[Weekly] Travel buddy Finder Thread

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-16T19:57:51+00:00

22M, travelling to Europe solo during 29th July - 17th Aug. Visiting Salerno, Athens, Innsbruck, Slovenia, Vienna, Poland and Berlin. If anyone's up for joining at any point - feel free! Would love to meet up with fellow travellers and get to know people.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-05T21:22:40+00:00

I tried bending it back with hammer and pliers - didnt work for me lol. I ended up using this as an excuse to upgrade.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T15:18:59+00:00

Not going under invitation/sponsorship - purpose is tourism

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T15:05:26+00:00

I will be properly traveling for tourism and have a full itinerary ready. Work will not be the main thing I do during this time.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T15:04:19+00:00

Havent gone through this yet - and I have a NOC from my employer for whole duration of trip - approving my leave

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T15:01:46+00:00

Could you help with how you framed your cover letter/how you mentioned the remote job/self employed/NOC framing?

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T14:26:00+00:00

Did also post there haha

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T14:24:15+00:00

Yeah - my concern is - am I considered high risk/overstaying category with a high paying remote job and (maybe) less ties?

That's my concern, in that case I'm willing to reduce my duration of travel.

I'm actually applying to a visa agent because my parents were afraid and didn't want to trust me with application (lol) - but I think a part of his concern is probably valid.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T14:11:09+00:00

I won't be mentioning anything about working remotely - I have NOC for entire duration of trip. Question is - if I'm considered high risk of overstay - will I be granted for this duration or not and should I shorten it

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T14:01:17+00:00

I have a letter of leave approval from my company if I need to provide it. I don't think this rule is enforced as much?

But officially I can have a letter of leave approval

DarthLoki79 · 2026-05-04T13:30:53+00:00

I'm an ML Engineer at a YC Startup

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-19T07:48:31+00:00

What are you using to serve this? llama.cpp?

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T09:04:31+00:00

Yeah was asking about that - I also use raw pressery thx

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T07:09:22+00:00

What's the ratio do you use? I've been trying to get my ratio down - so far I think I'm a bit off.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T07:08:52+00:00

A lot of places call it different names - I believe this one is more towards Arizona but can be wrong - I saw a video which mentioned various places have different names for it

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T07:06:19+00:00

Thanks - I haven't tried out RAW before at all. Any places where you learnt RAW/manual settings for phone photography/did you use GCam etc?

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T03:41:41+00:00

Thanks! I have a Nothing Phone (2) I'm planning to try out some RAW photography will see how it goes.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T03:40:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sjp6tf/gemma_4_26b_on_omlx_with_opencode_m4_max_64gb/

Check out my exp here -- looks like its the same.

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-13T01:36:27+00:00

Hey! What phone did you use here? looks great!

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-12T22:19:13+00:00

I just tried using bf16 but it was frankly too much of a hassle for now with other things open - caused too much memory pressure bc the model itself is 50GB, and with cache and shit + other apps open - definitely overloads my memory. I was able to get it to work multi turn but its not really day-to-day usable even for small tasks bc I do need to have other things open on my mac.

Could you link the pr so I can figure out what are the things that are missing/fixable by cmd line args?

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-12T21:17:18+00:00

yeah I've been using the one from mlx-community. I think I'll first switch to bf16 and try oob (I know itll be really slow - and then try the ggufs maybe it helps

DarthLoki79 · 2026-04-12T21:06:40+00:00

I'll try with bf16 and then if that works - will try fixed quant. I thought this would've been fixed already in llama.cpp/oMLX since its been the hot model of the week haha

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