Always go with more ram. I can say that from experience.

I’m partial to fanless, but keep in mind my empire of dirt is almost entirely fanless so I’m just partial to it.

I’m running a 4B model on one of my machines, an old surface book 1.

It’s a brutal machine. heat issues, and the GPU doesn’t work in linux. But pick a minimal enough model and it’s good enough for me to have LLM access in my nextcloud if for some reason I wanted it.

Biggest thing really seems to be memory, most cheaper GPUs don’t have enough to run a big model, and CPUs are dreadfully slow on larger models if you can put enough RAM in one of them.

Why my firewall is a fanless sign PC. Never really heats up, and I don’t need to worry about the unreliability added by fans.

To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other’s documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.

For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don’t properly migrate to LibreOffice.

Depends exactly what you’re doing on that old PC.

If you just need to connect for administration and the like, VNC is decent. It’s my default.

If you want to watch videos or the like, I’d definitely suggest Sunlight and Moonlight. It’s a streaming remote desktop that’s meant for streaming gaming, and so it’s really good at video and audio.

Oh, and for anyone who has never used it, Apache guacamole is a really neat tool for centralizing configuration. Effectively, you can set it up as a website with a username and password that will transfer through ssh, telnet, VNC, and RDP, so if you need to hop into something while you are outside the home, it’s going to be effective. That’s something that I wish I had known about earlier, it would have made a lot of rough days a lot easier.

On the topic of dns, I still use GoDaddy. People ask why, it’s because GoDaddy seems like a good idea in 2003 when I got my first domain, and 2006 when I got my current one. At that point it’s just inertia, I tend to buy several years in advance because I don’t like annual payments, I know it makes me a weirdo. That means I’m locked in for several years and it’s not enough of a problem to do anything about.

Anyone who uses GoDaddy knows that they turned off their dynamic DNS option quite some time ago. My system is pretty stable so I don’t usually need to change it, but if I have a power failure at home or I need to reboot my router, I obviously need to change my DNS at those moments.

When I’m away from home, I end up having to use TeamViewer to hop into a jump box vm I have set up for that purpose. The two obvious problems with that are first of that TeamViewer is a proprietary product, and the second of all that they see me hopping into a jump box regularly and they assume that I’m a commercial customer. There is apparently a way to tell them that you’re just a hobbyist, but I haven’t gotten around to filing that.

What I did do is set up a script that compares the current IP to my DNS IP, and if they are different then I send myself an email that contains the old IP in the new IP. This way, I don’t need to hop into my network to find out what the new IP address is. I also added a little bit there to save the last successful IP address sent by email to /tmp/ so that if I lose my IP address but I’m doing something where I can’t hop onto the GoDaddy website to fix it, I don’t get 100,000 emails with my new IP address.

I killed my house power a couple weeks ago, and the whole system worked exactly as intended. I was pretty happy to see that.

Erm… Yeah, that’s matrix with encryption enabled on the room.

A lot of things people say about matrix don’t apply to conduit. I’ve run it on an Intel Atom d2550 and it ran fine.

I’d be worried about having some of the voat stuff on a hard drive I own.

I’m surprised GitHub hasn’t automatically nixed the archive.

Always has been.

Even if you like who’s in charge right now, they could change how they act or they could be replaced.

They could shut us down or do a lot of things, but it’s harder to break 10,000 servers than one.

I’ve been running my own, it’s mostly automated now. I started a yacy instance as well so not only am I aggregating bigger websites, I’m including the sites I crawled myself and the other sites available on yacy through it’s huge p2p search functionality. In this little way, I’m trying to make sure my search isn’t totally dominated by corporate search.

Tbh, yacy is 1000x harder to keep running than searxng.

I’m amenable to luanti with voxelibre.

Though I don’t like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you’d hear about in a drug commercial. “Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death”

That’ll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.

That’s been my experience too.

Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.

By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn’t a regular streaming service you’d probably never know because it’s so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all – she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn’t want to change to her new one from 2 years ago – but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.

I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.

Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.

Everyone always stares at other people’s resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.

So is it a big question if it doesn’t really matter because we can’t do anything about it?

Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

Glad I upgraded before it was too late.

Ran windows 95 on a thin client a couple years ago.

I forgot that you could just end up with a broken install from the word go. I had to reinstall twice until it was stable. I didn’t do anything in particular different, it just didn’t take that time.