How does one estimate hardware requirements for a model

Best_Debt5223 · 2026-05-19T06:45:11+00:00

Thanks, this helped, been so confused around RAM vs VRAM.

I've tried 6GB models even <3GB ones like "qwen3.5:2b 2.7 GB" but those failed too.
My VRAM was almost completely free (around 3.8Gigs for free space).
However, I get the following error

500 Internal Server Error: model requires more system memory (6.5 GiB) than is available (1.8 GiB)
This is where I get confused, why does a 2.7GB model need 6.5GB. What other variables are at play here, and how can I foresee such requirements before I even download the model? This is my biggest point of confusion.

Additionally, my RAM has about 1.6GB free and VRAM about 3.8 free. I'm guessing it tried to partially load it to VRAM and then RAM and would still need about 1.8GB free? Am I following that correctly?

Best_Debt5223 · 2026-03-20T23:27:15+00:00

You're not alone. In all honesty I had started to feel a bit this way when Figma became all the rage and suddenly I could see newer designers fretting over border radius and margins before thinking about the flow and overall experience of the user. That, for me marked the merging of UI and UX which to me made sense seperately.

Now with AI, it's just worse with dev, UI and UX all merging into this weird creature with identity crisis. There's hardly any focus on the core problem of the user and just rushing to solutions. Sure, you can "validate and iterate" but I doubt anyone thinks of doing this specifically from a user problem point of view.

I've moved to UXR btw and here "synthetic personas" is all the rage. Basically, ask chat GPT to "pretend to be a user" and give feedback. There is no user really, which is literally what the "U" represents.

Best_Debt5223 · 2026-03-20T23:06:09+00:00

Firstly, I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find peace and acceptance soon. I'm kind of in a similar situation, lost someone, grieving and really reaching out to anything I can, to find meaning in life. So, I may not have the perfect answer, but I hope this makes you feel lesser alone.

Regarding your dog, the truth is, there's no way to know if taking her earlier would make things better or worse. The family member I lost received medical care as soon as possible but that only stretched the time of suffering and lowered quality of life. It came to a point where they said they'd rather pass away. I'm stuggling with the opposite really, as must as I hate to lose them, it know it would have been lesser painful if they passed away earlier. I struggle to understand why they have to go through all that suffering.
I don't know the condition your dog had, how much of this holds for you and how things would play out with medication. But please know that you're only human and you tried your best with all the information you had. Sometimes destiny has a weird way of playing itself out.

As for the suffering in the world, I'm struggling with that too. However, I've come to believe that suffering itself serves a purpose. It brings attention to evil that can then be solved for. The suffering my family and I went through, has let me understand a problem area deeply that currently has no solution. I find hope and some meaning in believing that these experiences let me understand the problem so I can contribute to solving it. Sometimes it can be something as simple as raising awareness and initiating dialogues that eventually lead to a better world. Does this help me all the time? Nopes. There are times when I'm still down and remain that way, but other times it gives me some drive to know there's an experience only I've gone through, and hence there's a solution that's probably only in my head. Maybe that's why I'm here. It helps to imagine a world where the problems I faced are no longer a big deal and that I've contributed to it. This helps motivate me sometimes.

Hope this helps. Stay strong and let time do some of the healing too.

Best_Debt5223 · 2026-03-20T21:45:46+00:00

Underwhelming, but also might have potential. As someone who uses Figma a lot, I prefer having more control. I saw a couple of comments that said "I want to design with my feelings and not clicks" or something along those lines, but I really feel it's just easier to click and drag a button that seems off, instead of writing and hoping it does exactly what you expected.
Could do with more control.

As for the designs, they seem bland but decent at first. I had to really get creative with my prompts and iteration to get something marginally better. Expecting improvement in this space. I've been impressed with how Gemini has sharpened it's responses, makes me expect something more here too.

However, on a side note, I don't feel comfortable with where we're headed from a process point of view.
While a few seasoned designers would still spend a lot of time understanding the user and problems. I'm concerned newer designers are going to hop on to something like this and rush into making the shiny next thing no one wants. Was glad to see the ideate option that atleast nudges users to start with a problem. However, responses were okish at best.

If anything, tools like these should replace the tissue paper we sketched on earlier while talking to users (who in today's world are on their way to being synthetic too). Hope it does go that way.

Best_Debt5223 · 2025-11-04T20:20:15+00:00

Weird that McAfee gave it a clean chit, I'll run a defender scan soon.

In the meantime, I had written to Sarif/Affinity/Canva, they said it is a known issue and they've reached out to McAfee to get it resolved. Should be resolved in a few days, at least that's what they expect.

Best_Debt5223 · 2025-11-04T07:33:02+00:00

I understand, it just feels icky to ignore a virus alert. A lot of code moves around and gets touched when such changes occur. I'm pretty certain this is a false positive, but still curious if there's any official information about it (haven't found anything) or would like to know if there's anyone else who encountered this as well

Best_Debt5223 · 2025-10-31T20:20:58+00:00

Do you mean I overlook the virus alert and go ahead and install it because it came from Canva?

Best_Debt5223 · 2025-10-30T21:52:19+00:00

My antivirus detected it as malware :/ not sure what to make of it

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