You’re right, damn I feel silly

Thanks! I’m okay. Like you say, I have friends who are my family :) we support each other. It’s good to know that relatives aren’t the only potential source of such care, despite what they might teach aha

Bahahaah, I think some folk are sad about this article
Edit: Commenter was correct, darn. Replaced image where the needle was off the left side. It changes after voting.

Ground News (source rating)

Hell, I disowned my dad for making a racist act, pretty much, pointing to a black child at a golf course and making subtle monkey actions. Later that day I said fuck it, came out to him as trans. The following weeks that he contacted my partner and I proved my decision to banish him was correct, and so I did. A zero tolerance policy for intolerant people is a must imo

Parents have no hold over you, not really. If they don’t deserve your presence, don’t allow it. I hope, however, that your cousins would accept your choice and stay in contact with you, because sibling love is so much more valuable.

Families shouldn’t be torn over political garbage anyway, priorities are all out of wack

I did, but completely forgot! I haven’t used a local library in years >.<

Or a goddamn mech suit from Fallout

That’s pretty much what I just recommended aha, 12th gen or higher, or a GPU. Doesn’t have to be a large one either - my GTX 970 could handle Emby transcoding as well as blaze through speech recognition for a local voice assistant

IIRC the free version of Emby doesn’t throttle in any way, you can still have up to 10 concurrent active devices and the only thing you miss out on really is OpenSubtitles. But I’ve recently upped my game with Sonarr and it’s a dream. One day I’ll put my movies into Radarr.

You need any kind of mobo/CPU combo, I’ve heard 12th Gen Intel onwards are as capable of transcoding on the fly as an older GPU so you wouldn’t need both, but if you go older I recommend a GPU as well, just because it gives more flexibility with being able to use hardcoded subtitles without locking up the CPU, and streaming a lower bitrate version of the video if your internet is shit, instead of - again - locking up

For easy certificate management I use NginX Proxy Manager, for media I use Emby and for a domain I use Cloudflare but you can absolutely serve your server with DuckDNS or another DDNS service for free.

I paid about £200 to build my server, with a £30 CPU (Intel i6 3100), free motherboard, £50 PSU and £110 SFF case (rough costs), and holy fuck it’s so much cheaper than any subscription. Electricity is about £3-£5 a year and other costs are optional. I also sourced a GTX 970 for £90 that was more than up to the task of transcoding, but again, if you get a 12th gen you won’t need it.

I just remembered the HDD I started with was a spare (10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro, but I shucked (like shucking for pearls) an external HDD to get it, as I heard that you can get lucky and get a good drive for cheaper than it would cost to buy it. Said eHDD was about £250.

I found one called conduwuit and immediately used that to setup lol

I just do a lot of scavenging on the internet for prices, overclockers’ findings (they’re usually knowledgeable on how close to stock the cards are), specs like clockspeed, reviewers’ failure rates (average score and trending complaint reasons give a fair idea of build quality) and YouTubers’ gameplay comparisons with intensive games to see real-world framerate generation. Brands might change over time, so its always good to check again if its been a while, but generally their goals for modding GPUs stay the same.

If you are morally inclined, it’d also be prudent to do a quick background check on the brand for ethically terrible actions, like when was the last time they were responsible for a village’s drought, people dying, supporting cruelty to others etc. You can rate a brand by not only their care toward their product, but also toward customers via support and success of RMA (returns for defects), and toward humanity as a whole. ASUS score low on the customer front.

For those three, my experience has been Asus - overpriced, Sapphire - great value, Gigabyte - optimised but close to manufacture performance. My target has always been a Sapphire Radeon because they’re cheaper than Asus, but not suspiciously cheap that they might burn your rig down. ASRock are a good choice too, typically above average price:performance.

Oh I’ve been on that page before. What a doozy.

If you follow the conflict with Al-Qaeda, the furthest I could trace was those who ran the group orchestrated 9/11 because the USA murdered three of their members. Prior to that there was no intent to attack the US. The government is so hellbent on inventing conflict and convincing the poor lambs of their people that some localised conflict in Lebanon, if left unchecked, will end their family’s livelihood, that they seem to create extremists that are hellbent on Liberating their families from the US.

I’ve always thought of the USA as a ‘world police’ and I do not like their overreach.

That’s shocking. Interestingly, it only autogenerated that spiel for Gemma. Gemini (2.0 Flash for Image) generated perfectly fine

That’s another thing I’m sympathetic to the US about - voter apathy is a strong beast and it’s unfortunate that the majority (in nearly any country) is not bothered about any change in power. Especially regarding those who seek to remove rights and livelihoods of certain people, as that always bites the majority in the arse.

There are Palestinian Jews, honestly how did a colony of 300m allow an unschooled pleb to run things? The USA forces their influence on other countries, so this fuckery is not limited to one country.

This has to be fake…

They’ve been subjugating the Middle East to their bullshit for half a century, it’s a normal day at this point

The trick of retrofitting any battery powered device into a wired one is to remove the battery. No matter what, Li-ion batteries cannot sustain permanent power. Expensive adapters and new Androids can regulate power well, as can automations, but the best worry-free option is battery removal.

Edit: I’ve just remembered Fairphone, they’re bossing the mobile repair ability front and have removable batteries like pre-2012. Could get one of those

I had a long running plan that played out with my GTX 1080. I wanted my server (in my bedroom) to be as quiet as possible, and the (Gigabyte) 1080’s fans, with one slightly dodgy bearing, wasn’t going to cut it. I deshrouded it and ran thermal tests in my main PC. Long story short, while in the server machine it blitzed a local Piper model (<1s processing voice commands) and Emby transcoding with Max 5GB used. I know Piper is a far cry from an LLM, but at least you’ll know that its more than capable of everything else.

Edit: Here are my notes in case it helps anyone lol