evranch @ evranch @lemmy.ca

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So here's the problem with piracy as a protest... It doesn't cost the publisher anything. Which has always been kind of the point of piracy.

Unfortunately when you pirate this game you receive an item of negative value, so I would recommend just staying away from the whole thing.

Despite my usual attitude towards free speech, I will put in the effort to peel an "Infowars" sticker off of a pole if it looks like easy prey.

Fuck Alex Jones and all the conspiracist bullshit he stands for

There's a huge world of clone printers, aftermarket mainboards, hotends, extruders etc. that doesn't look like it's going away.

Some manufacturers may go closed but it's way too easy to build your own printer for it to be a big concern in the FDM world.

Resin on the other hand already has lots of custom slicers, firmware etc. probably because there's a lot less mechanics and a lot more screen. But I'm not sure of the future of consumer resin anyways, a lot of people are realizing how toxic that unlabelled Chinese product really is.

Ok, I walked over to my PC to give you a working command line for llama.cpp. You need to make sure it is compiled with support for hipBLAS / ROCm which is the equivalent AMD framework to CUDA, if you want it to run on your GPU.

./main -ngl 24 -m models/tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0.Q5_K_M.gguf --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -i -ins

This will put it into interactive mode so you can try to chat with it. Running on my GPU it cranks out almost 160 tokens per second, which is way faster than anyone can type. On CPU (-ngl 0) it will make 90 which is still fast. TinyLlama is not a great chatter and should be treated more as a prediction or answer engine. i.e:

Write a paragraph about borscht.
Borscht is a traditional Russian soup made with beetroot, potatoes, and a variety of spices. It is often served during the winter months in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other Soviet-style countries. Borscht is similar to borscht in Poland, but has different ingredients and a slightly different preparation method. In Poland, beets are boiled until they become tender, then blended with potatoes and vegetable broth to create the soup. In Russia, beetroot is removed from the pot before cooking and replaced with other vegetables such as carrots, celery, and onions. The resulting mixture is then simmered until it is thickened, creating a hearty and flavorful soup. Borscht is usually served cold or at room temperature, and can be accompanied by sour cream, slices of crusty bread, or grilled meats such as kebabs.

It does know a surprising amount, considering it would fit on a CDROM

Start off with the Tinyllama model, it's under 1gb. It will even run on raspberry pi so on real PCs it rips even on CPU. You need a "quantized" model, they are distributed as GGUF files.

I would recommend 5 bit quantized. The less bits, the stupider to put it simply, and Tinyllama is already pretty stupid. But it's still impressive for what it is, and you can learn the jargon which is the hard part.

Fastest software to run the model on is llama.cpp which is a rewrite from python to C++. Use -ngl

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Not sure what system you're using, most AI development is done on Linux so if you're on Windows I can't guarantee anything will work.

Working right now on making a voice assistant for my house that can read all my MQTT data and give status reports, it's neat when you get it running. Fun to tweak it with prompts and see what it can do. Tinyllama can't seem to reliably handle MQTT and JSON but slightly smarter models can with ease.

My Chevy is like a rock, I have to farm around it

Oh, the plane is cheap. Aviation fuel and maintenance are where they get you.

Do it, it's easy and fun and you'll learn about the actual capabilities of the tech. Started a week ago and I'm a convert on the utility of local AI. Got to go back to Reddit for it but r/localllama has tons of good info. You can actually run useful models at a conversational pace.

This whole thread is silly because VRAM is what you need, I'm running some pretty good coding and general knowledge models in a 12GB Radeon. Almost none of my 32GB system ram is used lol either Microsoft is out of touch or hiding an amazing new algorithm

Running in system ram works but the processing is painfully slow on the regular CPU, over 10x slower

Lol, linking to YT shorts on Lemmy as if it's going to help your argument

Hah, maybe I was a little harsh. There has been a lot of development that went into it since the last time I tried it (long ago) and yes, there's something for everyone out there.

I just remembered the first time I tried it in my youth, when milk substitutes were new and exotic. Nasty! Then when I visited Taiwan, I was convinced that soy milk was delicious and not disgusting, and tried it. Asian soy milk is a precursor to tofu just like real milk is a precursor to cheese, and nothing like the product sold in North America. It's more like a hot bean soup, and I love beans. Every day for breakfast with a Chinese long donut

When I got back home, I thought maybe soy milk was worth another shot. With the delicious Asian product for comparison, the watery taste of "White people soy milk" as my girlfriend described it was like a slap in the face and solidified a lifetime hatred for the product ;)

I do agree with you on the protein content as far as milk substitutes go. But I lift weights and I add whey powder to whole milk, so I'll only ever consider milk substitutes to be exactly that, substitutes. There was a time in my life when I drank an entire gallon a day, resulting in adding 30 pounds to my frame permanently. Milk is amazing but my older guts definitely could not pull that off now. And I think my body would turn it into fat...

Sorry pal, I have to say that unless you're talking about the real thing that you can get in Asia, which is an amazing hot and creamy breakfast drink, soy milk is foul.

Though almond milk is basically a fraud, mostly water and hardly any almonds. And it tastes like it, so I can see how you rated it below soy milk, even if soy milk is awful.

If I must settle for fake milk, oat milk is where it's at. It doesn't have any weird off flavours, decent caloric content and is decently thick and rich. Probably the most environmentally friendly milk substitute as well because yeah, it's just oats.

We take it camping sometimes, as it handles the lack of refrigeration a lot better than the real thing.

They're still the only company that can get stuff shipped to rural Canada at a decent price. AliExpress often comes out more expensive once you pay for shipping, and you lose the return policy as well.

Buy from a Canadian company you say? Ha! Long before Amazon existed the prices were already inflated and shipping was insane. Amazon was a breath of fresh air just by bringing US prices to Canada.

Except for specific items like tools and PC components, Amazon still beats every shop in Canada.

I would argue that AI possibly makes a better companion in some ways when it's a little stupid. I've mostly ignored AI but have been experimenting with local models a bit the last couple days while stuck hiding from the cold.

I found I like AI best around the "talking dog" level of intellect. Kind of like the Titanfall AI, he's friendly and eager to uphold the mission, very competent at his job, but clearly not a human and kind of charmingly foolish. A dog is also a good companion, while clearly not a human and honestly a lot dumber than many AI models now.

Using it as an answer engine or to write code snippets feels like working with a dog on the farm, you talk to it but don't expect too much back. It doesn't give that uncanny feeling, just provides some company without feeling like something you're trying to replace other humans with.

I'm a lot more accepting of talking dogs than something that pretends to be your girlfriend. That just comes off weird and creepy, to me.

For some reason having it running on my machine made it feel more like a real entity than typing into the cloud. Hard to explain, but I found I treated it with a lot more dignity than a cloud based AI.

Stunned that they owned up to it and didn't bury the result

Look at the way ads used to look "back in the day", with details about the product, its features, and reasons you would actually want to buy it. New tractor model, this many HP, pulls 4 bottom plow, burns this much diesel per hour, buy now and grow more corn.

However it turned out that it worked better just to try to trick people into buying a product that they didn't need, and that's how we got the ads we have today.

Which civilians? The retaliatory strike targeted military targets only, and was intentionally telegraphed to destroy weapons with minimal loss of life.

If you're talking about previous conflicts in Yemen, those are completely irrelevant to the recent attacks on commercial shipping.

How did they not? Surely you can't be arguing that the civilian shipping vessels did something to deserve being fired upon?

Neat. That's something I never even thought of. When typing in Arabic, does the cursor proceed from right to left, then?

Is this somehow handled with locales, are custom operating systems required, or is it really only handled by specific editors like word processors?

I'm trying to imagine how this would work at, say, a console bash prompt.

It is possible to read the text, you know. You might learn something about how the world works.

Boo hoo, clearly you didn't read about how shipping is the lifeblood of the world, and it's not about some "stuff" not arriving. It's about not setting a precedent that anyone with a rocket launcher is allowed to take potshots at civilian vessels.

Without nuts and bolts and cultivator shovels and sickle knife sections Canada won't have grain to export to the rest of the world. Oh no, we don't make any of those ourselves? The world is extremely co-dependent now, which is part of the reason that we don't have any major wars going on.

You know who can stop this right now? Hamas can stop this right now. They are clearly not going to "win". Their prolonged actions are only causing suffering to their own people. They could do the honourable thing and SURRENDER which would end the war right now. But they aren't going to do that, because they aren't fighting for benefit of the Gazan people. They're fighting because they hate the Jews.

Israel walked away from Gaza many years ago, left it entirely under its own governance. If its people had put the past aside and chosen a path that led to alliances and peaceful cooperation with the world, it could be a bustling trade hub and a beautiful little vacation destination on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Instead they chose their hatred of the Jews and spent decades launching rockets into Israel.

The same applies to the Houthis. Yemen could be a prosperous nation like its neighbours. Instead it's a war-torn dump in abject poverty. Ever wonder why we sell weapons to our questionable "ally" of Saudi Arabia to fight them? Because for all that SA is terrible, the Houthis are worse.

Do you think their Iranian backers will tell them to back down once they learn that they have full control over a major shipping lane, and the ability to blackmail the world with it? That's the true path that leads to WW3.