Smokeydope
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- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
I had luck with using vulcan in kobold.cpp as a substitute for rocm with my amd card.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
Your primary gaming desktop gpu will be best bt for running llms first check your card for exact information more vram the better. Nvidia is preferred but AMD cards work.
First you can play with llamafiles to just get started no fuss no muss download them and follow the quickstart to run as app.
Once you get it running and want better performance or latest models then you can spend some time installing and running kobold.cpp with cublas or vulcan and GPU offloading.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
First you need to get a program that reads and runs the models. If you are an absolute newbie who doesn’t understand anything technical your best bet is llamafiles. They are extremely simple to run just download and follow the quickstart guide to start it like a application They recommend llava model you can choose from several prepackaged ones. I like mistral models.
Then once you get into it and start wanting to run things more optimized and offloaded on a GPU you can spend a day trying to setup kobold.cpp.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
To see if it can do it and how accurate its general knowledge is compared to the real data. A locally hosted LLM doesnt leak private data to the internet. Most webpages and reddit post in search results are themselves LLM generated slop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The word itself is actually a pretty good slang to describe the common act that human beings possess of psychologically coping, which can also paired with the funny meme of someone actually huffing a substance called copium. I’m usually the one criticizing new unnecessary words I think are stupid but I like this one better than most others.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do you have cars in your country? If so consider moving into a vehicle and converting it out to both gain freedom and remove rent from the equation. Its not easy or feasable for everyone but perhaps an option to consider. If your family has big back yard maybe put down a four season tent anf move into it so you don’t have to deal with them.
- Comment on 1+1= 1 month ago:
Hey TherapyGary I speak as a Locallamma bro, its so obvious this is chatgpt generated. Its in bad taste to copy paste AI slop in discussion fourms. Write your own words using the mushy neural network in your brain.
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Very weird fun fact about arrows/darts and statistics, theres 0% chance of hitting an exact bullseye. You can hit it its possible to throw a perfect bullseye. It just has a probability of zero when mathematically analyzed due to being an infinitesimally small point.
- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 2 months ago:
I do speak as a person from north america and made tried to cover my ass with the beginning statement of this isn’t going to apply for everyone figuring europe or other countries will have different challenges in government and feasability. You do raise some good questions. I get the impression you don’t really have any use for my answers though. Someone who measures saved money in frappachino lattes and is so cemented in their particular job they are unwilling to commute long distance, switch jobs, or move to a cheaper area, probably isn’t willing to sacrifice any amount of convinence for the kind of lifestyle im advocating. Regardless ill answer your questions earnestly and hope it informs.
For food, you cook your own meals obviously. 12v fridge and house batteries or perserved shelf stable foods. Most people who live in cars have propane or disel fuel for cooking and heat, or enough battery capacity to run a portable induction cooktop and electric water boiler. You can even power appliances needed for your precious frappachinos to make yourself. You spend free time at public parks and nature reserves, go hiking, camping, find things to do besides sitting around in one place. On bad days you still can hang inside the car. In north america theres a lot of free public land for recreational use and free dispersed camping especially out west.
Having a mailing address to put down on govt and banking paperwork is a challenge if you are homeless. There are ways to get a mailing address and there are mail forwarding buisnesses that you can use. I think the endgame scenario is you would eventually get a plot of land and register a mailing address.
- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 2 months ago:
Thanks for sharing you and your wifes story. Ive been watching Bob for many years he’s a huge inspiration and source of hope for many of us in these harsh times. Good luck on your journey I wish you guys the best with finding cheap land or whatever other choice you may take.
- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 2 months ago:
Those two steps are the core tenants of our global economy. You need money to live, its just a question of how much you need and how ell you can save. If you want to boil down my five paragraph essay into a slightly smaller tldr its more like
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Have any amount of money from work, passive income, social security, pension, or other legit means. Be smart with your finances and start budgeting what little you have. Try to learn how to grow passive income so you don’t have to work for every scrap of money.
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Find ways to reduce the amount of money you spend each month in every way you can. The biggest expense most people have is rent or mortgage which easily eats over 1k per month or 12k a year. If you have a car consider moving into it for a few months and save up a couple thousand for a nicer car or cheap plot of land or to take a long sabbatical.
Everyone needs a bit of money to get by in this world. Some people make buckets of money and are still broke by the time the end of the month comes because they live in high COL area or have poor financial sense like buying a new car every year as status symbol or collecting warhammer figurines.
Some people make barely anything at all from meager social security and still find ways to save up a few hundred a month just by budgeting and reducing expenses. Whether or not you have money often is determined from a place of psychology not privilege.
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- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 2 months ago:
Alright lemmy commenters you want the real secret sauce on How to live comfortably with the least amount of money? I can tell you my strategy. This won’t work for everyone, and many of you won’t like what I have to say.
loans and rent are a scam. Never go into debt, never open a credit card. Pay for convinences and nice things with the money you actually have saved up or learn to live without. don’t subscribe to anything recourrring but phone and internet payments.
Live well below your means, not right at them or slightly above. If you live paycheck to paycheck and arent able to save up a dime for an emergency fund you will get screwed eventually.
invest in ways of generating passive income. diversify, have a portfolio, learn the difference between money, value, and assets. Leverage the concepts and apply them. Take a chance and put 100$ somewhere in the financial market, fail and loose some money, learn something from it, try again until you start growing money.
live out of your vehicle. Rent is a scam that preys upon your willingness to whore yourself out socioeconomically for quick illusionary scraps of safety and convinence that month. Any car, van, or truck can be converted into a liveable space. Its hard to adjust to such a different way of living at first but if you can do so the benefits of adapting to that kind of lifestyle is massive. You become your own landlord and pay yourself rent. Your only expenses becomes insurance and maintance.
Donate your plasma. It’s a relatively safe procedure, You can do it twice a week, and it provides a part time jobs worth of income.
Change your psychology. Society has ingrained upon us from birth a sense that our worth as human beings is determined by productivity and value we can provide. You see a lot of people in the comments here rail on NEETs Who aren’t currently in the job market while still somehow living a life. You dont need to be employed all he time.You don’t need to work all the time to live a comfortable life. If you live the way I just described you can work 6 months or a year saving up the money and coast on the funds for a year or two before working again. You can be free to travel the country living dirt cheap for many many months. Is that NEET life? Maybe. But wouldnt you like a sabbatical like that? A break from the years of work grinding?
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 2 months ago:
I always felt that humanoid aliens were also a way to get the audience to more easily emotionally connect and treat them as characters. We have a hard time recognizing sentience and the capability of feeling in other animals. Its easier to relate to blue cat person than to the Blob
- Comment on circuits 2 months ago:
W E R I S E ⚡
- Comment on circuits 2 months ago:
Circuit analysis was so boring and teedious I didnt like doing it at all. Thanks for the relatable meme for all dozen of us EE on sciencememes
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 2 months ago:
Nah australians are too busy surfing, smoking pot, hanging out with sasquaches, partying at the indigenous peoples sacred islands, and shooting the local wildlife. At least, thats what I learned from watching The Big Lez Show.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 2 months ago:
At least we will have mummy jerky… For now.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Since we are talking hypotheticals, an ideal scenario would be a nearly completely renewables approach where each household is its own self contained energy production center equippef with solar arrays, wind turbines, thermoelectric generators. Various means of production. And have either propane or diesel as a backup. Most importantly a big battery array for storing energy long term during bad weather.
Most household electrical wiring is redone for DC transmission and all consumer appliances possible are run straight on DC for optimal efficency. Energy efficent heat pumps for cooling and heating. energy efficent cooking appliances like induction heaters. Electric cars that act as backup battery banks would be awesome.
Humanity simply does not “stop” because we run out of non-renewable electrical energy. We did fine enough before the industrial revolution, the Amish do fine now, backwoods countrymen do fine now, and renewables + energy efficent consumer devices have improved a bunch.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 2 months ago:
Your centipede would be drone striked and the jumbo-wumbo gun research would be used to fuel a new division of the military industrial complex before NATO ever got a chance to add it to the no-no list.
- Comment on Responsible Adults 2 months ago:
You eat this mandelbrot set right now mister or theres no desert for you!
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
I am a hippy nature person who tries to be merciful and kind to plants or insects. The sole exception is mosquitoes. Those fuckers want to take my blood and dont settle for one serving if they get the chance. Were in a biological armrace and so far we’ve been loosing. Let’s see how they like being fucked with.
- Comment on #STOPIT 3 months ago:
No, thats impossible. I just saw her and the kids last week. This is the last case I swore to crack before we head off on family vacation. Image
- Comment on #STOPIT 3 months ago:
Sandy Loam. Who is she and why can’t I reach her?
- Comment on Anon gets a pizza 3 months ago:
Hey hey people.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 3 months ago:
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 4 months ago:
I am glad to have helped you out@angrystego hope you enjoy searxng! Paulgo is an excellent instance choice for first instance.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 4 months ago:
I used to a hater of Kagi but honestly its a damn good alternative search engine. I still prefer a good searXNG instance but if you haven’t try it out. Here’s my simple guide on search engine alternatives
- Comment on The best part is the name 4 months ago:
Dear lord FlyingSquid I could handle the unhinged Trekkie rants but taking a picture of a monitor or TV screen instead of putting in the extra legwork to screencap? You’re not just unhinged, you’re a phoney. A big phat low-effort phoney!
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 4 months ago:
Lol when I read their comment I also thought “Okay Biff Tannen”
