OpticalMoose

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[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I'm like "what'd we ever do to you?"

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

... it should be possible to continue supporting those older cards by setting the compile time information to match your gpus.

I'll admit that's probably over my head, but still good advice. The 1080ti works fine for now, but whenever it gets dropped from support, I have a good home for it.

I have a Win7 machine so I can run my older games that don't play well in linux. Nvidia Rocket Sled Demo on a 1080ti screams.

 


So here's the way I see it; with Data Center profits being the way they are, I don't think Nvidia's going to do us any favors with GPU pricing next generation. And apparently, the new rule is Nvidia cards exist to bring AMD prices up.

So here's my plan. Starting with my current system;

OS: Linux Mint 21.2 x86_64  
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 4.673GHz  
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate  
GPU: AMD ATI 0b:00.0 Cezanne  
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti  
Memory: 4646MiB / 31374MiB

I think I'm better off just buying another 3060 or maybe 4060ti/16. To be nitpicky, I can get 3 3060s for the price of 2 4060tis and get more VRAM plus wider memory bus. The 4060ti is probably better in the long run, it's just so damn expensive for what you're actually getting. The 3060 really is the working man's compute card. It needs to be on an all-time-greats list.

My limitations are that I don't have room for full-length cards (a 1080ti, at 267mm, just barely fits), also I don't want the cursed power connector. Also, I don't really want to buy used because I've lost all faith in humanity and trust in my fellow man, but I realize that's more of a "me" problem.

Plus, I'm sure that used P40s and P100s are a great value as far as VRAM goes, but how long are they going to last? I've been using GPGPU since the early days of LuxRender OpenCL and Daz Studio Iray, so I know that sinking feeling when older CUDA versions get dropped from support and my GPU becomes a paperweight. Maxwell is already deprecated, so Pascal's days are definitely numbered.

On the CPU side, I'm upgrading to whatever they announce for Ryzen 9000 and a ton of RAM. Hopefully they have some models without NPUs, I don't think I'll need them. As far as what I'm running, it's Ollama and Oobabooga, mostly models 32Gb and lower. My goal is to run Mixtral 8x22b but I'll probably have to run it at a lower quant, maybe one of the 40 or 50Gb versions.

My budget: Less than Threadripper level.

Thanks for listening to my insane ramblings. Any thoughts?

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

"Sir, they've given us a list of their demands, but I can't read this ... this chicken-scratch."

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

"As God is my witness..."

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 4 months ago (5 children)

When I was in Korea, I leaned that chickens can (sort of) fly. They can flap their wings hard enough to get from the ground to a tree branch maybe 8 feet or so off the ground, and safely back down.

And I've heard chickens tasted better back in the old days. A bird that eats grubs, worms, grasshoppers, frogs, snakes, etc tastes different than one that just eats chickenfeed all day.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Renegade Cut had a pretty good video about her. https://piped.video/watch?v=HC4K1mx0SPQ. I was mostly wrong about her. I didn't realize they became friends later. That's a pretty big arc for only one season.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we don't live in the worst possible universe. Madonna and Will Smith in the Matrix, everybody using the Hulk Hogan Grill, Stallone as Axel Foley, OJ as the Terminator. I guess I'm ok with where we are now.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

One thing I love about usenet is that it's great if you're just looking for one episode, song, etc and don't want to download a whole collection.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It's a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Remember it? I still have mine. Got games dating back to Monster Truck Madness, all the Need for Speed games before they went batshit crazy, and about 2 years worth of PC Gamer demo discs.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, I had been hoping for the same thing.

Also, to @projectmoon@lemm.ee, you might want to wait and see what gets announced at Computex next month. Hopefully they announce some new stuff and the current gen prices drop.

 

I had to take my GPU out to do some troubleshooting, so I figured why not try some games on the old Ryzen 5700G. Ray-traced Quake wasn't exactly playable at 3 fps, but I'm impressed that it could load and display correctly.

Other games I tried; Portal RTX wouldn't start at all. Spider-Man remastered did start, but I can't get past the load menu, not related to the Ryzen APU. Most of my library is 10+ years old, so pretty much everything else runs fine on the APU.

 

A place for everything and everything in its place.

 

It's the first of 4 dams to be removed along the Klamath River by the end of 2024. The upper basin hasn't had Salmon in over 100 years and scientists are releasing some there as a test run.

 

Hartford is credited as creator of Dolphin-Mistral, Dolphin-Mixtral and lots of other stuff.

He's done a huge amount of work on uncensored models.

 

An update to this post https://beehaw.org/post/6717143

 

I need to host about 30 Gb of video, light traffic, but may need to upgrade in a year if things go well.

Self hosting isn't really an option. I don't want to deal with the security issues of keeping the hosted stuff separate from my home network.

I'd rather avoid AWS/Google, etc and give my money to a smaller company instead even if its a couple of bucks extra.

I'm also looking for a .family domain if anyone knows some good registrars.

It's been about 20 years since I've hosted a website, and the only thing I can remember is don't use GoDaddy.

 

This is an interesting demo, but it has some drawbacks I can already see:

  • It's Windows only (maybe Win11 only, the documentation isn't clear)
  • It only works with RTX 30 series and up
  • It's closed source, so you have no idea if they're uploading your data somewhere

The concept is great, having an LLM to sort through your local files and help you find stuff, but it seems really limited.

I think you could get the same functionality(and more) by writing an API for text-gen-webui.

more info here: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-unveils-chat-with-rtx-ai-chatbot-powered-locally-by-geforce-rtx-30-40-gpus

 

Edit: Best viewed with an ad blocker. Sorry, I didn't notice till someone pointed it out to me.

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