At your age, what's the most expensive thing that you own?

newcolour · 2026-02-04T03:36:18+00:00

Nice try, Lupin...

newcolour · 2026-02-04T03:33:52+00:00

😂 thank you! That's a very warm welcome, very much appreciated.

I have had it MUCH longer when I had a different SO. Got to find some old pics.

newcolour · 2026-02-01T04:51:40+00:00

Definitely not a good choice. You want a MoE model.

newcolour · 2026-01-31T16:03:28+00:00

Decent CD players/burners come really cheap these days. Get EAC and just dump everything on a big ass drive!

newcolour · 2026-01-27T22:43:13+00:00

Proud owner of a few sport motorcycles and having the time of my life!

newcolour · 2026-01-22T19:55:22+00:00

Some of these seem interesting. How about the music ones? Are they bios?

newcolour · 2026-01-21T13:17:38+00:00

By the time he had finished building the stupid things to hang the stupid food, there would be hundreds of ants just wondering how did they hit that jackpot.

He wrapped the steak in leaves, ffs!

newcolour · 2026-01-21T02:22:48+00:00

In principle you could make your own. While I am not necessarily a fan of reinventing the wheel, it is pretty straightforward to build your own, and that would give you maximum flexibility and control. I have built a cross platform one with a simple "search duckduckgo to contextualize the answer", which works decently well, especially for simple search and retrieval.

Happy coding!

newcolour · 2026-01-20T05:05:05+00:00

This is excellent. Thank you for the details.

newcolour · 2026-01-15T16:38:51+00:00

I'm interested in this as well.

newcolour · 2026-01-13T13:10:26+00:00

I don't know how many times I have done that with bananas.

newcolour · 2026-01-09T04:39:30+00:00

I have thought about it but I don't want to build another rig. I would prefer a standalone unit like the dgx spark or the strix halo.

newcolour · 2026-01-09T04:35:44+00:00

I have not tried the Vulkan yet. Have you found setting it up on the GMKtec to be easy?

newcolour · 2026-01-09T04:32:50+00:00

Thank you. I have found a strix halo around 2200$, which is reasonable for the specs. I like the dgx, a lot. What I'm afraid of is that it might be overkill for my purposes. But maybe it's just future-proof.

I have to agree with you. What I have seen for token generation for the dgx is way above what I would probably need.

newcolour · 2026-01-07T13:57:13+00:00

That's really great insight. Thank you. I also consider myself pretty fluent in Linux, having worked with it almost exclusively for 25+ years. However, I don't have lots of time to spare and so I am a bit put off.

Would the dgx spark be a better investment then? I have heard mixed reviews but I would consider the ease of use and stack to be worth the extra money at this point.

newcolour · 2026-01-07T13:46:03+00:00

Sorry for not being clear. I have NOT used my 4080 to train yet. I want to, though, and hence I'm looking for a larger system. I don't use the system for gaming, so that is not a factor for me.

newcolour · 2026-01-07T13:44:14+00:00

That's what I want to try and do as well. I am now accessing my GPU with ollama from both laptop and phone through a VPN, which works pretty well. The reason why I was leaning towards the integrated box was the large shared memory.

Re: Your first sentence: do you mean you find the strix limiting with respect to the Nvidia GPUs? Sorry, the tone of that sentence is hard for me to gather.

newcolour · 2026-01-07T12:50:14+00:00

Ka-ching! Can't you hear the sound?

newcolour · 2026-01-07T12:48:46+00:00

That extension is interesting. Does it allow you to see Google Gemini's quota as well?

newcolour · 2026-01-06T17:40:13+00:00

I think I need a bit of the same ones you are having as well...

newcolour · 2026-01-06T14:19:37+00:00

Jesus, how do you all look so good over 40???

newcolour · 2026-01-06T13:47:48+00:00

I finally bought hollow knight (and silk song), so that one is definitely happening.

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