OpticalMoose

OpticalMoose, 6 days 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, 7 days ago

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

OpticalMoose, 3 months ago

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/c1297424-6cd4-443a-bcdc-e874cf91571e.jpeg

Monty Brewster approves.

OpticalMoose, 10 days ago

Ollama doesn’t currently support mixing CUDA & ROCm. github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3723#issuecomment…

One thing to keep in mind about adding RAM your speed could drop depending on how many slots you populate. For me, I have a 5700G and with 2x16Gb, it runs at 3200Mhz, but with 4x16Gb(same exact product), it only runs at 1800Mhz. In my case, RAM speed has a huge effect on tokens/sec, if I have a model that has to use some RAM.

You can check AMD’s spec page for your processor, but they don’t really document a lot of this stuff.

OpticalMoose, 10 days ago

Yep, I had been hoping for the same thing.

Also, to @projectmoon, 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.

OpticalMoose, 9 days ago

Awesome. I never heard of Kino Lorber before they announced Monk on Blu-Ray, but now I’m a fan.

OpticalMoose, 11 days ago

This is why I want Intel Arc to succeed, because maybe it’ll make AMD take Radeon more seriously. It’s been a steady decline since the ATI days (2006)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/0a54a224-3cd1-40ba-96c4-3147de40cac6.pngSource

I love my Ryzen though.

OpticalMoose, 3 days ago

Awesome. I’d heard that Pat was one of Redd’s old friends from the “Chitlin’ Circuit” era of comedy, but I’ve never actually seen him do standup.

OpticalMoose, 1 day ago

Renegade Cut had a pretty good video about her. 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, 21 hours ago

It’s ok though, they have fecal transplants that can help.

How often do you hear that sentence?
(For anybody who’s never heard of it, it’s exactly what it sounds like)

OpticalMoose, 3 days ago

Probably better to ask on !localllama. Ollama should be able to give you a decent LLM, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) will let it reference your dataset.

The only issue is that you asked for a smart model, which usually means a larger one, plus the RAG portion consumes even more memory, which may be more than a typical laptop can handle. Smaller models have a higher tendency to hallucinate - produce incorrect answers.

Short answer - yes, you can do it. It’s just a matter of how much RAM you have available and how long you’re willing to wait for an answer.

OpticalMoose, 44 minutes ago

Slammed, you say? Good heavens!

OpticalMoose, 3 hours ago

I think this is just how they keep in touch over social media.

OpticalMoose, 4 hours ago

Well, lots of people have ham at Easter, so a roast on Memorial Day isn’t out of the question.

OpticalMoose, 3 hours 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.

OpticalMoose, 11 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

I think it’s because architecture-wise, these are more in line with the 8000 series. The 7500F is a full featured Ryzen 7000, but with broken graphics. These are basically 8000 series APUs, so they have the lower PCIe version, lower cache and fewer PCIe lanes, and broken graphics.

I suspect the price will come down soon because no one should be buying these at this price. The 8400F is only $10 less than a full 8500G.
Edit: I just saw that the 8400F is a six-core, so maybe that helps justify the price.

OpticalMoose, 17 hours ago

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.