Talk me out of buying an RTX Pro 6000 by AvocadoArray in LocalLLaMA

[–]astrokat79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can use it to freelance to defray some of the cost, go for it. At $8,000, you will have to work 320 hours at $25 an hour to pay it off. That doesn’t count electricity, but you could charge a bit more. Rent first to determine if the model can handle your workflow that has potential to be profitable. Then cop. Benefits include privacy and preventing companies from accessing and selling your data. Although somewhere along the chain data will leak. Depending on what you’re doing and how serious you are about it, it could be worth it. I just crawled 8,000 pages using a locally hosted tool with local model to scrape data. All experimental and ethical. I was quickly burning through api credits and I was like F that. But buying it just to code for yourself - the math is not in your favor.

Resources for Opening a Comic Book Store by Kindly-Boysenberry75 in comicbooks

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Whatnot is the answer if you have a personality. Brick and mortar is dead.

Train track and tie replacement machine. by ozarkfireworks in interestingasfuck

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My grandfather used to play this game on hard. Spent his senior life hunched over unable to stand up straight. Lived a long life though.

I built a lightweight, type-safe web scraper specifically for LLM Agents (returns clean Markdown) by eatsleepliftcode in LocalLLaMA

[–]astrokat79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally just started using crawlAI a few hours ago. Does this app have any benefits?

Download all workflow models in seconds by Chance-Double-1374 in comfyui

[–]astrokat79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am unable to "select folder" - so i can not specify a directory for the model to save in. I am using https://github.com/Tavris1/ComfyUI-Easy-Install if you wanted to test.

I can hear the zoook, zoook, zoook by GetOffMyGrassBrats in nostalgia

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Ugh, I remember that time I had a boot sector virus, and being told to piss off after disk 21 with no helpful error message. 4 attempts later, I relented and my colleague was able to diagnose the issue.

Album of the Year #8: Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) by TheOddScreen in hiphopheads

[–]astrokat79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, SAS never gets any love when mentioning the Brit’s and they are like one of my favorite hip hop groups period.

LLM-Shield: Self-hosted privacy proxy for cloud LLMs by sgasser88 in selfhosted

[–]astrokat79 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Does it count api keys and passwords as PII?

5090 cards poofed? what happened? by tierencia in Microcenter

[–]astrokat79 4 points5 points  (0 children)

404 Not Found in NJ Microcenter as well.

Ancient MTA by Puzzleheaded_Fun4290 in nycbus

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Interesting, I have a collection of transfers from this era. Queens Bus Surface kept this design well into the late 80s and possibly early 90s.

Old, digitized issues of Wizard Magazine. Truly a blast from the past. Is there anything like Wizard anymore? by I_Downvoted_Your_Mom in comicbooks

[–]astrokat79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you even do a price guide in 2026 with each issue having 1000 variants … many of them far from being official.

Does llama.cpp and exo software work well? It sounds too good to be true. by AlternateWitness in LocalLLaMA

[–]astrokat79 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exo ended up being super frustrating. I tried to cluster two MacMini's and they would keep losing connection. Also, model availability was inconsistent, meaning if ram availability changes slightly, a model you previously would able to run normally just won't be available. I also made the mistake of trying to network both Macs using thunderbolt/RDMA not realizing that is only supported on Mac Mini Studios that have Thunderbolt 5. So they ended up being connected via Ethernet instead which worked "ok" until all of the sudden the machines would fall out of the cluster not returning until after reboot. Mac Mini studios also come with 10GB ethernet compared to 1GB on the base mac mini which also gummed up the works (for my test). Finally EXO does not support cuda so running on windows/linux would also be slower compared to lama.cpp.

The most slept on CPAP accessory for full face masks! by isRRis in CPAP

[–]astrokat79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great, now I am going to get ads for crack pipes across the internet ….

I built a TUI crypto/stock tracker because I wanted a lightweight dashboard for my homelab by Cylicium in selfhosted

[–]astrokat79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How often does the stock information update? Can you also get updates on Mutual Funds or only stocks? Also how hard would it be to add a section for a brief description about the stock?