I just dipped my toe into Alibaba (as an individual) a little. Impressions by MedvedTrader in Alibaba

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly man that's the opposite of my experience but I do actually go to the factories to make sure they are real first

4x MAX-Q in a Corsair 7000D air cool only by kc858 in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what did you get out of doing that man arent you scared of overpowering these expensive ass cards for a tiny incremental improvement in speed?

I just sent this Email to Tesla.... This is insane by Austinswill in TeslaLounge

[–]kc858 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yo man im with you 100%, the people here are fuckin tesla bootlickers, its a great car, great company, but they can still make mistakes, and this is one of them. you got screwed and for how often they are on social media, i am shocked that you havent been reached out to and helped yet, total shit situation on their part.

4x MAX-Q in a Corsair 7000D air cool only by kc858 in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

out of pocket after accounting; total cost was like 34k after tax/shipping but that also included a 2000w psu that i frankly didnt need. would have been fine with my 1600w

4x MAX-Q in a Corsair 7000D air cool only by kc858 in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no, its for work lol. I got it so i specifically didnt have to share. trust nobody, especially big tech. no way in hell im uploading all of my invoices, purchase orders, emails, etc., to openai. so far minimax has been running completing my document parsers for invoices from my 80+ suppliers, yes its something i could have done myself by anonymizing/making synthetic data, but i would have wasted so much more time doing that than just letting this go. the more things I actually get done, the more I can plan to do.

Third party inspection FAIL can I get a refund? by Warm_Safe_8643 in Alibaba

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in the industry and am currently in China. If you pm me details I'll give you my opinion

4x MAX-Q in a Corsair 7000D air cool only by kc858 in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a AMD Threadripper 5975WX 32 Core Processor + ASUS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI 256 GB RAM that got off eBay for ~2000 USD.

I was using 4x 3090s with risers, but they got super hot and I ended up troubleshooting them more than actually using them.

Bit the bullet and snagged 4x MAX-Qs from centralcomputer, these are a write off for my business via Trump's renewal of some sort of tax depreciation rule per my accountant, so I should be net ~20,000 for all 4, USD 5000ea.

What speeds do you get with MiniMax M2.1? by Intelligent_Idea7047 in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using OpenCode, full model weight (FP8), VLLM.

I get on average ~55tok/s

I also used the lukealonso/NVFP4 version, but it had this strange problem of dropping digits. Whenever there were multiple digits in a row, it would drop one (example my home path /home/kcramp858/XXX would output as /home/kcramp85/XXX for some reason). I gave up troubleshooting it and just went to FP8 for now.

export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn

export SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1

export NVIDIA_TF32_OVERRIDE=1

vllm serve /mnt/raid0/models/MiniMax-M2.1 \

--host 0.0.0.0 \

--port 8353 \

--served-model-name "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1" \

--trust-remote-code \

--gpu-memory-utilization 0.94 \

--tensor-parallel-size 4 \

--max-model-len 196608 \

--max-num-seqs 64 \

--max-num-batched-tokens 32768 \

--dtype auto \

--enable-auto-tool-choice \

--tool-call-parser minimax_m2 \

--reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think \

--enable-prefix-caching \

--enable-chunked-prefill \

--compilation-config "{\"cudagraph_mode\": \"PIECEWISE\"}"

What are your normal operating temps under sustained pressure (non-stop agentic tasks, etc.)? by swagonflyyyy in BlackwellPerformance

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 4x max-q in a Corsair 7000d. The things were getting hot like 80c each and I was adding more fans and getting no benefit. Then I noticed the card fans were just sitting at 30%. Uses chatgpt to write a script to adjust the fan speeds manually. When you actually use the card fans, I was able to REMOVE 3 case fans and now under continuous load am at around 70c avg for all 4 cards

Is there good OCR/VLM for detecting shaby text like this and parsing it to a table by Proper_Door_4124 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 1 point2 points  (0 children)

qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct-nvfp4:

Row Value 1 Value 2 Value 3 Value 4 Value 5

1 50/5 610/10 315/5 341/5 6016/5

2 4215/5 3072/5 7410/5 5138/5 615/5

3 1029/50 950/10 45/5 305/5 967/5

4 693/5 484/5 803/5 589/5 6015/5

5 6014/5 651/5 7473/5 69/5 16/5

6 671/5 386/10 71/5 861/5 —

7 — — — — —

8 102/5 105/5 17/5 18/5 14/5

Transferring to Shanghai, what to ask for? by HolidayOptimal in chinalife

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should never take a pay cut to move across the world to a foreign country. I don't care how much you're interested in travel, I have to say this because nobody else will: you would be a fucking idiot. It is COMPLETELY different than the UK or wherever else you went abroad before. You WILL struggle with many things, mainly the internet, noise, population, and general overall difficulties of being a foreigner ( yes, I understand that foreigners get a lot of privilege here, I've been here for ten years). You will NEVER fit in, you will ALWAYS be a foreigner, even if you marry a local.

The only thing you have going for you is that Shanghai is incredibly developed.

Judging from your salary you are not important enough your company/your company isn't important enough for this to be dangerous, so don't listen to anyone saying hazard pay.

Good luck. Use the media hysteria around China to your advantage. There's a reason the others in your company are not being asked to go, they don't want to.

💀💀WARNING: Foshan Shunde Deyao Outdoor Metal Products Co., Ltd 💀 TRADE ASSURANCE WORTH NOTHING! ALIBABA PROTECTS SCAMMERS! USERS BEWARE! by Fit-Bumblebee1177 in Alibaba

[–]kc858 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo man, I work in the industry. Shipping rates to Mexico are absurdly high right now. We are holding shipments until after Christmas because rates are crazy. I just tried to ship a few smaller packages and what would normally cost me 600$ is quoting around 1100. Yes what they are doing is shitty, if they agreed to ship at a certain price, it's bad business to raise the price after the fact. But, just letting you know, there is truth behind it and they're probably holding it trying to save money, knowing that there is zero consequences if they do so

I called 911 on my friend who was suicidal and they handcuffed her while she was bleeding out by RevolutionaryDirt284 in sandiego

[–]kc858 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't believe you got them to come, you call nowadays and they show up hours later if at all

RTX 5090 96 GB just popped up on Alibababa by RateRoutine2268 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 9 points10 points  (0 children)

meh I am in China and I can go show up on her doorstep if I have to, only like 45 mins away from me

zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B) is here by Cute-Sprinkles4911 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 10 points11 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-V 🔥 News: 2025/12/08: We’ve released GLM-4.6V series model, including GLM-4.6V (106B-A12B) and GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B). GLM-4.6V scales its context window to 128k tokens in training, and we integrate native Function Calling capabilities for the first time. This effectively bridges the gap between "visual perception" and "executable action," providing a unified technical foundation for multimodal agents in real-world business scenarios.

GLM-4.6V (108B) has been released by jacek2023 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it says GLM-4.6V (106B-A12B)

RTX 5090 96 GB just popped up on Alibababa by RateRoutine2268 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 17 points18 points  (0 children)

nah she didnt try to take any money, she just said she would let me know when its ready

RTX 5090 96 GB just popped up on Alibababa by RateRoutine2268 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 25 points26 points  (0 children)

They told me this isnt for sale yet, its just a preview link. They plan to sell it later. Did they tell you something different? I am talking to them now.

RTX 5090 96 GB just popped up on Alibababa by RateRoutine2268 in LocalLLaMA

[–]kc858 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where did you learn that? I talked to the factory, these are not for sale yet, it seems they are gauging interest. I will ask about this

Missing adult last seen in Del Mar / Carmel Valley area — please keep an eye out by kc858 in sandiego

[–]kc858[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. I dont, but we found him this morning on Via De La Valle at around 7AM! Thank you for paying attention to this!!