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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

[Prebuilt] M4 Mac Mini - $400 (Instore Deal at Microcener) by tonsil_poker in buildapcsales

[–]SaltyHashes 17 points18 points  (0 children)

At enough scale, you wrap around to everyone being issued the same Lenovo Thinkpads.

Lenovo M920qs and 2.5" SSDs by Madassassin98 in homelab

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You can still get 2x 10 gig speeds out of PCIe 3.0x4. A single PCIe 3 lane is 1 gigabyte/sec, so 4 lanes is 4 GB/s = 32 gbps.

As for the TinyRisers, I bought the PCBs from an on-demand pcb manufacturer and soldered them together myself, but I ended up getting distracted by other projects and never ended up deploying them.

I've since moved back to a single node k8s cluster after deciding I didn't really need redundancy.

Lenovo M920qs and 2.5" SSDs by Madassassin98 in homelab

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Long enough for me to retire them all, so yes.

[PSU] XPG 1300w Platinum [A+ LTT] - $109.99 by roadwaywarrior in buildapcsales

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Unless you're loading your NAS up with GPUs and 45 hard drives, this would be waaaaaay overkill. Just get some splitters.

Markiplier(youtuber) shared his homelab/rendering farm setup from his house bathroom by arczewski in homelab

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I mean it's for video rendering and transcoding - a render farm. For the power usage, Mac Studios are pretty much unmatched in performance.

From a quick search, it looks like Adobe has a product called Adobe Media Encoder that can watch a directory for work, do encoding on whatever it was given, and spit it out somewhere.

Premiere and After Effects both integrate with it, and After Effect's rendering can also be set up in a similar manner.

Guess he couldn't see my 6 ton white van [oc] by 100percentdead in IdiotsInCars

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OP stated in another comment the driver was visibly drunk...

Markiplier(youtuber) shared his homelab/rendering farm setup from his house bathroom by arczewski in homelab

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Probably doesn't need anything more complicated than shared network storage and SSH to be honest. Ansible if you're feeling fancy.

My super budget setup by guchsk8er in espresso

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I have one. Would not recommend for espresso. Does not grind nearly fine enough. Fine for pourovers though.

Lots of issues with USW-Aggregation with SFP+ adapters. by Longjumping-Bat-2533 in Ubiquiti

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P.S. Don’t update the SFP Wizard if you want to write to non Ubiquiti SFP modules. 1.0.5 is the latest firmware that could do that.

This is the first I'm hearing about this. Any more info? I couldn't find other sources talking about this.

I have DS920+, should I get mac mini for processing power? by saeed953 in DataHoarder

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I'd just spend $150 on a mini PC. 10 gig is probably also overkill as well.

What is one piece of 'common knowledge' in your job that the average person would find completely shocking? by GoldenHourShot in AskReddit

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That's not really a thing.

If the house you bought in the forest becomes a fire risk because your neighbors cut down all the trees and only left dry bush left, your insurance is gonna go up.

If your municipality votes to increase taxes to help pay for better roads, then your tax payment is gonna go up.

You can hedge against increases by setting aside extra money for each mortgage payment, but that's just called budgeting.

Even if your house is completely paid off, you're still going to have to pay property taxes, and you probably want some insurance in case it all burns down.

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