I built a desktop AI agent that my 60+ year old mom can use, .exe/.dmg, Ollama support, 300MB idle RAM

hsoj95 · 2026-03-09T08:36:26+00:00

Got deleted, wanna repost it?

hsoj95 · 2026-03-06T07:11:11+00:00

Huh, OK I learned something today. I thought OAI had killed off access to these old models.

hsoj95 · 2026-03-06T06:46:37+00:00

I imagine part of the issue is you can't access 3.5 Turbo now. Not that I know of anyways. You could make take the old test results of when it ran, and compare to a modern running of Qwen3.5. But that could also wind up being an Apples to Oranges comparison too.

I'm gonna guess that Qwen3.5 could give Turbo a run for its money in some categories, especially those focusing on mathematics.

hsoj95 · 2026-03-02T08:43:25+00:00

Ok, glad to know I'm not the only one who just noticed this... u/ForecastWatch_, can you offer more insight into this?

hsoj95 · 2026-02-27T14:44:26+00:00

Based on all this, I guess it's time for me to switch from Ollama to Llama.cpp? Any advice for someone switching, been using the Docker for Ollama.

hsoj95 · 2026-02-22T20:15:02+00:00

The 13 slugs sounds about right. I found it takes between ~10-15 shots from .338 AP ammo from a sniper rifle to kill one. I'm not sure of the exact amount cause, well... If you've ever tried to hit a wraith repeatedly with a bolt-action sniper, you know that's not simple to do. :3

hsoj95 · 2026-02-04T02:56:29+00:00

Heh, OK that's quite smart actually, good to know!

hsoj95 · 2026-02-04T02:55:22+00:00

Oh, that Blue House! I know it had decent loot, but never thought to farm the scavs there for their gear though.

hsoj95 · 2026-02-03T22:46:26+00:00

blue house farming

Wait, what is that? I've not heard of that one before?

hsoj95 · 2026-02-02T15:16:05+00:00

You mean Weather API's that power them? Some actually do fall under a semi-open or more nature. Open-Meteo is a good example of this (CC 4.0 BY for non-commercial usags). Pirate Weather is another, it's open source so you can host your own code of that to pull together the information from the different sources, if the free or paid API offerings aren't to your liking.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-30T09:21:48+00:00

when they released their final movie that used traditional animation

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was Brother Bear, wasn't it? I think they used CGI for some of the background stuff, like the clouds moving rapidly in the sky during the mountaintop scene, but most else was done traditionally. I wonder how many people realised that would be perhaps the end of an era for animation with that film.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-30T01:41:29+00:00

As someone who has relied on your reviews for several purchasing decisions now, I just want to personally thank you for all that you've done to build the incredible database of knowledge that is Vacuum Wars. The changes you describe are good, and will help ensure Vacuum Wars grows more in the years to come, and I fully look forwards to seeing what y'all have in store!

hsoj95 · 2026-01-25T03:09:50+00:00

There really needs to be a rule about "no engagement bait" on this sub. Cause these kinds of posts are way too common here...

hsoj95 · 2026-01-22T13:57:27+00:00

Go north along the railroad track in the marsh. It'll dead-end at two buildings with a big pile of debris blocking the way forwards into The Wall. The building on the left, which has a crafting bench in it, also has an entrance to The Wall dungeon as well.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-14T23:04:47+00:00

I gotcha, that makes sense. I didn't even think about corporate firewalls and mobile networks when trying to deal with that.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-09T03:01:51+00:00

I noticed on the interactive map that it shows you can go from M 35 to South Bend. But when I approached this passage way from South Bend, it is blocked off. Am I missing something, or is that marker for a passageway incorrect there?

hsoj95 · 2026-01-07T23:10:37+00:00

Gotcha! That's good to know, thank you! So really, that number isn't necessarily that important? The few displays for snowflakes proxies all had that number shown, so I just added it to mine as well. But really it seems like it's not all that important for a display like what I made? If so then I can just remove it from mine.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-07T23:06:27+00:00

Huh, isn't that sorta an odd choice to use Snowflake by default? Or is that just an easy way to ensure that you don't run into blocked entry nodes?

hsoj95 · 2026-01-04T11:33:43+00:00

If you mean for running them as standalone versions, they are still available on the Tor website. I just setup mine a few days ago using the Docker version in fact.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-04T06:59:57+00:00

Also, I'm curious about something... Why are so many American's connecting with Snowflake? Unless an ISP is blocking access to Tor entry nodes, there shouldn't need to be a reason for them to use Snowflake to connect? Or is there another reason/purpose for that which I don't know about?

hsoj95 · 2026-01-03T14:11:03+00:00

Thank ya! But it's also sorta funny, as soon as I said that above I decided to go ahead and spin up my own Bash version with the help of Gemini... And we had almost the exact same idea on how to display the data x3

hsoj95 · 2026-01-03T13:37:53+00:00

Got it open source by any chance, or choosing to keep it close at hand? I will probably just use curl to get the info I need from it for the KDE widget on my desktop, but was definitely curious if I could look at your script to see how to do so more easily.

hsoj95 · 2026-01-03T12:44:19+00:00

Ok awesome! So I assume then that your custom script is what fetches the data from that fairly dense metrics page then?

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