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Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available?
  • I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

    Are you using LLMs as search engines?

    Bold.

    I use Gemma, LLama 3.2, and Deepseek to either fix formatting, summarize documentation to give me commands for Linux software, and write simple code structure for me to refine into working code.

    Sure it takes longer to generate than a cloud compute would, but

    1. privacy obviously. I know you dismissed it but that's really the biggest reason anyone will have.

    2. this feels better environmentally. I actually don't know if that's true, but it objectively touches less computers for such simple tasks. It would be wasteful of infrastructure to do it over the web.

    3. it's just cooler to have a conversation with my computer. I've learned a lot about how the whole process works and that's more valuable to me as a non dev than just getting the end results.

  • Is there any community for Linux for noobs ?
  • Missed the lore.

    Why boycott .ml ?

  • What's your monitor setup?
  • Gaming rig: 32" 1440p monitor, Ryzen 7 5800x, 32 gigs DDR4, RX 6600xt, 4 TB NVME storage

    Laptop/WFH desk: 2x 24" Lenovo Tiny in One monitors I got for free, Dell Docking station gotten for free (I mostly spend time here)

    Server: EPYC 7302P, 109 GB DDR4 ECC memory, RTX 5060ti, RTX 3060 12gb, 40 TB of HDD storage, 8 TB of SATA SSD storage

  • Been job searching for a year and no luck. What to I do now?
  • Couple things

    1. Start applying for things you're not sure and you know you aren't qualified for. Often recruiters or HR people don't actually know what the fuck the job needs and just sorta copies similar job titles recs. Once you're able to talk to the actual hiring manager, then you can see if you're a good culture fit and if they can give you some on the job training.

    2. Get a job at something not really what you wanna do but feels related enough. For me, my big break into my career was working at a call center for a hospital. It was not IT related, but it got me office experience that I spun into IT experience.

  • Ah yes, the classic Vortex gambit
  • Before ever game of classical chess I play over the board I coat my opponents pieces in DMT.

    Eventually it gets absorbs through their skin and I can convince them it's all a nightmare that only ends if they resign.

    I call it the MK Ultra gambit

  • I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start?
  • My "production" home lab is 3 Optiplex 3050 with i7-7700. They work great and are pretty low power.

  • war rule
  • My last job had a massive wall of screens. And it was explicitly to impress government officials.

    It had a news live stream playing (cycling between CNN, MSNBC, and ABC News), the weather, live camera feeds of both our on site and offsite DR data center, as well as live feed of our store room and basement (where all the cooling and power was routed). The screens also displayed all of our dashboards like nagios, Citrix, and Oracle. There was one that gave alerts if a system was down.

    And this was all displayed on an array of 3 rows and 4 columns of 55 inch TVs using a chrome extension called "Revolver" to cycle through.

    We actually only used like 3 of the total 20 rotating screens and it was way more efficient to have them running on my own 55" TV as a monitor just using power toys to give it a dedicated corner and then the rest could do emails and news.

  • Why isn't this checkmate?
  • BBC from a distant corner!

    Oh no the white queen is getting blacked!

    He brought a CUCK CHAIR it's over folks!

  • Oodles of noodles
  • Noods of shame

  • PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)
  • Its how you can tell PDP fans weren't paying attention. He promoted it a few times but it didn't gain any traction and he abandoned it.

    Or maybe it just didn't help with the fascism allegations from the bridge moment and the Fiverr incidents since those all happened about the same time.

    Hell, he had Ben Shapiro host an episode of LWIAY. Sure it wasn't peak genocide apologizer we have now Benny Boy, but he was still a verifiable dick head grifter.

  • What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?
  • You got into Self Hosting for unreasonable ideological reasons

    I got into self hosting to avoid AWS Fees

    We are not the same

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  • I agree with most everything here.

    A solid Medkit/IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) should be your next purchase easily.

    Then Battle belt > Survival Gear/Bug out pack > Upgrade to plate carrier/chestrig

    But if you think you're going to pickup hunting or your home defense situation changes, I'd get a shot gun after the Medkit

    Also Training + Ammo is always a given.

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  • Try some range time with both and see what is more comfortable to you while shooting.

    It's important to try it while shooting because that's when it matters.

  • PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)
  • He's also promoted the books of fascist talking heads like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Steven Crowder through his book club.

    There's a reason the Christ Church shooter yelled "Subscribe to PewDiePie" besides being a topical meme.

  • would you rather be tortured for an hour and but have your memory of that hour wiped later, or be tortured for a minute but have lucidity and good memory of it later?
  • I think you'd like Severance first of all.

    Second, if I do not remember it at ALL like including trauma responses or subconscious stuff, then the hour. EZ

  • My SBR is now suppressed AND Super Safe
  • I'm glad it's so safe! You never know when you need that extra safety!

  • PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)
  • When I stopped watching in 2018/2019 he had his collection of edgy scandals, but I mostly worry about his book club that featured Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson amongst the authors he's recommended.

    I have no idea if he's stopped/apologized/started being at least progressive. But that's why I wrote him off years ago

  • ultralight backpacking @lemmy.today nagaram @startrek.website
    Xero Shoes Alternatives?

    I've been wearing Xero shoes as my preferred every day shoe and my hiking shoe of choice for a while. I got a few pairs on a steep sale and now my last pair is starting to die.

    I don't mind getting more, but I'd like to see what else is out there. I used to wear Altra and I've gotten Hobbart shoes, but those were weird shaped and rubbed on my pinky toes.

    Any suggestions for foot shaped shoes? I'd prefer some cushion like Altras and bonus if there's a business casual looking variety

    !

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    PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)
  • I doubt it will be a meaningful change.

    And I don't know how much I want to share a community with Pewds community. He had been pushing fascist ideas for a while. I have no clue honestly if he's gotten better, but those are my misgivings.

  • SIEM

    I am studying for my Network+ and my Sec+ hoping to shadow our Cyber Sec guy at work.

    I want to set up a SIEM on my home network so I can be used to it's operations and how it works by the time I start messing with Pentesting stuff. Then I'm going to use it to try and track myself when I pentest myself.

    I was looking into Graylog or Security Onion since they seem to have decent documentation (and I can find videos on how to set them up which is nice).

    I was recommended building my own ELK stack and doing everything manually for maximum learning potential. Which I understand why this is a good idea, but I think I'd rather be as close to "baby's first SIEM" as possible or at least have a robust how-to guide.

    What do you suggest?

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    Have you trained today?

    Hello comrades! Friendly reminder that American leftists continue to be threatened by gun loving conservatives. You should know how to defend yourself and you should probably own a gun. Find an active SRA, John Brown Gun Club, or (if things are dire) pink pistols or other "apolitical" gun club.

    I've been in the SRA for 4 years, it's not great, but I met comrades local to me. I've learned a lot from them and fash who post good firearms advice and I love to share that when I can.

    Open for questions and I'll post more getting started stuff if this doesn't get banned.

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    nagaram nagaram @startrek.website

    Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

    I'm open for chats on mastodon https://hachyderm.io/

    my blog: thinkstoomuch.net

    My email: nags@thinkstoomuch.net

    Always looking for penpals!

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