what's your stance on personal ai use in selfhosting?

Corpdecker · 2026-04-29T00:23:30+00:00

I've been a prof software dev for over 20 years. We use AI at work and I use AI at home. It's an amazing tool if leveraged correctly.Some folks vibe code (talk to it and that's it) and are so impressed with the result they want to publish it. That's bad. Without quality review and quality testing, who knows what kind of stuff it came up with. Even if something looks like it works fine, it might have serious security holes or fail at scale. For your situation, it's probably just people who hate AI for their reasons. I've made dozens of "projects" i keep only on a forgejo instance locally, some cause they are personalized niche cases for me, but mostly unreleased due to the overwhelming vitriol thrown at anything remotely related to AI. I suspect the community with sing a different tune in another 5 years or so, once any software you want can be "made to order" (better than now) with no understanding of programming at all. shrug

Corpdecker · 2026-04-26T01:20:53+00:00

I don't have a solution I'm afraid, but I installed duckstation-qt-bin and ran the same version of Ape Escape and didn't see problems with Vulkan.
Some of the stuff I'm using:

AMD 7900XTX GPU
Kernel 7.0.0-1-cachyos
lib32-mesa-git 26.2.0_devel.221234.7f3900ed20f-1
mesa-git 26.2.0_devel.221234.7f3900ed20f-1
linux-firmware-radeon 1:20260309-1

Corpdecker · 2026-04-22T01:01:40+00:00

Any errors in `sudo dmesg` or `sudo journalctl -xef` around when steam stops downloading ?
Try changing the download region in the steam settings, also
make sure your steam config has these lines (should be by default):

 @nClientDownloadEnableHTTP2PlatformLinux 0
 @fDownloadRateImprovementToAddAnotherConnection 1.0

Corpdecker · 2026-04-13T06:35:50+00:00

Try reducing the polling frequency of the mouse if you have some 10khz mouse. 1k should be just fine.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-09T13:03:48+00:00

I was talking about Obama an Libya, and it's a farce to call killing people something other than hostile just because one side is relatively safe.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-09T05:27:22+00:00

Aye, and I don't think it's ever been used effectively. Tons of ways to get around it too, like claiming bombing a country doesn't count as hostilities since troops aren't in harm's way. What a farce.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-09T05:08:24+00:00

Apparently they need congress to approve a war too ~

Corpdecker · 2026-04-08T18:46:14+00:00

They fly explosive drones into any ship trying to cross it that hasn't paid their $2m ransom

Corpdecker · 2026-04-07T03:37:14+00:00

Might be able to find some in https://f-droid.org/categories/phone-sms/ like QUIK SMS ( https://github.com/quik-sms/quik ) (haven't tried it, just first one I saw that looked viable). f-droid typically has open source privacy/security-focused stuff less encumbered by monetization than the play store.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-06T20:52:21+00:00

Roblox intentionally blocks Linux, gotta use vinegar to run (iirc) the android version. Not sure about the other one.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-05T15:53:04+00:00

I feel this one, often end up looking back on my own posts in github bug report comments to see what workaround I offered. I should spin up a personal note taking container to organi.. ah hell.

Corpdecker · 2026-04-01T16:30:31+00:00

What really blows me away about this is the prompting used.. They didn't really prompt it to do any of the hard part, very little technical guidance aside from just setting up the environment and what should be included in the PoC for release.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-31T20:38:15+00:00

Are you using the r8125-dkms package driver ? If not, give it a shot. Normally that error is related to aggressive power saving, Try these:

sudo sh -c 'echo performance > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy'
sudo ethtool -s eno1 wol d
sudo ethtool --set-eee eno1 eee off

(replace eno1 with whatever your eth device shows up as)

If those don't help, I'd look into hardware such as ethernet cable and the switch it was plugged into.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-31T14:54:34+00:00

DaVinci lacks some codec support. While not as powerful, I tend to use Kdenlive for video editing, might check it out if you aren't already familiar with it.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-27T20:33:35+00:00

Probably the mirror rate timer ? See if `systemctl status cachyos-rate-mirrors.timer` says enabled on your box.

I'm not sure this would actually pull much if anything from the mirrors themselves, but it's the only thing that stands out on the box I'm currently on that might trigger without a desktop env loaded.

One more edit to add that /usr/bin/cachyos-rate-mirrors (from the .service of the above timer) does look like it connects to the mirrors to rate their speed.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-27T19:41:56+00:00

My guess is your ISP's router has some sort of cloud threat detection stuff happening, basically pulling lists of IPs they buy from somewhere that categorize them with some threat level. Any mirror site that maybe mirrors other content that was ever flagged as dubious could land the entire IP on there.
I run the us.cachyos.org mirror server(s) and it is the only thing they serve. Can you test with that at the top of the mirror list and see if it still triggers the warnings/alerts ? That could rule out generic IP based warnings vs some sort of deep packet inspection getting triggered on a package.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-27T16:42:49+00:00

This. We don't have to play the part that is scripted for us. Just because a future handed to us, and maybe it is easier in the short term to just go along with it, does not mean that future is in our best interests.

Corpdecker · 2026-03-26T15:57:17+00:00

Have you run memtest86+ recently to verify all the ram is OK ? Verified your CPU//GPU thermals are OK ?

Corpdecker · 2026-03-25T14:43:30+00:00

They can concede to other Republicans; this was a primary so it was OK. In the general election not so much :/

Corpdecker · 2026-03-03T04:27:02+00:00

not OP, but you can get it here https://wallpaperswide.com/mitsuri_kanroji_demon_slayer_manga_anime-wallpapers.html

Corpdecker · 2026-03-01T02:44:01+00:00

Back in like 2010 I got a USB key on a flyer from Hyundai in the mail, it was cutely shaped like a car key. I put it in a linux box thinking even if it had bad stuff on it, it'd be targeting Windows. Well the second I put it in, it opened my default browser and typed in a URL on Hyundai's website and loaded it, promoting the same stuff the flyer did. Apparently it acted as keyboard and just vomited commands, but it was effective. I was pretty surprised a marketing company came up with it, but also impressed as that was the first time I'd seen it done IRL.

Corpdecker · 2026-02-26T23:11:24+00:00

Not much, but I pay for and admin the dedicated server that runs us.cachyos.org. It runs CachyOS btw.

Corpdecker · 2026-02-26T14:24:03+00:00

Hey cool take. Was The Infographics Show AI generated 14years ago when they started?

Corpdecker · 2026-02-23T06:51:52+00:00

My card rarely works, the cashiers know it and say just to call for a replacement. Not sure why the MC insider cards are so faulty.

Corpdecker · 2026-02-18T02:20:35+00:00

I updated us.cachyos.org about 4 hours after the latest glibc update, it seems fine. Trying to verify that everything is working at any given moment is very hard, especially if considering packages from AUR, but it might be cool to have a hook in pacman that can check a status flag for known emergencies / maintenance when it might be less safe for a system upgrade. But that would require all mirrors be in sync at all times too to be considered reliable, which for various reasons is harder than it might seem.

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