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  So I purposely told AI to make an AI slop ad for the chili cook-off at work tomorrow. Perfect use don't you think? 🤣 I fed it actual photos of my cookery and wanted it to look as slop-like as possible. Did I succeed?

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  Did #POTUS experience a Windows 95 style crash in that speech? ehhhhhh. 😆

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  Halloween party at work. We do it right around here 😆 technically, it is solar powered 🤣

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  New Strata engine now averaging 46tps, up from 33. EDIT: its really cranking now with OpenCode https://lydie.cc/solar-ai-serverv2.html #homelab #localai #llm #selfhosted #selfhosting #strata

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  Built a gaming PC for my 7 y/o nephew. Everything except the GPU came out of my parts boxes: an i5-10500 on a B460 board, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1 TB NVMe, an H510 case, a 700 W PSU. The RX 9060 XT 16 GB was the only “new” part, and I got it on eBay. I put Bazzite on it. Kid's got a $1700 (according to PCPartPicker) 1080p machine that cost me < $400 to build for him using my last spare DDR4 platform, and I feel it went to a great cause 😁 I even found a monitor, speakers, and KB+mo...

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  Testing turing-unlock on my triple 2080ti LLM server. Will report back. EDIT: I've never seen power max like this. Still testing. I need to repaste one. EDIT 2: Prompt ingestion is much faster. Regular inference is the same. So prompt to answering is now faster, but it draws some power! EDIT 3: Holy moly. Digital Spaceport's bench script result now uploaded. These results are 🤯 #llm #homelab #localai

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  The 4 Tesla P100 GPU rig with actual IR photo enhanced with a photograph of the same unit. The server is cranking out 46 tps now with Strata. I wonder if an unlock hack is coming for Pascal.... EDIT: There will be no unlock in the same way for Pascal since there are no tensor cores. But another type of hack may be possible, we shall see! https://lydie.cc/solar-ai-serverv2.html

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  Some people love to brag about their latest overpriced phone, or car, or watch. I brag about how cheap my refurb was 😁 We're not the same 😆

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  The setup for #DRAM and #NAND chip hoarding 😆 No seriously, I want to start hacking more #VRAM onto #GPUs and stuff #hacking

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  I put my mouse in the microwave !! Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something. So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet. A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't sta...

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  Thank goodness the Nobel Prize did not go to the tangerine terrorist. It would've lost much of it's prestige if it did.

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  #Ukraine opened the doors of hell on #Moscow last night. So many things set on fire. Ukraine's own ballistic missiles used for the first time!

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  Sammy making biscuits in pure bliss #caturday #cats #catsOfMastodon

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  That global economic collapse I've been talking about all year might just happen before EOY. And it is 100% the US Regime's fault. https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/saudis-european-refiners-no-crude-next-month

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  Buaahahahaha #meme #humor #ukraine

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  Heh. I've just achieved 10 gigabit Ethernet from router to my PC, via 3 10G switches. Now bring me that 5 gig fiber 😁😎😏

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  My #homelab #network topology. Yes, I had AI enhance the drawing - I included my original pencil drawing so you can see how crappy it is.

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  Dammit. As I prep for my new 5 gig fiber pipe, I've been upgrading some network things. Switches, NICs, etc. When I built my OPNSense router a few months back, I put in a Intel X540-T2 NIC not knowing that it operates at either 1 gig or 10 gig; nothing in between !!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #networking #homelab #opnsense

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  Yeah, it's called WWIII and the seeds are sown #war #economics #collapse #worldwariii #wwiii #conflict #america #russia #iran #china #taiwan

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  When your listening to MP3s you pirated 26 years ago and those mp3 glitches are still there from the botched download at 56k in 2000 😆

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  #Oracle downgraded one level above "junk". The #AI #bubble is now hissing really loud.

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  Good news! Your CRT will never spy on you.

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  Ukraine anti-drone drones now have shotguns on them so they can take out multiple enemy drones #ukraine

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  $25 grand in my pocket !! My #solar facts over two years. We are net positive in production and produce a few MWh over what we use. 1:1 net metering in #Maryland $42,000 initial investment. Total Lifetime Value: $67,228.86 Current Net Profit: $25,228.86 Lifetime clean energy generation has now avoided 345,438 lbs of CO2 emissions. A large chunk of energy goes into my personal data center, which includes a local LLM server, public information archive, and hundreds of TB of storage.

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  Some folks say the data center scrap won't be useful after the collapse. Like WTF do we do with soldered on HBM and NAND? Useless, right? But wait. There's more! In China, there are profitable shops that do crazy shit like making a 22GB 3080 or whatever. Well, those shops will have killer inventory after the pop. You know those Chinese ALIExpress outfits that sell old laptop GPUs on desktop cards? Shit like that? Now think about the overlap....thoughts?

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  Literally everything now should be #distributed, preferably across the world and not within a single country: -Power generation -Defense -Data centers -Social media -Public data -Your money -Medicine -Food production -Education In the event of war, as demonstrated in multiple conflicts today, anything #centralized is a #target. In the event of peace, as demonstrated by #fascist regimes, anything centralized is a target.

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  An update on my triple 2080ti on DDR3 local solar powered AI server. It's impressive for its age and the fact that I built it for $700 plus a bunch of old crap. Combined forces of older hardware works! I've got Hermes Agent running, the LLM is Qwen3.6-35B. Hermes has *read-only* access to my Google Workspace (for good reason!). The LLM can push 550w+ across the 3x 2080ti GPUs. 33GB of VRAM allows big model and big context - Home Assistant works so nicely with a big LLM. I want to d...

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  What if the #AI #bubble never pops because governments get involved and prop it up forever?

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  Local solar powered AI server build log: 07-06-2026: Assembled the core components for the first time. Had to update BIOS to make the 2080 ti work in this old board. Waiting for a couple odds and ends to arrive tomorrow, then I can button it up and begin the software work. Current spec list: * Intel Core i7-3930K CPU * Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Motherboard * 64GB DDR3 RAM (8 x 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-1600C9D-16GXM) * 3 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower Edition GPUs (33GB Total VRAM) * Corsair R...

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  Fuckin' Linux. Installed Ubuntu LTS on the AI server. Worked perfectly, all was well. Then ran an update...reboots to blank screen, but doesn't seem dead as disk i/o blinks periodically.