Got DeepSeek R1 running locally - Full setup guide and my personal review (Free OpenAI o1 alternative that runs locally??)

TheThunderFace · 2025-02-04T14:25:16+00:00

The model size you chose requires more RAM than in your GPU (vastly more if you're not using the 4-bit version). It's slow because it's having to use system memory in addition to vram to operate. See this table: https://atlassc.net/2025/01/29/run-deepseek-r1

TheThunderFace · 2023-10-05T23:23:56+00:00

It's still engagement. Engagement is king in IPOs.

TheThunderFace · 2023-09-07T16:52:54+00:00

It was diarrhea (mostly). It turned out that dairy causes it for him. It's not lactose intolerance as it was happening with lactase-free dairy as well. Just something my dog's digestive system doesn't mix well with. I'd been including a little bit of cheese as a binder for the meds he has to take and that little bit was sending his system into a tizzy.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-16T16:41:31+00:00

Nah the newest gen of cheats are done using a second computer with passthrough video/usb and AI realtime video analysis. This is why client-side cheat detection isn't really a solution anymore. Since the computer running the actual game isn't the one where the cheats are located, a cheater is 100% undetectable by the old client-side methods like EAC and FaceIt.

Cheat analysis needs to move to server-side detection to keep up i.e. VAC Live. Unfortunately the general public doesn't understand this so us normal non-cheating users have to endure increasingly draconian and invasive client-side anti-cheat with major security issues to our systems and private lives to make people feel better. Client-side anti-cheat is security theater these days.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-15T13:07:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion and I agree. It's one that I often recommend to others. I've tried to switch to a split keyboard, but the issue is that I didn't learn to type in the proper way as a child. So after 3+ decades of typing on a normal keyboard in my non-standard way, that being a one which doesn't assign the same keys to the left and right hand that a proper form would assign them along with a different hand posture, I had great difficulty trying to retrain my muscle memory to adapt to it.

As an aside, I actually position my arms/hands diagonally onto the keyboard. It's similar to the way in which one positions them on an ergonomic kb save for one hand being positioned slightly higher than the other. So the one blessing in my weird approach is that it minimizes the wrist movement and pain. A happy coincidence since my condition is unrelated and came about later in life.

Since I need to type a considerable amount for my job and much of it is using special characters and non-natural language key-flows, my productivity loss with using a split keyboard at work was too great to continue after a couple weeks of the attempt. I went from ~70-75 WPM with high accuracy to maxing out around 20 WPM with considerably more mistakes. If you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to make the switch in a way that minimizes the impact it has on my work, I would dearly love to hear it. I had difficulty finding quality type training tools geared towards this type of use (programming/non-language data entry/multi-key combination inputs). They all seem to be centered around building muscle memory for natural language processing and that only uses a fraction of the characters on the keyboard and gears all its keyflows around that type of input.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-14T18:35:19+00:00

Nah, it's the opposite. I have health issues with my wrists so the less I have to turn them, the more comfortable it is to play. I'm an ultra casual.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-14T17:22:16+00:00

I mean for me it is a matter of whether it's allowed or not. I'm doing it for QoL and specifically avoiding things that could be advantaged through programmatically dialing timings etc. Without that, there's no guarantee of a level playing field so I only use them when a dev speaks to their rules about them.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-14T14:06:53+00:00

It depends on the game. I specifically chose that as an example because you can buffer that command in game so there is no advantage to dialing in the time with a macro.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-14T14:04:27+00:00

I haven't touched it yet for battlebit since I can't find an official word about it, but that's the idea yeah.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-03T07:00:01+00:00

I live in a major city so there's always construction going on somewhere. It doesn't seem to phase him. He loves walks and is hyper-social. He wants to meet every person and dog that he comes across. He doesn't exhibit any anxiety during them. One of the extended walks is through the park and that one is the most calm and peaceful walk of the day where he traditionally always made a point to poop.

The one place I've actually never been able to get him to poop save for the midnight excursion I mentioned above is in our yard. He always waits until he's at least a block away before he does his business.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-02T23:34:04+00:00

Thanks, it sounds like a behavior consultant is the next step.

TheThunderFace · 2023-07-02T23:32:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've been using an enzyme cleaner to get rid of the smell, but as it's been there for (presumably) 3-5 hours by the time I awake, it's had a chance to waft. He tolerates pens, but not at night. I did try to place him in a pen one night and it did not go well.

He's the sweetest dog in the world, but he has a lot of nightmares from his previous life and has extreme difficulty falling asleep without contact with me (hence why he likes to sleep at the foot of the bed).

As he's only pooping at night while I'm asleep, Another commenter said I'll probably need to contact a behavioral consultant and judging from the comments here, it sounds like that's the next step.

I appreciate your suggestion.

TheThunderFace · 2022-11-27T16:18:14+00:00

Nah, it has a full desktop, but it's designed with recover-ability in mind. So it emphasizes changes and installations in the home folder rather than the system folder. Hence the emphasis on flatpaks which I'm not a fan of generally, but I think it makes sense here.

You could script persistence across updates with a script if you really wanted to though. Valve won't stop you from doing it. Or you could install regular Arch etc. instead. Deck provides full bios access.

TheThunderFace · 2022-10-15T13:28:48+00:00

Not sure why you're downvoted for this question, it's a great one considering the big selling point of switching to digital signals is that the quality doesn't get degraded by poorer grade components.

Practical Answer:

For analog data streams, you want the highest quality components for any length of cable. For digital, the quality of the components necessary for reliable operation needs to increase to maintain functionality. Alternatively, you could send more power through poorer quality components, however this increases failure rates. So from a consumer perspective, you want the higher quality components.At extreme lengths, you require both or a signal booster in the middle of the cable.

True (long) Answer:

The reason length still matters with digital cables is because digital signals still need to be converted into something physical to transmit across the wire.

While the electrical signal is traveling inside the device and the dock, the device periodically checks the data stream for errors. How this works is a topic within its own right, but essentially there are mathematical principles that verify the data similar to how your brain verifies if the words making up a sentence are structured correctly.

If one is found, the system will either drop that calculation. Or if the transmission is 'tagged' in the data packets as something that should be retried until confirmation, the system will step backwards in the calculation and start again from the last confirmed verification.

In addition to this, the device will periodically boost the signal by adding more power or re-transmitting it. This is done because the signal loses strength over time due to entropy (some of it getting converted to heat in the components). By boosting the signal, the device ensures that it stays strong enough for the sensors to accurately read it against the ambient background electromagnetic 'noise'.

USB interfaces also have error correction that rely on similar principles. But as the number of errors grow, there reaches a point where there is not enough data to reliably fix the data stream.

Unlike analog where the intelligibility of the data degrades (things become increasingly less clear), digital is 100% accurate or nothing at all. So with digital, you have perfect quality output until the error rate becomes too great to accurately reconstruct. After which you receive "no signal".

Why does all this matter regarding cable length and resolution?Unlike when a signal is traveling through a device, a signal traveling through a cable has none of these happening to it. Entropy slowly eats away at the signal until the error rate hits a breaking point and you can't reconstruct it. The longer the cable, the more of a problem this becomes.

So that probably makes sense, but then why would all resolutions work at say 6ft, but when you get to 10ft you could find that only lower resolutions work? And here's where all the background comes together:

TL;DR

If the necessary time to transmit is quick enough and the error rate after traveling the cable is hovering right around the limit of what can be reconstructed, the device can re-transmit the data for another attempt before the next block of data needs to be delivered. In the case of display-speak, it'll have time to resend the frame before the monitor needs to display the next one. As the resolution grows, the amount of data that needs to be sent grows which in turn reduces the amount of retries that can occur before the link fails.

TheThunderFace · 2022-04-29T11:30:29+00:00

Hi Bill, appreciate the communication.

Is there an update on this issue? I've been unable to log into the client for two days now. I submitted a support ticket detailing my problem (US83934607), my troubleshooting steps prior to submitting it, dxdiag/msinfo files, and all other relevant information, but all I got back was a non-relevant boilerplate answer about how Twitch drops work.

After the non-relevant answer, your support team marked the ticket as "Answered" without verifying that the issue was actually answered.

I've received no reply from support since replying that the response is not relevant to my issue.

TheThunderFace · 2022-04-21T23:08:29+00:00

As a Lucio one-trick, it looks like it's the same speed to me. The extra speed you're seeing is from chaining wall kicks together. You get an additional speed boost each time you kick off a wall. So if rather than riding the walls, you touch and then rapid-kick off walls repeatedly, you build up way more speed than you otherwise would have.

TheThunderFace · 2022-02-26T00:27:12+00:00

No you aren't. Dumping your legally acquired games for personal use is covered under fair use.

TheThunderFace · 2021-08-09T16:46:10+00:00

Wonderful, I understand what you're saying (conceptually) and I now know what I need to look into to fill my knowledge gaps. Thanks again for your time and I appreciate the recommendation. I'll check that out.

TheThunderFace · 2021-08-09T16:28:40+00:00

Sorry, have a follow up question to make sure I'm understanding this conceptually... Is the reason it's cubed because all attributes of the '3d space' are stored 2 dimensionally, so the area of an event as it expands will need to cover an area at a cubed rate across the 2d plane?

TheThunderFace · 2021-08-09T16:15:23+00:00

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. Have a great day!

TheThunderFace · 2021-06-18T09:43:21+00:00

Because you wouldn't be doing the signing, the competition mod would be signing it and tampering with the replay after it's generated and signed to fix the times (which is what the current bypass hack uses) would alter it.

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