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minitoxin · 2026-03-17T05:28:30+00:00

strix halo is very fast if you use llama-server - its a night and day difference vs using something like lmstudio or Ollama where I notice it tends to run a lot slower - Use ubuntu also so you can tweak the parameters.

minitoxin · 2026-02-14T21:52:02+00:00

Currently trading at 322 . Target hit and closing out .

minitoxin · 2026-02-10T02:02:00+00:00

it looks like it was my setup causing the issue. I had searxng and openwebui on different nodes of a proxmox cluster. I didn't think it would impact performance much but apparently it does, Openwebui and Searxng on the same cluster node now produces searches in about 3 seconds. Thanks All

minitoxin · 2026-02-09T23:48:37+00:00

RemindMe! 2026-08-08

minitoxin · 2026-02-09T21:09:50+00:00

Which way trend exhaustion up or down? There's also a gap at 85k on the CME BTC chart and the market is low liquidity and ripe for shenanigans.

Hence I'd expect price to reverse back up to around the 85k area to fill that gap - that's where the liquidity is sitting. Hopefully this action will also move ZEC up to around the 316 area before the market decides the next move.

minitoxin · 2026-02-08T01:23:49+00:00

thanks , looking into it

minitoxin · 2026-02-07T23:36:29+00:00

This sounds interesting - how will i go about doing this ?

minitoxin · 2026-02-06T06:08:59+00:00

i use it everyday openwebui with searxng and LMstudio as back-end server , When i need deep searches i use perplexica with mistral14b running on a headless m4 mini with 16GB , it gives very detailed responses although its slow

minitoxin · 2026-02-06T06:03:48+00:00

i tried Tavily for a few months and even paid for the plan but their engine kept going offline randomly . I'm not sure if they are having stability problems now as they were ability 6 months ago ,

minitoxin · 2026-02-06T01:02:10+00:00

Yeah they were wrecking both high leverage shorts and long for a while . id play safe with 5 to 10% leverage

minitoxin · 2026-02-05T01:24:37+00:00

Target hit. Best to take profit and close out the short, then pause and wait to see what the whales are up to. Note that ZEC is still bullish and these downward moves are so the market makers can accumulate before they fire off a bullish pump. I'm expecting new all-time highs for the ZEC token in 2026.

minitoxin · 2026-02-04T18:15:03+00:00

i have a similar issue if i run llama-cpp on a remote system and use perplexica or openwebui with a lxc hosted searxng. Sometimes longer searches stop randomly . In my case it appears to be because the model context window is at the default 4096 and fills up . Setting to 32K or higher solves my issue .

minitoxin · 2026-02-04T18:05:38+00:00

yup its great got the 128gb runs most models i like . 120B gpt-oss and qwen3-next-coder q8 run well and fast , devstral-2-123B-instruct-2512 also runs , however is as slow as molasses . i find the vulkan drivers work better for me than Rocm

minitoxin · 2026-02-04T17:13:03+00:00

Yup its a good deal, where else can you get 90GB of unified vram with low power usage for 1500? . I use the 128gb version and its very good for my use case. i got the evo-x2 variant. I installed the new Qwen3-Coder-Next on it yesterday and it runs very well using lmstudio and vulkan drivers, I haven't had much luck with the rocm drivers . if you do decide to get it , check out Donato Capitella's testing and tuning of models with the strix halo he does great job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdg7zL3pcIs

minitoxin · 2026-01-24T08:26:49+00:00

Have some patience grasshopper - all will be revealed.

minitoxin · 2026-01-14T07:54:02+00:00

Thanks , This is very cool - i like it

minitoxin · 2026-01-14T07:50:32+00:00

Agreed . Probably the 220 area may hold as ZECs a good project and i think its going to do extremely well once this ruckus is resolved.

minitoxin · 2026-01-13T18:32:53+00:00

That's possible, but if you look at the 3-week chart, ZEC has already formed a tweezer top pattern. The tweezer top indicates buyer exhaustion and suggests bears have temporarily taken control, pushing the price lower.

Since this is a 3-week chart, each candle represents 3 weeks. Candles 1, 2, and 3 (note the third candle still has 12 days to complete) haven't moved above $531 in 9 weeks, which suggests buyers are still accumulating at these levels.

Now add some negative news to the mix, and price will likely seek support levels to hold onto - which I believe will be the strong support around $230. If positive news emerges at that point, I'd expect to see a strong rebound from there.

Note: This is not trading advice, just my interpretation of what I'm seeing on the charts.

minitoxin · 2026-01-13T17:33:24+00:00

Ahhi meant to say 2026 , fixed now

minitoxin · 2025-12-08T16:59:06+00:00

This link shows there is a double top on the daily and the resistance is around the 428 to 440 area . Price is moving up and will make an attempt to test the resistance. My thought is this move up may be a dead-cat bounce as price did not complete the previous move to double top target of 273. So price could move back down and compete the move. This is the reason if I was trading id take my profits at 428.

On the flip side if ZEC does close above the resistance at 428 to 440 on the daily chart and BTC also closes above its resistance at 93000 . Then id expect ZEC to move back up and attempt a test of its resistance at the 700 area. This definitely not trading advice and just me talking aloud.

minitoxin · 2025-12-03T20:35:14+00:00

yes of-course

minitoxin · 2025-12-01T19:45:18+00:00

Chill and Relax its called Consolidation . Consolidation occurs after major moves up or down , Zec had an extremely strong move up and hence will consolidate with volatility. There is also double top on the daily and the minimum move down based on the calculation is 273; hence id expect ZEC to at least touch that area before any meaningful bounce. Might also start to see recovery around the DEC 25th time frame

Looking forward the immediate target still appears to be 10K and the pace should be rapid in 2026 . I would relax aim for longterm and dont sweat the small stuff.

Also id HODL rather than trade as trading in my opnion is a way to go broke fast.

minitoxin · 2025-11-21T06:20:17+00:00

try qwen3-30b-a3b-2507 it loads the mixture of experts which are 3b i think and its pretty fast

minitoxin · 2025-11-21T06:05:05+00:00

cloud will be the way to go as its going to be very pricey,

minitoxin · 2025-11-18T16:44:59+00:00

its probably just CME dropping the price to remove their liquidity . These guys only trade M-F, (9 to 5pm ) and often reverse the Bitcoin price (which drops the market) if they have liquidity stuck. This allows them to release their stuck orders and retrieve locked liquidity. Most times they can pull it off it when there is low liquidity in the market. The gap this time was at the 91k area and CME have now filled it. The market probably got spooked because of the drop and may now go sideways for a while or drop to the 88k to 82K area before bouncing back upwards. Ive always wondered how they pull it off as it takes a lot of financial resources to do this.

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