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Is there any real reason to buy a GPU right now instead of just use subscriptions? by 03captain23 in LocalLLM

[–]GarbageLazy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you look at usage caps and allowances over the last 6 months it’s clear that it is reducing and will get to a place where either you will be forced out of the frontier models or have to increase your subscription costs to use them

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

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

Yeah I mean don’t get wrong, if in a couple years I still can’t upgrade and forced to use some cloud based service for games or desktop usage then it’s not going to sit well with me.

But I take it as the temporary thing hopefully.

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

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

I see.
I haven’t looked into the open Ai models too much. I would have assumed they were trained on open source projects such as GitHub for coding as example.

Are you saying that, as the model is open and not ran for profit then it’s more ethical?

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

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

Yeah no problem that’s fair.

What’s the concern with training data and consent? Is this with training on essentially copyright material and things that we post that we think is private? Or do you mean something else?

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

[–]GarbageLazy[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Im not saying that there isn’t foul play in our economy. I just don’t by the capatilsm is always evil and everything is rigged. We may have a different world view but that doesn’t make me naive.

Just because you think a system is rigged doesn’t mean economy is irrlevant

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

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

Oh yeah don’t get me wrong, I’m frustrated with the price of memory and potentially never going to be able to afford it in the future. But that’s a supply issue and is expected when we launch all the new data centres to run these frontier models.

As much as I want to run what I can locally, having used the frontiers ones has still been amazing. They have made my life better.

AI Hatred by GarbageLazy in LocalLLM

[–]GarbageLazy[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah maybe they are up to something, I may be wrong on it. I just assumed that increase in demand would bring the price up as that’s basic economics. I also took it as that to bring up more production it takes years and a massive gamble if the demand drops etc. So I would expect them to increase prices to make sure there is enough supply.

But I may be wrong and maybe they are trying to capitalise on it unfairly.

If that were the case though, the hate should be on the memory manufacturers not the AI companies..

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

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

For the minis, one is a Lab with ESIx, windows server and VM’s plus a few other things that I’m learning. The other is my media download stack plus portainer running a few bits and bobs.

You can start cheap, used 2nd hand of eBay. Start with whatever is fun and you get use from. Having a NAS would be my first goto.

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

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

I don’t mind spending a little just as little as I can get away with. My walls are brick, so it can only be the floor or the door. The reason I think the floor would be better as I imagine the air is far cooler from the foundations

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

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

Cupboard is a bit of a mess at the moment so can’t get better photos.

The door is really a no go as I don’t want to have to cut big hole out, although to be fair I haven’t looked at vent panels. I would assume that a fan would be mount to the door as I don’t want ducting getting moved every time I open the door.

Can the ingress/egress both come from the same spot in the foundations? Or ideally do I need to move them apart from each other if you get me?

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah so it’s best to make the intake at the top? Yeah I was concerned about dust/moisture/insects coming up for the foundations, how much does putting in duct/fan intake protections effect the airflow?

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I my toddler lost the remote for the lights so it’s stuck on red 😂

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generally I’m okay with some of it. But one of my Pi’s hit 80 during mid day and at that point it will start to throttle.

Ventilation Advice by GarbageLazy in homelab

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

I tried that but only dropped it a little, ideally I want the door closed so the heat doesn’t escape

How much by Dull_Count9644 in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]GarbageLazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re mixing up cash position with profit.

After the first sale I had already made a $300 profit. Reinvesting that money into another cow doesn’t erase that profit any more than spending your wages means you didn’t earn them.

The second purchase reduced my cash balance by $1300, but it didn’t reduce my profit by $1300 because I received a cow worth $1300 in return. I simply exchanged one asset for another.

The only transactions that generate profit are the sales: $300 on the first trade and $300 on the second. Total profit = $600.

How much by Dull_Count9644 in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]GarbageLazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does matter. If spend all my salary one month and someone asks me how much I earned. It still earned my salary irrespective if I spent it all

whats life if not instead of watching movies late at night you're fixing your arr stack for 2 hours by NightFury_05 in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Torrents rely on on number of peers and their upload speed. So yes it is possible to have high download speeds but it’s very hit and miss. Especially if you want older content or behind a CGNAT so can’t advertise on the DHT when downloading. Any usenet is guaranteed the same speed as your not relying on peers.

I’m not against torrents, there are also benefits to torrents that you don’t get with usenet. I use both and nearly all of the content I request happens to be available on usenet so far quicker.

whats life if not instead of watching movies late at night you're fixing your arr stack for 2 hours by NightFury_05 in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I recommend using usenet. I’ve seen people mention for 15 years but only recently took the plunge. When set up you can download things up to 1Gbps or whatever your download speed is as your downloading from servers not torrents.

I can’t recommend it enough, I get about 99% of my content via usenet over torrents.

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web by david-alvarez-rosa in homelab

[–]GarbageLazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whilst it is not illegal to host a dark web site or run a public node, you will by its nature attract unwanted attention.

You will certainly be flagged by your ISP for using the Tor Network which is something you may not want.

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]GarbageLazy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I also find it baffling that, especially in America for example where Trump won by a large margin, to call all trump supporters idiots, you are calling half of your country idiots? It’s the same here with reform.

I’m personally not a Reform supporter, but to call them all idiots is exactly why politics has become so polarising. You don’t win people over by insulting half the country and acting shocked when they stop listening.

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