put it in bat saver and it lasted me the whole work day.

But I re cognize something: why would I need to do that?

I sat a desk or my couch all day both of which had a convenient outlet. There was no point in doing that all on bat. Yeah it's impressive to have a crazy long battery life and is why I wanta MacBook for coffee shop coding days, but again, there's almost guaranteed to be convenient outlets and I own a 145Watt battery bank if needed. Thus my $150 ThinkPad E495 has been reaching 16+ hours of use without needing a wall wart.

Maybe your use case is different but mine where I'm certainly going to be stationary enough to use a plug or a battery bank means I can't justify the apple tax. Plenty of people have done this calculation hence why Apple still doesn't have an appreciable enterprise market share let alone a competitive one.

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't had a prime sub in 5 years. It's not been worth it in a while.

What good is the convenience of having everything on the same website if I have to determine if it's fake or not?

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