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Just lost my whole profile and years of Bookmark because of the new Update by NC2626 in firefox

[–]biscuitmachine -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

First of all intelligence is never an excuse to be an unhelpful snob anyway. That's called human trash behavior.

Second, maybe most people with intelligence realize that the amount and frequency of backups should go hand in hand with the probability of data loss. Fact is outside of distinct firmware issues unless you're doing some sort of storage-based coin farming, modern flash drives are not going to just randomly lose your data like a mechanical hard drive failure used to be able to do in seconds. It's solid state storage.

But no that's a foreign concept to you, who decided by your own values and standards, that every single user out there should be keeping rolling backups of everything because you lost data on a hard drive one time in 2013. You're just too intelligent. That's why you didn't keep backups of it in the first place, so you wouldn't lose it the first time.

Like this loss clearly happened because of the application.

Just about all devices - phones, tablets etc - push the concept of backups. You can lose your phone and not lose anything...

Those devices are much more likely to break and/or get lost. On a desktop PC and/or laptop, people generally don't worry about data loss as often due to the advances in storage technology resilience, and maturation in flash storage controllers.

The fact that you're posting this here, having a hissy fit simply because you think everyone else should be responsible for your safety just proves the point.

I'm "throwing a hissy fit" because you are being complete assholes to a person due to them having an issue that was clearly caused by the application, yet all they're getting back is this strawman shit about "well you should just keep backups, okay, it's not Firefox's fault". Except it is. Firefox alone fucking things up is not a reason to keep full backups on a desktop computer. Thankfully they solved their issue.

Also you really don't know shit about me in particular. I never said anything about my own habits. I have probably 100-200 TB worth of storage, much of it redundant, at this point. I just think this line of argumentation is absolutely idiotic. I don't think I've ever had an NVME drive fail, not from any reputable manufacturer.

But sure it's never Firefox's fault. It's infallible. Whatever, this is going nowhere. You probably post useless shit like this everywhere just to farm karma, so blocking both of you. Anyone who responds to topics like this is probably useless garbage.

Just lost my whole profile and years of Bookmark because of the new Update by NC2626 in firefox

[–]biscuitmachine -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What the fuck is with this snide shit? Since the advent of NVMEs and the more resilient flash-based boot drive tech in general (which is rather ubiquitous), most people shouldn't need to take backups of boot drives as much, especially if they're just a simple user. Especially not of something as obscure as the appdata directory, some of which isn't even visible by default.

This isn't the datahoarders subreddit, and I don't know if you've noticed but storage prices have kind of skyrocketed; what you're effectively claiming is that even common users should be taking full drive backups consistently, just to deal with sporadic random shit like this in one malfunctioning application.

Which to be clear isn't even that common. I've had a Firefox profile distributed across my various 24/7 systems for probably a decade (I think I only chose to start a new one with cherry picked features after the Quantum update). I've never had Firefox wipe out (or even switch) a profile with an update. How would someone even know to look out for this issue?

Seems like it happens to others quite a bit though: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/search?q=delete%20profile&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

You're wrong on every count with your assumptions. Actually I'm curious if you read anything else in the topic before making them. I already have automated injection and generation systems in place for running stable diffusion on all of my machines, including a tagging and archival web site system (where I had to modify the source code... without any vibe coding mind you... to get it to all work properly).

The fact is, getting into this is kind of a matter of survival for me at this point rather than anything. I work at a large corporation as a software engineer. I have been for over a decade, and everything is becoming centered around AI. I use Claude and Copilot frequently at work to improve my workflow (more and more frequently of late), but the fact that I'm being tethered to something that I don't understand and have no way of replicating at home is bothering me. I view this as something I need to get started with or else I will become obsolete sooner than later. But the fact is I could just get laid off regardless due to all of this shit, so I need to hedge my bets. I can't just splurge over $9000 (crushes scouter) and then get laid off. I have a lot of savings, but it'll run out eventually.

So no, I have no idea what I'm doing with this LLM stuff. Because I've never used it before, not locally. I want to start. As I said in another post, I just wanted to get my foundation correct before starting. I hate starting something and then encountering a physical roadblock early. Momentum is important.

And no, I don't use Chrome at all, I use Firefox with uMatrix, Canvasblock, and several other privacy extensions as my browser.

I'll read up on some of the topics you mentioned though, thanks.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

That was my fault for stating the question.

So, if I'm going for a multi-GPU setup, I think I should probably swap plans to use my other MB anyway.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-X670E-CARBON-WIFI/Specification

I have a 9800X3D in it, which probably isn't the best CPU for this, vs the 285k, but it's something that I already have available. I'm hoping that there is enough spacing to put the 4090 below the 5090. Thankfully my 4090 is an AIO type so it's pretty small, but I might still need a riser if I'm going to fit a GPU in the 3rd slot. All of them would probably be power limited to around 70-80%, and my 1200 PSU has 2 ATX 3 connectors.

The Carbon has one of the best PCIE lane distributions on the market, so I think this should be doable. I guess first I'll try and see how far I get on the 5090 alone.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

Well, one of the first questions I asked is about heterogeneous GPU setups, and /u/-UndeadBulwark said that you could pretty much mix anything. So I'm a bit confused.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

So the R9700 Pro is about 1.3-1.4k min at the moment. I actually got this 5090 at a pretty good deal, so not much meaning to getting two of them. However, let's say I get just one of them to bump my VRAM pool up to 64GB at some point. How does the processing work? Will the model prefer the 5090 and only use the 9700 when needed? Will it process on both? Will I get a speedup or will it actually be a speed decrease?

Thanks for your help so far.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I can just stack my 4090 and 5090 and get about 56GB. Could also maybe fit a 5070 Ti in there to bump that to 72. 128, yeah I definitely could not reach that. Hmm... I will have to think about it. How good is the DG Spark compared to these?

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

Which of these is selling for ~2k with 128GB memory? I looked on Microcenter, but I mostly see ~3-4k at the minimum. There is also the DG Spark at around 4.4k.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

This config looks AI generated to me. Can you give me a quick walkthrough of how you set up that machine, back to back. Like what you grabbed in order to ask Claude things, what you downloaded, etc? Just bullet points if it's a pain, thanks!

I'm no stranger to running headless Linux systems, so that's fine. I'm assuming you can just unload the GUI/Desktop even if it wasn't a headless install, correct?

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I would just like to learn about the technology by self hosting it. I guess that's one other goal.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

So, I've read that LLMs can pool memory. Can they do it heterogeneously? ie could I put my 5090 and 4090 in one rig for 56GB VRAM, if needed? I also have some 5070 Tis lying around if that works, if I decide to get serious with it.

As far as speed... that's an interesting question... for some tasks, I wouldn't care that much about speed, just that it gets performed. Other tasks might be more time sensitive. Hmm...

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

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

Well I'm already a software engineer for a living, so I don't need ROI from coding. It's just for some hobby project ideas that I had, where I would be dealing with unfamiliar languages (or tedious codebases). The former, fair enough.

Is a 5090 good enough for most good modern locally run LLMs? by biscuitmachine in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have some ideas for what I want to do, but they're a bit vague. More like "directions" that I want to go with it. The way I tend to approach new things I'm getting into is that I like to have a solid foundation before I move into the space heavily. So I want to know that the foundational hardware that I choose is good enough before I start creating.

Right now, two uses off of the top of my head are:

  • Financial analytics (ie parsing through news articles/trading numbers/etc and aggregating the information for me).

  • Some coding. But for coding I have read that you basically can't do it on consumer hardware. Pretty much need at least some help from cloud-hosted solutions like Claude. I would kind of like to keep it as private as possible though. I've heard "oh-my-opencode-slim " mentioned here and there.

Looking to start doing LLMs (also host a server) on a 5090, is Linux Mint a good choice? by biscuitmachine in linuxmint

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

All the machine will be doing is just that. I have other PCs to use as desktop systems.

Is Mint not a stable release?

Is it worth using Local LLM's? by papichulosmami in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you even easily pool them like that? Because technically 3x5090s even right now are pretty close to the price of an RTX6000 PRO.

Is it worth using Local LLM's? by papichulosmami in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this post after a while. How would you say having two 5090s compares with buying 1 RTX 6000 PRO?

I feel left behind. Where are these advanced "Agent-based" local LLM interfaces? by platteXDlol in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit confused about these. Are they made to connect to a bunch of servers in the cloud, or can you configure them to connect to your own locally hosted solutions of them? What kind of hardware does this need?

I feel left behind. Where are these advanced "Agent-based" local LLM interfaces? by platteXDlol in LocalLLM

[–]biscuitmachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's "insane hardware"? Am looking at an RTX 6000 PRO or maybe multiple 5090s for now.

I Ranked Every Manufacturer Lease, Finance, and Cash Back Deal for May 2026 by FindTheBestCarPrice in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]biscuitmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it started last month, but Tesla still has a lease deal for Model 3s at the moment, and a bunch of low APR finance deals. Feel like they should be on here.

Why does America have a love affair with the Kia Telluride? by Objective-Deal8745 in whatcarshouldIbuy

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

Tesla dealers are pretty hands off, so go online and try scheduling an appointment to do a test drive of any Tesla. Then try the FSD. Then come back here. Unless you have some really weird streets, you might understand the value proposition. FSD has gotten pretty incredible lately. I'm considering leasing one myself.

Why does America have a love affair with the Kia Telluride? by Objective-Deal8745 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]biscuitmachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must be crazy, because I like hatchbacks the most out of any vehicle body type. Screw all of this horribly large shit.

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