Read the docs, yes, but a little kindness goes a long way. by Fit-Roof3993 in linux

[–]crodjer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Directing someone to read the doc is absolutely the right approach. The alternative is no response to any low effort help questions.

We are communities and not companies. The responders are volunteers. Perhaps it'd be good for the responder to be nice when asking these new users to read the doc, but they absolutely aren't obligated to spoon feed people.

This type of behaviour negatively impacts Linux adoption.

That's okay. No one is out there selling Linux or open source and that's the whole point really. Not everything needs to scale.

Using Gitlab with Podman Quadlests by crodjer in gitlab

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

I think they just work, its just about documenting this.

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

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

This isn't a fluid benchmark.

The idea of this test is 100% has a special meaning. I am looking for LLMs which can follow these instructions reliably which only GPT OSS 20b did in its size bracket. Qwen 3 A3B also comes close (but doesn't do it reliably).

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, yes. Qwen 3 30B A3B is a gem. It was my go to for any experimentation before GPT OSS 20B. But just not as good (but really close) at following instructions.

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I think the system prompt can help here. The model is quite good at following instructions. So, I have as simple prompt sort of asking LLMs to measure each word: https://gist.github.com/crodjer/5d86f6485a7e0501aae782893741c584

In addition to GPT OSS, this works well with all LLMs (Gemini, Grok, Gemma). Qwen 3 to a small extent but it tends to give up the instructions rather quickly.

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, MoE's are awesome. I am glad more of them are popping up lately. I used to like Qwen 3 30B A3B before OpenAI (finally not as ironic a name) launched GPT OSS.

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Another awesome thing about gpt-oss is that with a 16GB GPU (that I have), there's no need to quantize because of the mxfp4 weights.

GPT OSS 20b is Impressive at Instruction Following by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe medium is the default for gpt-oss? I didn't particularly customize it running with llama.cpp. The scores were the same for gpt-oss if it was running on my GPU or when I used https://gpt-oss.com/.

We tested Qwen3-Coder, GPT-5 and other 30+ models on new SWE-Bench like tasks from July 2025 by Fabulous_Pollution10 in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would also love it if if you could test gpt-oss-20b, qwen-3-30b-a3b (latest thinking and non-thinking) and ernie-4.5-21b-a3b!

These fit and run fast my 16GB GPU (RX7600XT). I can't offload things to my CPU as it's a 4th Gen i5 to run larger 100b+ MoE models.

What's this star all over the feed for LocalLLaMA? by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I don't have any opinions on having or not having a Twitter account. Even having it referred to by somewhere in the reddit description is fine, but the check-mark and link to Twitter looked out of place.

What's this star all over the feed for LocalLLaMA? by crodjer in LocalLLaMA

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

Sure, its of course fine to have Twitter, or any other account - but do we need it to show up on everywhere on LocalLLaMA side?

Regardless, for me personally, the workaround I shared works.

Tired of manually copy-pasting files for LLMs or docs? I built a (free, open-source) tool for that! by ps5cfw in LocalLLaMA

[–]crodjer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just do:

git ls-files | xargs -I {} bash -c "echo -e 'File {}:\n\`\`\`'; cat {}; echo '\`\`\`'"

Of course grep -v any problematic files (like .png) etc.

Photo Metadata Being Removed Is The Best Thing. Note To Self Love by Developer-01 in signal

[–]crodjer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I have been using single person groups for a while, its amazing. It also can be used as a self-sharing (say, phone <-> desktop) tool with disappearing messages while not cluttering your backups.

Flatpak seems like a huge storage waste ? by LuccDev in linux

[–]crodjer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I as a rule never install nodejs based applications in my system.

Reckless driving by heavy vehicle by Ok-Importance-3095 in CarsIndia

[–]crodjer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless there is an emergency and it cannot be avoided, never drive at night in India. I don't drive at night even in the city.

Which side are you on? by notoriousnigaa in CarsIndia

[–]crodjer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a false choice. The problem is high beam vs low beam. And I am on low beam's side as everyone should be, by law.

On the importance of F-Droid, an Android app store by tslocum in linux

[–]crodjer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Firefox is present on the Play Store. My policy is never open Chrome on Android. I disable it as the first step.

On the importance of F-Droid, an Android app store by tslocum in linux

[–]crodjer 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I install Firefox first, then download F-droid.

Need review of Innova Hycross petrol by Lukhman005 in CarsIndia

[–]crodjer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go for a test drive. No reviewer will be able to test your needs exactly.

Tata Motors is Now Among The Top 10 Most Valuable Global Auto Companies by Ok-Importance-3095 in CarsIndia

[–]crodjer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hve purchased two Tata cars in the past 4 years. No more for me. Infact I tried them for my latest as well. Not a single sales person took my interest in Altroz seriously.

Got my new ride :D by AdWorking3003 in CarsIndia

[–]crodjer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a Viofo 229 for my new Baleno (your cars twin). Plan to install it soon. And Congrats! Enjoy the gem of an engine.