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> Grab a SearXNG instance, stand up an MCP server for it Which MCP server do you use?
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How useful is the second 3090 in this setup? I run the 5-bit quantized model on a single 3090. Does the second 3090 allow you to use the full precision model instead or a less aggressive quantization by splitting the layers? What about runn
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Has anyone managed to cleanly integrate Web search into local models (run with llama.cpp)? The biggest limitation of the class of models that fit into one or two consumer GPUs is that they lack world knowledge, but presumably this can be re
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But the GDPR does not achieve anything in practice. You get annoying cookie/tracking banners that you are effectively forced to accept in order to use the website, and companies keep collecting data. They promise not to misuse the data
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Works beautifully on a 3090, very usable speed. Don't expect Opus 4.8-level performance, but there are some things you just need to keep local.
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What are you supposed to learn from the banner anyway? It's just an additional annoyance. You should just assume that anything that your browser exposed may be used to track you. The real problem is that most browsers and browser confi
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> European here. I like the cookie law. It's made it clear to people how much we're being tracked and I can choose to opt out. Opting out of cookies does not mean no tracking. Tracking companies moved away from cookies a decade
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Since the AirPods are an offline device, if you buy a pair now they should work indefinitely. But perhaps it would be better to reward manufacturers that don't make you jump through such hoops to use the hardware that you bought.
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It would be useful to explain to people who don't currently own AirPods and don't really follow Apple stuff much what features are lost when AirPods are paired with a non-Apple device.
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Solution to the Flock problem: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vandals-strike-cut-flock-c...
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You can see it in the Japanese data. Japan is more or less closed to immigrants, is experiencing a (for now) slow population decline, and house prices are plummeting.
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Lol, Europeans are quick to adopt all the worst things from America related to tech, including social media, streaming services, proprietary software, iPhones, and random IoT garbage.
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> There are still a LOT of working ballistic missile launchers. About half or so have been destroyed if one averages various estimates. The continuation of combat operations was the sensible option: not finishing off a wounded but aggres
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They can, to some extent, but drone stockpiles and factories can be targeted and destroyed by conventional means. It is difficult to destroy them ALL, but it is certainly a problem that can be addressed to a degree without taking over the c
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> But Israel has continued to attack intensively in Lebanon Israel is not part of the deal, wasn't directly involved in discussions, and did not sign anything.
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> Admiral Cooper that brought us the famous 24h "Project Freedom"? Pardon our skepticism, some of their plans maybe sound nice to them At least some form of it secretly continued until now.
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> Then why is "glass the entire country" not an option? It is an option, but civilians bear most of the cost of it. That being said, I do think more could have been done militarily. The U.S. should have continued combat operati
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> But this may be one of the few times we have been unable to achieve a purely military objective. The U.S. has been secretly moving ships for months. And Iran no longer has any significant naval force, it's all been wiped out. What
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> What software you can run on your computer can already be restricted. Yes, over my dead body.
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I recently installed Arch Linux on a fairly old (but not ancient) Intel T2 Mac, with the GNOME DE, and it uses less than 1.5GB of RAM. I went for the standard gnome package which as far as I can tell is "batteries included." That
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Those old tiny/micro PCs make for wonderful TV steaming boxes, and easily replace Fire TV sticks, AppleTV boxes, Rokus and other similar proprietary garbage. They are also great for retro gaming.
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Oh yes, the country that lost basically all its navy, air force, a large number of military facilities and couldn't defend its airspace. Iran won a lot indeed!
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It's a voice assistant that can respond to commands such as "turn on the light," or explain things (within the abilities of the small model).
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> If you have a fixed computer or NAS, stop making excuses and install a 10G fiber card in it. It's hard to justify when Ethernet is catching up. Most new motherboards have a 2.5G port. High-end motherboards have 10G Ethernet ports.
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The Pixel 10a is on sale for $399 on Amazon right now, and it's a far better device, and it can run GrapheneOS.
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> No one needs anything, but can and do I use more than 1Gbps from my laptop? Of course. I agree, but laptops are severely power and storage limited. How many >100GB games or whatever can you really download and actually play on a typ
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> Google is so anti open it's the new Microsoft. You can unlock a Pixel's bootloader and install GrapheneOS. It would be highly ironic if the Jolla's was locked.
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> /etc configuration instead of the insanely bad system properties crap, glibc instead of bionic [...] The practical downside, however, is that this phone does not natively run Android apps, while GrapheneOS runs all Android apps ba
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Consider this. One of the smallest Qwen models (4B parameters) powers my home automation voice assistant, and runs on CPU alone at >20 tok/s. It is enough for that use case, and could be made even better/faster with a modest GP
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They aren't huge at all, the new RTL cards are tiny. I wish 2-port versions were available for a home server upgrade.

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