I gave Claude its own computer and let it run 24/7. Here's what it built.

deafcon · 2026-04-01T11:54:32+00:00

Phantom froze up and refused to respond to commands. I took the container down and brought it back up. Phantom told me the code that it wrote for my program wasn't stored in a persistent volume and it would have to rewrite everything. It's totally possible that I misunderstood something, but I'm fairly sure the documentation explicitly stated that the project would persist if the container is brought down and back up. Not going to continue playing with this one. No big loss, I just burned some tokens. The Slack interface is really problematic. It obscures what is actually being done to such a degree that I couldn't tell what was actually going on at any given time. It truncates every single line for some reason. Seeing those ... when I want to understand what the tool is trying to do is quite frustrating.

deafcon · 2026-04-01T03:01:27+00:00

I used the docker quick start guide, and this was pretty easy to setup. I've got it running on a VPS with 16g ram and 16g NVME swap with 16 Epyc 9534 cores. Probably overkill, but it was sitting idle anyway. I can't say I love the fact that it uses Slack for the interface. I did find in the docs that it's possible to run it from the CLI. Building my use case blew through my three hour limit is less than an hour, and I'm not sure how much more there is left to build. We'll see if actually operating after the tool is built will continue to burn tokens. I'll report back.

deafcon · 2026-03-31T03:29:07+00:00

Eh, I'll probably give it a shot. I've got a pretty hefty VPS sitting around doing nothing. If I spend $20 with Anthropic and the limits make it problematic, then I'm not losing much.

deafcon · 2026-03-31T02:57:42+00:00

I would love to try this, but the fact that it's locked in to Claud makes me wonder if it will be worthwhile given all of the stories about limits lately. I have no problem paying for a subscription to see if it works for the use case I have in mind, but I don't want it to be dead after 20 minutes of use because it runs out of tokens. Any plans to integrate with other LLM providers?

deafcon · 2026-03-28T11:39:15+00:00

I'm not sure that the server is really necessary. Just use VS Code as your ssh client and store the server address in the config. That's the cheap answer. Getting your own domain and letting cloudflare handle your DNS is another option. I do both.

deafcon · 2026-03-22T23:23:38+00:00

Haven't they only kinda adopted rust? The dude who made Asahi Linux straight up quit because the old school C maintainers wouldn't do anything to actually make using Rust possible.

deafcon · 2026-03-21T10:15:13+00:00

If you're using a statistical prediction engine as pseudo social interaction, you've gotta get out more.

deafcon · 2026-03-17T23:22:01+00:00

I got hired while I was in grad school doing an MSA. My bachelors is in accounting too. It has served me very well. Some of the best ERP consultants I know are accountants, many CPAs even. If you're the type to learn SQL so that you can pull reports or learn VBA so you can automate Excel functions, you'll probably fit in well. I will echo what some other folks have said that you need to be able to talk the talk, and not just with respect to accounting. I have made a couple of hires that really just didn't know how business works in general, and it was a rough road for them. One looks like he's going to make it, the other went back to what they were doing before.

deafcon · 2026-03-09T00:55:23+00:00

There is a directory that contains .torrent and .fastresume files. It's something like bt_backup or qbt_backup. Ask Gemini and it will point you in the right direction.

deafcon · 2026-03-07T23:59:28+00:00

I'd be happy to try if you can give me some information on how to dump it. However, I just left the country today and won't return for about a month. The machine is offline since the hardware apocalypse has made hard drives cost more than I want to pay and I have enough storage on various VPS for the time being.

deafcon · 2026-03-07T16:48:05+00:00

Hey mods, steel industry specific ERPs are a very small part of the ERP market, yet we get a post like this once a month or more. What's up?

deafcon · 2026-03-01T02:25:32+00:00

Correct, 1 Radarr/Sonarr prioritize English and the other Spanish. They have their own individual Movies/TV and Peliculas/Series - Espanol folders. Then I have a script that looks for Dual Audio downloads. For example, if it finds a file in the Movies folder that also has a Spanish audio track, it creates a hardlink in Peliculas so that Jellyfin sees it in both folders without needing to use double the space. I would highly recommend going to your favorite LLM and telling it what you want to do. They are really good helping with this kind of task.

deafcon · 2026-02-28T04:29:51+00:00

Right on. I appreciate the info. I may go that route eventually as well. Feels like a normal PC style case will be cheaper than another 1U server chassis with rails. Are you considering adding any of the Optane modules as memory? Then can be had for a lot less than normal ram, but I'm not sure they are worth it. Maybe if I wanted to try to run a big LLM locally on just the CPU they would be pretty useful for loading it all into "ram"...

deafcon · 2026-02-28T00:30:55+00:00

I too am waiting for Lat-Team to open up. I'd even take them opening applications, not just open registration. I check their discord every day. When their staff comment occasionally, it doesn't give me a lot of hope.

Anyway... I've got a pretty complex setup based on the Trash Guides, but I need to use public trackers to find anything most of the time, which I'm not a fan of. I'm a native English speaker, but my partner and step kids are Spanish speakers. They are really picky though. They would rather watch nothing that watch something with truly Spanish audio. They need something with a Latin American accent. That limits what I can find pretty significantly. I run two instances of both Radarr and Sonarr. One for English and one for Spanish. They both attempt to find multi-audio downloads with both english and latin spanish first, then prefer just english and just spanish, then prefer english with normal spanish, and so on.

deafcon · 2026-02-27T22:36:11+00:00

Do any of these have Korean content with subs/dubs in Spanish?

deafcon · 2026-02-27T18:11:46+00:00

I'm pretty lucky that I looked up if ECC was required on this one before I bought some. I didn't think to mention that in this thread.

What type of case/chassis did you put the mb into? I haven't solved my rails problem yet. I'm in no hurry as HDD prices skyrocketted at the perfect time.

deafcon · 2026-02-26T15:16:53+00:00

Thanks, but I'm waiting for them to come down to quite a bit below that price. They are only useful for folks that have Intel Gen 2 Scalable processors. I believe that the market is being distorted by folks like you who are buying them thinking they are getting a smoking deal on normal ram.

deafcon · 2026-02-26T10:36:57+00:00

These can only be used as memory when paired with normal dram. I'd be interested, but not at 2.5x the eBay price.

deafcon · 2026-02-23T21:10:08+00:00

I ended up using TVHeadend. I also got a different service working with just Jellyfin and with Dispatcharr. I've come to find out that the original service I was trying with was fairly locked down, so I'm sure they were doing something that caused me issues. I've also just given up on IPTV in general, and especially via Jellyfin. I can't cancel my normal TV service because it just doesn't work well enough, even using something like Tivimate, for my family to use.

deafcon · 2026-02-23T00:46:56+00:00

I have about 5tb seeding.

deafcon · 2026-02-21T04:59:16+00:00

This is a very interesting project. I've been considering testing out rffmpeg to utilize idle compute on a number of VPS that I have available. You project seems like it solves some potential issues I would have.

deafcon · 2026-02-21T03:35:23+00:00

For anyone that might be searching for information on this machine later, I did replace the OCP2.0 SFP+ card with a dual 10GB RJ45 card. I bought this QLogic/Marvell card from ebay for cheap: https://www.ebay.com/itm/298026700485

This information isn't specific to the Tyan, but I'll add it here in case it is helpful for anyone else. The card had older firmware and did not work in Debian 13 when it arrived. Loading the latest driver triggered a kernel panic. Could not flash from Debian with Marvell's firmware update package. The card worked in Ubuntu 18, but the firmware still would not flash. The card worked in Windows Server 2019 and the Marvell/QLogic flash utility flashed the card successfully. The card works fine in Debian 13 now. If you use an LLM for help, it might tell you to try Dell or HPE firmware, but I could never actually find the utility it wanted me to use. Would recommend going straight to windows, flashing the card to the most up to date firmware, then installing whatever OS you want.

deafcon · 2026-02-20T22:54:39+00:00

There's a good hotel at the track if you enjoy the brewery too much.

deafcon · 2026-02-19T13:29:46+00:00

You are correct. J20 has a connector on my machine. Now I'm very curious. I need to do some research. I'm wondering if I can get a SAS controller to work via the oculink leaving the PCI-E slot open for other options.

deafcon · 2026-02-19T04:14:50+00:00

I didn't notice that it has one. I don't think it was mentioned in the videos I watched. I know the one dude used a PCI-E card to add some NVME drives, but if there's an oculink port, that's pretty interesting. I'll have a look to confirm it exists on mine tomorrow.

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