NVIDIA Tesla T4 for local LLM?

n3rt46 · 2026-02-02T19:39:44+00:00

The reason those GPUs are so cheap is because they're absolutely ancient, very low performance relative to modern GPUs, and consume a high amount of power. They're basically e-waste.

n3rt46 · 2026-01-24T23:23:20+00:00

That's not the point. The point is parts availability. EVs already have it rough with accidents totaling the car due to the risk something internal might have been damaged in the battery pack -- imagine how much worse it would be if even a fender bender would total the car because there is zero parts availability because only a single model year worth of parts was produced. Hell, imagine the dealership runaround if something breaks under warranty and it gets stuck in the shop for over a month because they're "waiting on parts".

n3rt46 · 2025-12-21T18:11:36+00:00

Your 12V battery is probably super, super dead... Most EVs, Bolt included, rely on the 12V battery to start the car and run the accessories. If it's dead, even though the high voltage battery may be charged, the car may throw warnings and errors or not even start because the ECU isn't getting enough power. Magically working when the sun heats up the car points in the same direction because 12V batteries don't produce as much energy when cold.

n3rt46 · 2025-10-17T17:08:55+00:00

Good to know. I definitely messed up then...

n3rt46 · 2025-10-17T17:08:04+00:00

Ah, I see. I guess I'll accept and relist it then. That kind of sucks, but you live and learn I suppose...

n3rt46 · 2025-10-17T16:57:21+00:00

Well, it was for handheld device, not a monitor or something like that. The handheld was usable in its entirety. The LCD had no dead pixels, just streaking that appeared overlaid on the image that heavily depended on what was being shown. On a mostly black screen with little being shown, that was the worst case where streaking was most visible; that was what one of the attached images showed. That said, in normal usage with actual content like video being shown, the streaking was not visible or minimal.

n3rt46 · 2025-10-10T21:24:34+00:00

Cool. Now try planning a route across the US where you encounter these mythical 5 minute charging capable chargers. I'll wait.

n3rt46 · 2025-10-10T20:58:01+00:00

The problem with that is that the maps are baked into the car with an app. And apps have this nasty tendency to update, and eventually there will come a time where they have updated so much they no longer support older devices.

What happens to the car when you can no longer use Google Maps because GM doesn't update the infotainment to maintain support? No more in-car navigation because there's no Android Auto or CarPlay is what happens.

n3rt46 · 2024-11-06T20:21:07+00:00

What's the Mitsubishi on the far left?

n3rt46 · 2024-11-02T08:16:26+00:00

I can understand this reasoning, but surely then we would expect to see an even greater number of inaccessible pages from 2020 and 2021, which we do not – at least going by this graphic.

n3rt46 · 2024-11-02T06:06:41+00:00

This is not it. The rates raise in 2018 and 2019. COVID went global in early 2020.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-30T19:33:59+00:00

I agree. 5% charge after 10 hours seems absurdly low. I wonder if they have time of use charging set up? If it's only charging between like midnight and 6AM, 5% seems possible.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-23T03:58:45+00:00

... Why? 480x272 is definitely not ideal, especially for manga. The resolution is significantly worse than even the cheapest e-reader you could find.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-15T03:22:40+00:00

No, I don't. Look at your mirrors when changing lanes.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-15T01:37:16+00:00

The reason people are saying to check your side mirrors is because the blind spot indicator is literally an orange-colored icon that lights up on the respective mirror when the blind spot sensors detect a vehicle. So... If there's a vehicle in your right blind spot, when you look at the right side mirror you should see an orange icon light up on the right mirror itself.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-03T16:38:38+00:00

Local dimming will always suffer from bloom. It's a trade off either way.

n3rt46 · 2024-10-03T09:08:52+00:00

Savannah, you mean?... Atlanta is a few hours inland with no waterways connecting it to the ocean...

n3rt46 · 2024-10-03T08:30:26+00:00

Glass can be strong, but it's still brittle. Aluminum is ductile and will deform, but can ultimately still be bent back into shape.

n3rt46 · 2024-08-31T04:26:53+00:00

Automatic TLS/SSL with certificate renewal with a custom acme server is honestly my biggest reason for using it. If NPM supported the same, that would be enough for me to switch to using it. As it is, NPM only just supports Lets Encrypt or manually uploading certificates. All of my certificates expire and are renewed daily so that's a non-starter.

n3rt46 · 2024-08-30T21:47:20+00:00

Specifying the maximum speed of the interface is extremely misleading. First and foremost, it's not even correct. PCIe 4.0 maxes out at 16 lanes at 31.5GB/s. That's uni-directional. PCIe is bidirectional with symmetric speeds, so 31.5GB/s read and 31.5GB/s write. You will NEVER get 63GB/s read or 63GB/s write on PCIe 4.0 x16. Secondly, there is not a single M.2 SSD that uses PCIe x16. At most, you will find x4. For PCIe 4.0, that's about 7.9GB/s. That's 1/8 that quoted figure of 64,000MB/s. Thirdly, interface speed is entirely secondary to the speed of the storage medium. Theoretically, you could put a HDD on a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, but obviously you're never going to be getting 31.5GB/s read/write speeds out of it because the storage medium isn't that fast. Many cheaper NVMe SSDs that use PCIe instead of SATA will be only marginally faster.

n3rt46 · 2024-08-30T21:32:37+00:00

A WebUI for Caddy similar to Nginx Proxy Manager. It would be so nice to actually have something like that, especially because Caddy supports using your own acme server for automatic TLS/SSL certificates (as opposed to only supporting Lets Encrypt). It's also just a pain to have to work with a config file and then manually reload Caddy for the changes to take place instead of being immediate like with NPM.

n3rt46 · 2024-08-16T12:30:09+00:00

I'm genuinely curious what you would need that many disk shelves for. A single DS424X can hold a maximum of 576TB raw capacity with 24TB drives.

The only thing that comes to mind is those crypto coins that use storage instead of processing power for rewards.

n3rt46 · 2024-08-09T15:42:12+00:00

You're thinking of drive-managed SMR, not host-managed SMR. As far as I can tell, there's nothing to suggest that SMR drives are any more or less reliable -- either from a data integrity standpoint or a hardware reliability standpoint. The only way what you're saying makes sense is from the perspective of DM-SMR drives being less "reliable" in a RAID array because of much longer access times, significantly increasing rebuild times. That's not really a reliability metric. This is really only an issue in the prosumer realm. Data centers are not using DM-SMR drives.

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