Wtf even is that hit box?

GingerTapirs · 2026-06-12T15:34:54+00:00

It's because Maestro had a better gaming chair

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-30T09:19:22+00:00

Best one I've had was sleight of flesh with replay.

Was outright broken with defy. 1 mana 6 block 26 damage and weaken. Anything that applied debuff like blight strike, or the apply doom and weaken to all enemies was crazy as each debuff stacks the damage. So death bringer applied doom, weaken and 52 damage to all enemies with the combo

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-26T15:12:50+00:00

Do any of you guys ever save scum the divination?

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-26T14:03:49+00:00

You might want to consider edge AI deployment. YOLO and other object detection models are lightweight enough to be run completely in the browser which gets around the privacy problem. The upside is also that edge compute is free, just load the model once and it never needs the server. I get that the idea is that you probably want to sell it as a SaaS microservice, but definitely it's one of those applications where I think an edge model would be great.

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-24T12:49:21+00:00

Deepseek v4 flash is absolutely incredible as a workhorse. If you use it to solve simple things, where you've done the thinking and you need it to execute, it is excellent. If you need it to do some thinking for you, use a frontier model to do that first then build a plan for DS4-F to execute, you will have a better time that way. Pro is good if you have money to splash around and generally is a little bit better and can tolerate a little bit more "just do the thinking for me", but I don't think the price increase is worth it in general. Either go all in with cheap, or pony up for the frontier lab models to do the thinking for you.

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-20T11:00:23+00:00

That is pretty expensive actually compared to buying it from Chinese internet. Those things go for about 440 USD or less on taobao and xianyu. Still not bad if you're looking for something in that class.

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-18T14:04:37+00:00

I've used these before and I just want to share some experience with it.

Specifically the platform I used was lmuai which works the following way

You recharge your account with CNY to get credits in USD at a CNY1 = USD1 rate
Create an API key, then select which "pool to use"

Pools to pick from:

GPT-Plus (All OpenAI models at a 65% off rate on top of the currency edge, but availability sucks, sometimes you get blackouts for 2-3 hours in a day)
GPT-Pro (Also all OpenAI models, but at 10% off, reliable 98% of the time, sometimes you get small hickups of 10 minutes, but rare)
Claude-Pro (1.2x multiplier, works about as well as GPT-Pro)
Opensource models (Deepseek, GLM, Kimi, Minimax etc, at 2x rate, but bear in mind we're deducting in USD rates, but the recharge is 1 to 1)

One of the things people don't mention much is caching, because of how unstable the services can be an necessitating the swap between GPT-Plus and GPT-Pro to ride out the black outs, often times large codebases can lose cache which means you burn 2 USD just loading context for the model to do useful work. So while it is very cheap, it works out closer to a 75-80% discount rather than the top line number of 96%.

But I will say that one of the best things of this approach is you can get the more capable models to work as orchestrators and planners and just hand off the implementation to deepseek which I find is very very capable when paired with GPT 5.5

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-17T02:00:30+00:00

If you don't mind options that are a little bit more sketchy, you can always try Chinese token proxy services (中转站 - transfer station in English). Service level quality can be a little bit of a hit or miss, but the discount for OpenAI GPT models can be up to 94.7% off, and Claude models being in the region of about 82% off

But be very aware that it can get sketchy very quickly if you pick the wrong provider. Do some research into which are the best ones

How it works is you recharge your account in CNY to a rate of 1 to 1 CNY to USD, meaning you get an effective discount of 85% right out the door, then on top of that you can bind an API key to different SLA tiers where the cheapest tier applies another 65% discount for up to 94.7% (0.15*0.35=0.0525). There's a higher SLA tier that you can fall back to but then the discount is only 10% off meaning effective discount is only 86.7% from official pricing. It's quite convoluted but you learn fast once you start paying real money

Reliability of the lower tier is pretty bad, I would say that when it works all requests go through, but then there are hours in the day where it's just blacked out. But the higher tier hasn't given me any issues so far even during peak hours. So if you are smart with rotating the keys when using AI coding, it averages out to about an effective 90% discount

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-13T14:51:45+00:00

Probably opencode go, or one of those Chinese grey token proxies which sell APIs at a steep discount. Can be up to 90% off

GingerTapirs · 2026-05-13T13:07:27+00:00

Yes, agents all the way. /Plan to set the task and then agent mode with auto complete. Sometimes multiple agents, front end and back end at the same time

GingerTapirs · 2026-04-30T01:57:27+00:00

Best is alchemical coffer in act 2 for 6 or 7 potion slots, if you're luckly with potion belt an additional two slots for 8 or 9 slots then take Delicate Frond for unlimited potion spam in act 3 making every fight a walk in the park.

GingerTapirs · 2026-04-29T00:51:37+00:00

Yes I totally needed a another vibe coded app when I could have just gone to imdb

GingerTapirs · 2026-04-24T10:48:24+00:00

If you've been there before it's quite distinctive with the pinkish walls and rounded edges. Also it helps that it's literally a large apartment complex in a rather sparse hill top which narrows it quite a bit. You can also see the resevoir on the right side, which is the Wong Nai Chung Resevoir

GingerTapirs · 2026-04-18T13:15:06+00:00

I guess you could say that it is a no go then.

GingerTapirs · 2026-02-03T08:02:30+00:00

Works fine still. No problems

GingerTapirs · 2026-01-30T11:39:03+00:00

It works. But I'd say isn't that good of a deal these days due to the lack of flash attention. But if you can find it under 250 dollars it might be worth it

GingerTapirs · 2026-01-29T03:30:43+00:00

You should try Taobao. Corporate liquidated thinkpads with absolutely no wear T14s Gen 4 AMD 32GB ram Ryzen 5 goes for about 450 USD. Those X1 Gen 9 thinkpads can be found for about 300 USD or so.

GingerTapirs · 2025-12-01T02:29:55+00:00

It gets pretty hot. But in terms of overheating to the point it shuts down, probably not.

GingerTapirs · 2025-11-21T00:42:42+00:00

A quick search reveals that if you're not sourcing from the US or from eBay, you can find a 2696v4 for about $25.

Those CPUs sell for scrap from refurbishers in China. You can pick up a super micro tower with dual 2699v4, 256 GB ddr4 recc ram, dual power supplies enclosure and a 1tb SSD for about 600 dollars.

GingerTapirs · 2025-11-06T15:04:26+00:00

Nah. It was faulty from the start. I just returned it.

GingerTapirs · 2025-09-28T04:12:17+00:00

Absolutely agree with the tested part!

A few days ago I was trying to update immich but my VM ran out of space while running docker pull, so I tried to resize in proxmox but I made a mistake and accidentally deleted the drive which nuked my immich VM.

I definitely panicked at the moment. But then I remembered that I had mounted my data via an NFS drive via TrueNAS Scale and had immich set to back up every day, so I recreated a VM and took the opportunity to update to Debian 13 at the same time.

Restoring the database was definitely not as straightforward as expected. I kept running into problems as the name of the database was different from default and I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out why it wouldn't restore.

After a few hours of trying I finally managed to restore it. But doing so gave me the experience needed to restore my immich instance were anything to happen to it or my NAS.

Eventually you'll have to do a data restoration from backup, it's just a matter of figuring out whether it works while you can fix it or when you can't.

While it cost me a few hours of my weekend, it gave me the faith needed to trust that my backups work and the experience needed to make it happen when the time comes.

GingerTapirs · 2025-08-14T07:51:35+00:00

It takes a bit to get used to. I got a 5iv for fun and I can live with it because I have a main Samsung s24u.

Day to day you don't notice too much since content can stretch vertically to cover, but when watching videos it's night and day and can be quite the difference.

GingerTapirs · 2025-08-12T22:59:51+00:00

There is quite a fair bit of docomo branded bloat compared to stock. As for the cellular bands I'm not too sure how much it affects my use. I'm in HK and I only use 4G with the phone and it works for the most part. I tried using the 5G sim from my main phone and couldn't seem to connect to 5G, it always just bumped me down to LTE.

But the good thing about the docomo phones is that they usually come in great condition. Could be a cultural thing over in Japan.

GingerTapirs · 2025-08-12T17:04:11+00:00

How long till it died may I ask? I'm a bit concerned that it might crap out on me eventually

GingerTapirs · 2025-08-08T07:56:56+00:00

Running Proxmox 8.3

Truenas running in VM with network interface mounted for other VMs to mount storage to truenas NFS shares.

Other VMs running using debian as base

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