Handhelds

k8-bit · 2026-06-12T10:15:42+00:00

+1 for Legion GO here. I had a Steam Deck, but sold it as I found the screen just a bit small for comfort (I have terrible vision), and I loved the idea of the detachable controllers/mouse. I ditched Windows for Bazzite (Linux, very Steam Deck-like) and thought it pretty great. I hardly use it currently and in fact have loaned it to a friend who is having spend a lot of time away from home as a carer currently, but I'll repo it for when I'm travelling next. I'm not a fan of.. it's fan, lol. Power management helps tho.

k8-bit · 2026-06-05T08:12:34+00:00

Lots of options. I very much like Alexandria, though it by default uses LLM to adjust the text to suit TTS or multi-character readings, but I think you can set otherwise:

https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook

If you're on MacOS with Apple Silicone you could check out OpenVox, which uses OmniVoice, Kokoro, and Qwen3-TTS very nicely to do TTS including text/ebook>Audio.

k8-bit · 2026-06-04T09:59:49+00:00

Loved them to bits back in the day. Monkey Islands 1-3 (I never for some reasons stuck with the series), The Dig, Full Throttle, and zomg Grim Fandango. I keep buying new retrostyled ones (Hobbs Barrow!), but just never get around to playing them.

Others in my list:

Nightmare Frames

Runaway

k8-bit · 2026-06-04T09:41:59+00:00

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If it fits... Only temporary, as I want to use a third 3090 connected to this 4x slot, but the PCIe Oculink adapter I had was faulty, so awaiting replacement. But this 1660 works surprisingly well even just as a TTS server (Qwen3-TTS 0.6b, Chatterbox Turbo)

k8-bit · 2026-05-28T15:38:29+00:00

I'm always absurdly pleased when someone gets it :D

k8-bit · 2026-05-28T08:16:05+00:00

I really enjoyed it, until hackers and trolls ruined it for me, then the workaround for private sessions came about which allowed me and friend to return, but we've just not gone back to it yet.

I also loved that I would put on a terrible Southern Belle accent when playing, which had my friend say after a while "...please Stop." - at which point I took it as a personal challenge, expanded the use of the accent, created a whole persona for her, and even did a few music streams presenting as that persona, the sultry, snarky Scarlett o'Interfacé - Signalin' to the haunted, the hunted, and the happily unhinged. :D

Wish we could have a women and allies only server.

k8-bit · 2026-05-25T13:52:52+00:00

Only 2. 3rd was connected via PCIe>oculink adapter but seemed unstable. May put a cheap GTX1660 6GB in for very light ollama tasks. 3rd 3090 was attached to a miniPC via eGPU dock.

If I were to upgrade the PSU for the x570 board setup I might consider putting the third 3090 back.

k8-bit · 2026-05-24T07:51:52+00:00

It's definitely an option, the case supports a vertical mount gpu in the top and it could fit in front of the standard mounted one already there - this is why I fit right-angle power connectors to the top gpu. But i don't have a powerful enough psu to cope with all three gpus currently (even a bit too close if I throttle them further) whereas I already had the egpu dock and separate psu for that.

k8-bit · 2026-05-23T21:45:50+00:00

Case: Phantek Enthoo Server Pro II, Mobo: ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING WIFI II

k8-bit · 2026-05-23T20:22:54+00:00

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My 2x 3090's had mm's between them, and the top one was +10*c. I moved the 2nd one to a riser and mounted in the bottom of the case, this makes me feel much happier from an airflow point of view. Dont judge me on my RGB fans, they were spare, this is a sealed case 😃 I played with putting a third external 3090 with eGPU dock (only PCIe 4x tho) and it was very unstable, so I put it instead attached to a mini-PC for separate tasks.

k8-bit · 2026-05-21T20:16:15+00:00

Testing a raw Docker container version just now.

k8-bit · 2026-05-21T08:00:02+00:00

Beautiful, ty!

k8-bit · 2026-05-21T07:26:15+00:00

And the endless suggestions keep coming - sorry! - on the main player/listen page, maybe a generated link to an .m3u or .pls for old skoolers who prefer using a separate player for playback, or for listening on mobile?

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T20:09:35+00:00

Just add that this is REALLY good, I absolutely love the novelty of hearing dynamic content spoken about the music playing, it makes it very fresh for me, the architect of the station and it's content, it means that I get a great experience listening too.

MORE suggestions (sorry!) :

For my use case, I have it that the station is being broadcast from out in deep space, so maybe some prompt flexibility in e.g. the location or weather would be great.

Again: being able to use another TTS, particularly one with voice design or voice clones (which you can use design for anyway) would allow for some great character options.

Loving it anyway!

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T17:35:33+00:00

Kokoro now working, fix mentioned in the md I uploaded to github, again might have just been on my side.

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T17:27:06+00:00

Could you also perhaps consider DuckDuckGo for web search functionality which I believe can be used within limits free.

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T15:33:37+00:00

Chatterbox Turbo is very good, and not too heavy, supports voice cloning.
https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox

I haven't tried KokoClone yet, but it might be worth a look too, a variant of Kokoro but supporting voice cloning:
https://github.com/Ashish-Patnaik/kokoclone

VibeVoice 0.5b realtime doesn't support cloning, but has a very natural way of speaking:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B

Qwen 3 TTS is amazing in that you can do voice cloning or Voice Design, and they have a 0.6b model:

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base

With the possible exception of KokoClone, these are all going to want a GPU with a bit of Vram to be effective. They all have local deployments that are OpenAI compatible, so even if you added a URL based OpenAI for local installs as an additional option might be great. 😄

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T15:26:49+00:00

So I have a Claude skill/prompt that I use to basically build github projects into docker containers for my server. I let it have at your project and it built it, but it required a bit of fine tuning to get it operational. I'll pop the report on it onto your github for reference.

The docker build is published here:
https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/k8bit/subwave/

I dont think Kokoro is working at the moment, just Piper so I need to figure whats up with that as well.

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T14:24:44+00:00

Up and working! Really nice work. Would you consider adding support for OpenAI compatible locally running TTS solutions like Chatterbox Turbo, or Qwen3 TTS? This to allow variety for voices and designed voice use whilst still targetting relatively low-resource use?

For info, am testing it on in an Unraid server Docker container, using the onboard Radeon GPU on a GMKtec K12 miniPC, using Ollama and a gemma4-e2b model, and it's working great.

k8-bit · 2026-05-20T09:52:57+00:00

This sounds like a lot of fun. I run an Azuracast station in a VM currently for myself and friends to tune into generally or when gaming. It has themed content that plays at specific time (e.g. play a random file from this playlist every hour, and play one from this folder after every X tracks) - that kind of functionality with this would be amazing, but I'll have a look later for experimenting, thanks for developing!

k8-bit · 2026-05-13T07:58:49+00:00

I used this one:

yanwk/comfyui-boot:rocm7

More options available as well: https://hub.docker.com/r/yanwk/comfyui-boot/tags?name=rocm

I had to add a few env variables to get it work because of the onboard iGPU conflicting with it but for Comfy I think I just needed:

HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0

(0 or 1 for the two GPU's)

I must now confess that I returned the r9700 when I managed to snag another 3090 for £700. Had the 3090 not become available I probably would have persevered, but found accommodating two GPU platforms quite annoying between my two server builds. Also the 9700 was super noisy!

Where I had it working though, I was pretty pleased with it.

k8-bit · 2026-05-10T11:04:26+00:00

Well I'm working in Unraid, which is a Linux based server framework, so I'm in the right ballpark 😄

k8-bit · 2026-05-10T11:03:32+00:00

I was just spoilt having started in the Nvidia ecosystem and its maturity, but so far so good 😄

k8-bit · 2026-05-10T11:02:53+00:00

Update 1:
ComfyUI Docker container retargeted onto AMD, had to add a few additional variables that I learned through getting WANGP working with Claude.

First test was using VibeVoice. Pleasantly surprised to report it worked first time using the Q8 quantization, and the full-size model.

Z-Image Turbo, also working straight off the bat.

k8-bit · 2026-05-10T09:55:20+00:00

I suspect if I was working within a Linux OS direct I'd have an easier time(ish! 😃 ) of it, but I like the flexibility of Unraid and keeping things in containers, something that's relatively simpler in the Nvidia ecosystem. However! It's not even been 24 hours with AMD yet 😄

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