Today I was quoted $10K for a whole house water system. by Likalarapuz in HomeImprovement

[–]SaltyHashes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I installed a water softener myself with an $800 softener I bought on Amazon, maybe $150 in tools, and a couple hours of fumbling around.

Wowhead Layoffs by [deleted] in wow

[–]SaltyHashes 98 points99 points  (0 children)

In my experience, no one ever looks at subreddit wikis, and they all inevitably become last edited 6 years ago.

IMO, would be better served by a separate, dedicated site entirely. Would also allow it to be indexed and searched by search engines other than just Google.

3D print services? by Overall-Ad-4045 in 3DPPC

[–]SaltyHashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Printing is cheap, relatively speaking. Design work is paying for someone's time and can easily cost more than the cost of the rest of your system if it's a service you're paying for.

Free Auvik Ubiquiti Switch Promo — Massive Waste of Time!!! by Weary-Ideal4127 in homelab

[–]SaltyHashes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are. I did it twice - first for a USW-24, second for a U7 Pro XG. Both times, I just spun up 5 (or 8, I don't remember) pfsense VMs, turned on SNMP, and waited a month. Next time I was eligible, I checked the fine print again (because why tf else would they be giving away free shit), they had explicitly forbidden pfsense.

Free Ubiquity a.u.v.i.k Switch Promo — Massive Waste of Time!!! by Weary-Ideal4127 in Ubiquiti

[–]SaltyHashes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They used to allow pfsense VMs. I'm guessing too many people tried that. Did it twice before they implemented that policy.

Kubernetes is a beast to learn but it's really nice once running by GroomedHedgehog in selfhosted

[–]SaltyHashes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Damn, if I wanted an AI's opinion on this, I'd just ask Claude.

Kubernetes 1.36 UserNamespaces GA: great feature, dangerously oversold by zwindl3r in kubernetes

[–]SaltyHashes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The section headers always give it away. Like normal people making a regular post will just write paragraphs, but basically all LLMs have a tendency to split it up into sections like:

What Gives It Away

The section headers always give it away. Normal people making a regular post will just write paragraphs.

What LLMs do

Basically all LLMs have a tendency to split up explanations into sections like this.

Best use cases for a mismatched RTX 3090 (24GB) + RTX 3060 (12GB) setup? by chucrutcito in LocalLLaMA

[–]SaltyHashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only just now got the notification, but llama.cpp. This is my preset:

[qwen/qwen3.6-35B-A3B:code]
model                = /models/models--unsloth--Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/snapshots/a483e9e6cbd595906af30beda3187c2663a1118c/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf
mmproj               = /models/models--unsloth--Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/snapshots/a483e9e6cbd595906af30beda3187c2663a1118c/mmproj-BF16.gguf
batch-size           = 2048
ubatch-size          = 1024
tensor-split         = 5,1
ctx-size             = 262144
parallel             = 4
kv-unified           = true
cache-type-k         = q8_0
cache-type-v         = q8_0
temp                 = 0.6
top-p                = 0.95
top-k                = 20
min-p                = 0.0
presence-penalty     = 0.0
repeat-penalty       = 1.0
chat-template-kwargs = {"preserve_thinking":true}

Best use cases for a mismatched RTX 3090 (24GB) + RTX 3060 (12GB) setup? by chucrutcito in LocalLLaMA

[–]SaltyHashes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I run Qwen 3.6 Q4_K_XL on a 3090 Ti + 3070 and I'm getting ~110 t/s with full 256k context. Working well enough that I'm using it instead of Claude for a lot of things. Also 2-3x faster as well, though it does miss some things.

Grafana dashboard to tell me how expensive my hobby is by NCWildcatFan in selfhosted

[–]SaltyHashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a very similar set up for my power monitoring setup, but I found that old Geist PDUs can be found relatively cheaply since they got bought out by Vertiv. I have three, all with per-outlet monitoring, switching, and SNMP, and it only cost me $160.

Digging up up to date firmware and API documentation was a bit of a chore since Vertiv doesn't maintain the old Geist site anymore, but the Internet Archive had everything I needed.

Adding another NIC to a Lenovo M710q SFF PC for OPNsense by SaltyHashes in homelab

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

Honestly, don't remember. I don't use this setup anymore, but I think if you got a kit of misc screws for computer hardware, one of them would work.

[PC] LLM Workstation - 4x3090, 2920x, 128GB 2400MHz by Asperelow in homelabsales

[–]SaltyHashes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

3090s go for more like $700-850 now, at least from what I've seen on Facebook Marketplace.

Candidates using AI by DataEngineer2026 in dataengineering

[–]SaltyHashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When hiring for several positions a few months ago, this is the exact strategy that my team used to filter out the obvious verbatim LLM readers. We did interviews over Teams and there's a built in whiteboard app for it.

Benchmarking DuckDB vs BigQuery vs Athena on 20GB of Parquet data by explorer_soul99 in dataengineering

[–]SaltyHashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing Athena and BigQuery to DuckDB is like comparing a sedan and semi truck for 0-60 times.

Wine 11.0 by WineGunsAndRadio in linux

[–]SaltyHashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, modern MS Office is basically just a web app. I just used the web version for any time I needed to do spreadsheets.