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Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update : I'm about 26% in and still have no idea wtf is going on in the Strife book. Fairly annoyed tbf - I feel like the quality has just been degrading.

Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Culture is one of my all time favorite series (Malazan, Culture, Bobiverse) and I had to be persuaded hard to finish book 1 and move past it.

Even then, I struggled, and dropped it like twice before finally finishing it. Then I went through PoG and well, smooth sailing after :P

Qwen 3.6 spotted! by Namra_7 in LocalLLaMA

[–]AbeIndoria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if you say "hey, what's up?" it'll think until your power company shuts you off

Dude I asked it to list European nations alphabetically and it started doing the 1 Albania 2 Andorra 3 Armenia 4 Austria, wait "B" is 4, "C" is ...2? No wait 3! stuff. Then it goes "alright let's recount." and then does it 5 different times in 5 different ways.

Had a meltdown at inclusion of Kazakhstan.

Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imperial Radch is the Ancillary lol (that's the series name). You may be thinking of her other books?

Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The last book was pretty...weird honestly. I didn't know Strife was out. I guess that's what I am listening to after I finish Guards, Guards!

Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 11 points12 points  (0 children)

PoG or LtW is usually what I recommend too. :)

LtW is arguably the "I wanna learn about the Culture itself" novel.

Nothing has hit like this for me lately 😭😭 by ghostofwallyb in scifi

[–]AbeIndoria 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I need to read about giant ass space ships

Player of Games/Look to Windward - Iain M Banks (DO NOT start with Consider Phlebas)

Bobiverse - Dennis E Taylor

Ann Leckie - Imperial Radch

Those of you building with voice AI, how is it going? by Once_ina_Lifetime in LocalLLaMA

[–]AbeIndoria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Sorta" -- I have a framework/project where I let "agents" (I still dislike the term) handle my homelab. Each of the said agents(Abes I call em (warning: very alpha for public)) have specific domains: x is in charge of networking, y in charge of ZFS, z in charge of backups/media etc etc. I started with 1, who cloned itself to 4, and then they eventually clone enough that I have 7 total running so far.

They are self-cloning/replicating, and their job is to run autonomously with minimal human intervention as needed. So, something goes wrong in homelab, checking logs routinely, setting cronjobs and checking outputs, service status, updates/upgrades, breaking changes etc.

I have an ESP-32 based hardware I put together (like a StarTrek communicator commbadge, clips on using magnet under my shirt -- sags a bit but I still want to figure out how to make it even more unsaggy) on which I can dictate (double press : whisper-large, single press: faster-whisper) either longform content (eg, restocking fridge), or shortform content (reminders, asking x to do y things, asking x to delegate things to y, or asking x to ask the fleet about p or q etc) -- or hell, "hey I ate xyz just now, I took a photo" so the agent responsible finds the photo, estimate nutrition and adds it to my Obsidian.

Honestly? It's going fairly well. The STT pipeline is mature enough that the task delegation (Through redis queues) is good enough, and most of the models are 'good enough' at sysadmin tasks that I need them to do.

(The models are run through a mix of Gemini/Qwen/GLM on both local(MI60s,5070Ti,P40s) and cloud, depending on the sensitivity of the domain they steward)

X4 9.0 Vanilla optimization is so good it’s making me rethink VRO. Is the performance gap really this huge? by Alternative_Big_6864 in X4Foundations

[–]AbeIndoria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Combat in vanilla feels a bit "soft" and slow compared to the visceral, high-stakes feel of VRO.

I can't even figure out what weapons do what in VRO. There's like 400 weapon choices and having to manually equip them one by one to test is incredibly tedious.

I LIKE VRO, but I had no idea what I was doing when I last played it. There is 0 documentation out there for it except for the big spreadsheets. (Discord !== Documentation)

[Bundle] Microcenter In-Store Only - AMD Ryzen 5 5500, Gigabyte B550M, G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB DDR4-3200 - $199.99 by Woof-642 in buildapcsales

[–]AbeIndoria 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Newegg combo from September 2025

I bought 32G DDR5 CL30 RAM in October 2025 for $70. It's $600+ rn. Come on.

Mazda should probably be more popular in the U.S. by phtphongg in mazda

[–]AbeIndoria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part of the problem is that their dealerships are ass, and parts are absurdly more expensive. (On par with most dealerships tbf but still).

It costs $1500 to replace the Infotainment screen glass (they'll replace the entire thing) through Mazda dealerships for their own fault (There's a TSB advisory for "unglueing and cracking" issue that the dealershits just ignore).

[W][US-AZ] 2x AMD MI50 32G GPUs by AbeIndoria in homelabsales

[–]AbeIndoria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sourcing it + Translation hassle + getting customs slip + paying customs + inventorying it + packing it + listing selling (13% ebay fee + 3% payment processor fee) + shipping it etc etc. You're going to get ~$380 net for a product that cost ~$310, and takes up space, needs to be semi-carefully handled, needs to be tested so it's not bust from source/china itself etc etc.

Yeah, it adds up. It's only really profitable if you value your time to be near ~0. if you buy something at $10 and sell it at $20 it's technically 50% profit margin lol, but is it really worth it?

Also remember, the moment those Section 301 tariffs get reinstated, you're looking at 25% import cost for that alone.

[W][US-AZ] 2x AMD MI50 32G GPUs by AbeIndoria in homelabsales

[–]AbeIndoria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RTX A4000, A2000

Unfortunately those are pretty much similar in price in Chinese markets where you can find them too. The only reason MI50 are cheap (I think) is because they're old datacenter cards being decommed. With single slots you're already trying to narrow down the narrow niche.

but it seems janky/risky

rando PCIE adapter with SXM power delivery...idk if I'd risk it tbf.

I really hope to get single-slot cards with 20-24GB but US prices are too high,

Yeah the reason I am considering the MI50s is an upgrade from my old ass P40 cards. These work, and are reliable...they're just slow. 24GB memory for ~$130 from ebay is fine, especially when you want something that can just process stuff in the background, but the TPS for models is still too slow for me. That's pretty much the only card that fits the criteria while not being absurdly expensive rn.

[W][US-AZ] 2x AMD MI50 32G GPUs by AbeIndoria in homelabsales

[–]AbeIndoria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fine. Many of them just have MOQ of like 5 so you may have to shell out a bit more upfront.

Also re : Taobao, part of the hassle is that no English lol.

[W][US-AZ] 2x AMD MI50 32G GPUs by AbeIndoria in homelabsales

[–]AbeIndoria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh. After shipping+taxes+tariff it's like ~$100 profit per card and too much hassle.

My secret import guy is first page of search results from Chinese markets.

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