My Mastodon instance disappeared a few weeks ago, so I’m getting a kick out of this post.

Thanks. Mine were wrong.

Beautiful response.

And we make it worse by saying “Just pick one. It doesn’t matter what instance you’re on because they’re federated.”

Some people are going to be very upset to find their local feed is a lot of content they don’t agree with. Or when they go out into the fediverse and people automatically assume they’re an A-hole because of the instance they’re from. I mean, it’s generally not that bad, but there are a few instances that are that bad.

And for people like me who gravitate toward smaller instances, that instance is probably gonna die. Happened to me twice already, 4 times if you count Mastodon and Peertube.

I agree with CameronDev, not so much on the capacity, but the bandwidth. At 100+ Gb, the Ryzen/Core platforms are really holding you back with their weak I/O.

If you need that much memory, you might be better off picking up a used Xeon/Epyc from Ebay. Their CPU speeds are lower, but the quad channel RAM could make up for it, depending on what you’re trying to do.

Classic episode; one of my favorite

Mastodon is still confusing to me. But that’s probably because I’ve never been on Twitter, FB, Insta, etc.

I probably won’t see Captain America:BNW anytime soon, but I enjoyed The Incredible Hulk.

One day it was the 18th largest Lemmy instance, then it just disappeared. No word from the owner or anything.

https://tchncs.de/en/ has a pretty good landing page.

It’s not so focused on the US. I live in the US and I’m getting tired of hearing about us.

Nice video. Looking at those instance names, I can pretty much tell the era when this video was made. I’m a vlemmy orphan.

Seems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.

And here I was complaining about cheeseburger.social going down. Our user count was well into the dozens. Dozens!

Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I’m like “what’d we ever do to you?”

Probably better to ask on !localllama@sh.itjust.works. 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.

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.

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

I pirated a certain ‘crash cars and shoot’em up’ game because, even though I own it on Steam, the gameplay (especially the launcher) absolutely sucks.

No more automatically downloading online content when I don’t even play online and no more updates breaking my mods. It’s worked out so well that I’m looking at pirating other games I already own.

Prove you are cat: Select all things that can be pushed off a table.