I posted last week about being anxious for a big exam I had coming up. I was getting physically ill from the anticipation, and so I decided to just send it instead of waiting and studying until the last minute (it's a WGU OA, so I can take it whenever.)
I'm super happy to say that I absolutely crushed it! That's my last sit-down test, so now all that's between me and my Bachelor's is some essays and a work-based-learning experience! Needless to say I'm doing pretty good. :)
Goodness gracious you're far further along than me! I haven't touched it for a bit because I've been busy with other games, but I'll get back to it eventually because it's super fun. (Also GL on P20 I believe in you.)
Every day gets brighter. I've got an exam coming up that will probably decide whether I stay in school to finish my Bachelor's or drop out to double-down on my newfound career in IT. I'm honestly pretty tired of studying for a degree that seems meaningless given my current career trajectory, but sunk cost fallacy has me too invested to just quit. Plus I really don't want to have that conversation with my academic advisor.
Well at least I'm not the only one whose homelab ambitions are being crushed by their apartment layout. I think that I'm going to end up with a 2U compute rack, which means I'll probably limp along on one or two consumer low-profile GPUs. Now if only I could work out the details of the actual rack server hardware...
A Raspberry Pi cluster is interesting! My only real exposure to using Pis in a homelab was an old 1B I was using for PiHole. It was great right up until it stopped working.
Thank you for your kind words. Every day gets brighter.
For homelab, I'm not 100% sure yet. I'm at least going to be getting a Synology NAS to replace my ancient Lenovo EMC2. I really wanted to get some hardware for running LLama 2 and KobaldCPP, but I'm struggling to find something that's equal parts not noisy (I live in a studio), affordable(ish), and that has the minimum specs I'd need. I was unironically considering a Mac Mini with a rack converter because of the energy efficiency and powerful iGPU, but sadly they only ship up to 32GB of RAM. Since my reading suggests I'd want at least 64GB of RAM for LLama 2's 70B version, I'm having to try some other way of doing things. I just wish I didn't live in a studio so I could grab a secondhand rackmount server without worrying about noise levels. 😭
Just do what I did. Build a server that runs a Windows VM with GPU passthrough with the intention of using it as your own cloud gaming service, realize the performance is shit because you bought old Xeons with horrendous single-core performance, and give up and just accept that some games won't be playable because of anticheat. Nvidia please make GeForce Now usable at more than 1080p60 on Linux
The weekend was pretty rough for me. I'm currently going through a medication taper, and that combined with some other life stuff had me super depressed for a few days. I was actually gonna go see my dad for the first time in a decade, but I decided to cancel because I was
down and couldn't be bothered to drive for four hours and sleep somewhere that wasn't my home. (Also the weather along the coast is crap right now.)
Other than that, I've kept myself distracted with some planning for a new home lab. I'm starting to give a fuck about fashion, so I've got some new stuff coming in that I'm excited to try. I've also got a razor coming so I can do my first real head shave that isn't just the 1/8" that my clippers can manage.
It's okay. On my desktop with an Intel card my headphones occasionally have an issue where they'll stop actually playing sounds until I swap the codec in GNOME Settings. I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the headphones proper, because I don't think I've had the issue with my earbuds or when using them on my laptop.
Speaking of my laptop, if I have WiFi turned on, the Bluetooth goes to shit. It sounds fine, but the audio will randomly cut out. I blame Realtek.
MangoKangaroo @ MangoKangaroo @beehaw.org Posts 11Comments 291Joined 2 yr. ago
I posted last week about being anxious for a big exam I had coming up. I was getting physically ill from the anticipation, and so I decided to just send it instead of waiting and studying until the last minute (it's a WGU OA, so I can take it whenever.)
I'm super happy to say that I absolutely crushed it! That's my last sit-down test, so now all that's between me and my Bachelor's is some essays and a work-based-learning experience! Needless to say I'm doing pretty good. :)