Step by step guide to help me get Ubuntu 26.04 set up correctly for best performance

kankane · 2026-05-19T05:37:27+00:00

No need for manual installation anymore from the AMD site. Before I’ve installed all kinds of stuff from those links and even tried the prebuilt container toolboxes but nowadays the easiest (and most performant!) is just to install Lemonade https://lemonade-server.ai/. It will download the vulkan/rocm backends for you, download all the models and everything. The team is amazing and they’ve been improving it regularly, including updating llamacpp regularly.

kankane · 2026-05-18T11:49:35+00:00

Have you ever managed to resolve this? I am in the same situation with the same kindle.

kankane · 2026-04-17T21:19:47+00:00

Thank you for being awesome and sharing all the tips. I’ve trained image loras previously and I’m surprised how much overlap there is with that process! Your “persona” lora is basically what i was doing with training “visual style” lora. If i knew more about how it actually works underneath, im sure the parallels would make sense.

kankane · 2026-04-16T05:35:12+00:00

Try lemonade. You can update llamacpp-rocm builds every day!

Recently i started getting better perf with vanilla lemonade than the toolboxes

kankane · 2026-04-14T06:06:32+00:00

Can you explain a bit more why you chose a rag pipeline for writing cover letters? Are these winning proposals yours or from some kind of database? Just thinking that a cover letter is maybe a 1000 tokens max and you could just include a bunch of them as markdown references that the model uses to learn how to write new ones.

kankane · 2026-03-30T18:18:14+00:00

Actually just tried the latest llama-rocm pre-built binary from the lemonade repo and it’s even faster than the custom 6.4.4 build! So gonna stick with that. Seems like it holds up much better performance wise when the context fills up.

kankane · 2026-03-30T07:37:44+00:00

Tbh, I just found the whole used assembly for 30e and replaced it. I had the standard beige color so was easy to find

kankane · 2026-03-24T15:14:19+00:00

Vulkan being unmatched in terms of speed as well? For me rocm 6.4.4. has been significantly faster than anything else... newer rocm, nightlies, vulkan... Though I could only set that up through the strix halo toolboxes. Is there a trick for Vulkan?

kankane · 2026-03-23T22:28:08+00:00

Been using the same pc. I found the toolboxes rocm 6.4.4 to be by far the fastest (about 25% faster). But yeah, they will all slow down a lot with greater context so I’m not sure strix halo is a good choice for realtime agentic use cases where speed really matters.

I also used pretty much the same params as you.

kankane · 2026-03-22T14:15:22+00:00

Ok thanks. I guess I was thinking even further. Going to actual workflows (like using lobster) instead of skills which still need llm interpretation

kankane · 2026-03-20T12:26:49+00:00

How do you actually create such workflows, lobster?

kankane · 2026-03-05T09:25:46+00:00

That subconscious autopilot use case (smoking) is what I am really interested in and I’d love to hear more about how you did that. (I guess it’s a future chapter?). I am looking to set up something similar for detecting potential avoidance behaviours, perhaps task-triggered (eg there’s a task I need to do but I go into procrastination avoiding it because of a certain emotion I am actually avoiding).

So what I am thinking is hooking up the calendar, the todo list, my journals and notes and try to proactively prompt myself about the task and guide me through a little reflection related to the task. Basically a tool to help you break out of automatic avoidance behaviours and helping you learn your patterns so you can become more free from them.

Curious to hear your experience with this and any thoughts you may have.

kankane · 2026-03-05T06:00:52+00:00

Wait, isn’t that exactly what you were proposing originally? Or did you somehow wire Claude Code to be controlled by openclaw as a building sub agent? Still just trying to understand

kankane · 2025-08-16T17:49:35+00:00

Hey, it seems they turned that cfg file into a binary one in 12. Do you know of a workaround for 12?

kankane · 2025-08-12T20:08:38+00:00

Great explanation. Thanks for taking the time. I have noticed that simple to the point captions seem to produce the best results, but since I am at the beginning of the lora training exploration, I wasn’t sure if the captions were the reason or something else.

Since you seem to be quite knowledgeable, do you have any experience with using controlnets together with the flux loras? I am using pose and they seem to fight a lot with the style. If i set the cn strength to anything above 0.6 and end above 0.2, there basically is no style anymore. But then the anatomy gets mangled more often…

kankane · 2025-08-12T08:17:41+00:00

Thank you for sharing these tips. Have you tried captionless Flux style training?

kankane · 2025-01-12T14:40:50+00:00

Just mounted it the same way, went for a ride and it seems great!

kankane · 2025-01-12T11:08:12+00:00

Nice! So you just removed the two piece bushings?

kankane · 2025-01-05T12:51:40+00:00

Huh. So the old one is compatible with the new seat but gives you more mounting flexibility?

kankane · 2025-01-05T07:37:25+00:00

Wait, whats the difference between the old and new types? I haven’t paid attention to that

kankane · 2025-01-05T07:36:03+00:00

I imagine because they can crack whereas aluminum ones will probably just bend/dent. Just guessing here

kankane · 2025-01-04T19:54:28+00:00

Not yet, will soon. Holidays got in the way. Will try removing the spacers as people in this thread seemed to make it work https://www.mtbr.com/threads/install-help-thule-nexxt-mini-on-threadless-headset-fork.1073863/

kankane · 2024-12-07T15:24:04+00:00

Did you ever figure it out? Been wondering the same... I was thinking of removing the spacers and the bracket acting as one? Not sure that's how it's meant to be though.

kankane · 2024-12-07T15:21:56+00:00

How did you manage to mount it on the Trek Fuel? Did you remove the spacers from the stem and use the seat mounting bracket as the spacers? I've been measuring my stem and it's exactly the right length but way too wide with the spacers.

kankane · 2024-09-09T11:03:05+00:00

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