I was thinking about that now that I have Mac Minis on the mind. I might even just set a mac mini on top next to the modem.

“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.” - Lucretius

“To such heights of evil has religion been able to drive men”

As much as I admire religion as a community building exercise, I think its capacity for evil is MUCH greater than unbelief.

So as fascinated with the history and the philosophy of religions as I am, I can never believe because of this fact along with a great many others.

Hell in Christian theology is interesting because the books themselves never actually describe Hell. In fact all places where Hell is miss attributed in the bible are actually real places that existed.

Gehenna is one such place and it’s just a real place in Jerusalem that was allegedly filled with evil people who committed child sacrifices.

Hell only exists as a revenge fiction written by Dante to accuse all the people he hated of being bad people.

So in a way, this is hell only in that the only promise of being a Christian is eternal life in heaven with the alternative being you just got the one shot here at life. And even then the books aren’t really clear if Heaven is a place or if it’s just Earth after Armageddon and then followers get resurrected to experience eternal life on a new earth that’s been rid of evil.

There’s some really interesting books on this like “Hell the Final Word” by Edward Fudge but that’s more of a processing of Hell as a cultural phenomena than just christian IIRC

As an Atheist, probably Richard Dawkins for being a transphobe and inventing the word “meme”

Ollama + Gemma/Deepseek is a great start. I have only ran AI on my AMD 6600XT and that wasn’t great and everything that I know is that AMD is fine for gaming AI tasks these days and not really LLM or Gen AI tasks.

A RTX 3060 12gb is the easiest and best self hosted option in my opinion. New for <$300 and used even less. However, I was running with a Geforce 1660 ti for a while and thats <$100

A mac is a very funny and objectively correct option

I think I’m going to have a harder time fitting a threadripper in my 10 inch rack than I am getting any GPU in there.

I do already have a NAS. It’s in another box in my office.

I was considering replacing the PIs with a BOD and passing that through to one of my boxes via USB and virtualizing something. I compromised by putting 2tb Sata SSDs in each box to use for database stuff and then backing that up to the spinning rust in the other room.

How do I do that? Good question. I take suggestions.

With a RTX 3060 12gb, I have been perfectly happy with the quality and speed of the responses. It’s much slower than my 5060ti which I think is the sweet spot for text based LLM tasks. A larger context window provided by more vram or a web based AI is cool and useful, but I haven’t found the need to do that yet in my use case.

As you may have guessed, I can’t fit a 3060 in this rack. That’s in a different server that houses my NAS. I have done AI on my 2018 Epyc server CPU and its just not usable. Even with 109gb of ram, not usable. Even clustered, I wouldn’t try running anything on these machines. They are for docker containers and minecraft servers. Jeff Geerling probably has a video on trying to run an AI on a bunch of Raspberry Pis. I just saw his video using Ryzen AI Strix boards and that was ass compared to my 3060.

But to my use case, I am just asking AI to generate simple scripts based on manuals I feed it or some sort of writing task. I either get it to take my notes on a topic and make an outline that makes sense and I fill it in or I feed it finished writings and ask for grammatical or tone fixes. Thats fucking it and it boggles my mind that anyone is doing anything more intensive then that. I am not training anything and 12gb VRAM is plenty if I wanna feed like 10-100 pages of context. Would it be better with a 4090? Probably, but for my uses I haven’t noticed a difference in quality between my local LLM and the web based stuff.

That’s fair and justified. I have the label maker right now in my hands. I can fix this at any moment and yet I choose not to.

I’m man feeding orphans to the orphan crushing machine. I can stop this at any moment.

Oh and my home office set up uses Tiny in One monitors so I configured these by plugging them into my monitor which was sick.

I’m a huge fan of this all in one idea that is upgradable.

These are M715q Thinkcentres with a Ryzen Pro 5 2400GE

Not really a lot of thought went into rack choice. I wanted something smaller and more powerful than my several optiplexs I had.

I also decided I didn’t want storage to happen here anymore because I am stupid and only knew how to pass through disks for Truenas. So I had 4 truenas servers on my network and I hated it.

This was just what I wanted at a price I was good with at Like $120. There’s a 3D printable version but I wasn’t interested in that. I do want to 3D print racks and I want to make my own custom ones for the Pis to save space.

But this set up is way cheaper if you have a printer and some patience.

Not much. As much as I like LLMs, I don’t trust them for more than rubber duck duty.

Eventually I want to have a Copilot at Home set up where I can feed a notes database and whatever manuals and books I’ve read so it can draw from that when I ask it questions.

The problem is my best GPU is my gaming GPU a 5060ti and its in a Bazzite gaming PC so its hard to get the AI out of it because of Bazzite’s “No I won’t let you break your computer” philosophy, which is why I did it. And my second best GPU is a 3060 12GB which is really good, but if I made a dedicated AI server, I’d want it to be better than my current server.

Rough. It was a great handle. Fortunately he still pops up when you search sexuallobster

Gone but not forgotten!

I just built a mini rack with 3 Thinkcentre tiny PCs I bought for $175 (USD) on eBay. All work great.

SINCE WHEN DID SEXUAL LOBSTER CHANGE HIS NAME TO GREASY TALES

Fuck, we were talking to an expert

I always tell the interviewer what they want to hear. Its very obviously a game of correct answers.

I lie on my resume too, but not in ways I can’t back up.

For instance, I imply I have a degree because I did go to college for 4 consecutive years for a multitude of degrees. So I have different resumes with different majors depending on what job I’m applying to. I mostly use my CS/Engineering degree now-a-days. I’m able to talk the talk enough that they’ve never checked or asked for a transcript.

But it sounds more like your job wanted to, on paper, be compliant with workers rights stuff

“We offer a break at X and Y hours.”

But had a cultural expectation to not follow it. Which is dumb and they can, in my humble opinion, get fucked. Nursing has a massive burnout rate and shit like that is why.

I think you should recognize you dodged a bullet more than you should think about “lying” in an interview.

I gotta see my spell work damn it!