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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • At least check what the conflict is about…

    While I personally don’t like the BJP and they are at fault to some extent, this conflict has nothing to do with Hindu nationalists. This is about ethnic groups, people from different religions can belong to same ethnic group.

    There had been rising tension between the two communities for the past few years, which sparked into a full grown conflict when the High Court of the state ordered the state government to make a decision regarding the reservation status of the majority community.

    The state government didn’t end up making a decision in the given timeframe, but both communities were up in arms about it, the majority community in favour and the minority community against it, this resulted in small skirmishes followed by a full on conflict.






  • You go to install the debian live install on another usb and point installation to the desired usb? I think that should do it and you will have a persistent debian install.

    If you are planning to use this for the long term there maybe a few better options, because the usb will die very quickly if you use it to run your os.

    • Use an external ssd, you can get a case for m.2 ssd use that with a m.2 ssd. They are the most compact after a usb drive.

    • Use external HDD, while slower it’s also an option.

    • WSL? This is something.

    • Assuming by drivers you mean drive, backup all data on your drive, format drive, ensure drive no longer encrypted, install windows and Linux.


  • I have used it mainly for dreambooth, textual inversion and hypernetworks, just using it for stable diffusion. For models i have used the base stable diffusion models, waifu diffusion, dreamshaper, Anything v3 and a few others.

    The 0.79 USD is charged only for the time you use it, if you turn off the container you are charged for storage only. So, it is not run 24/7, only when you use it. Also, have you seen the price of those GPUs? That 568$/month is a bargain if the GPU won’t be in continuous use for a period of years.

    Another important distinction is that LLMs are a whole different beast, running them even when renting isn’t justifiable unless you have a large number of paying users. For the really good versions of LLM with large number of parameters you need a lot of things than just a good GPU, you need at least 10 of the NVIDIA A100 80GB (Meta’s needs 16 https://blog.apnic.net/2023/08/10/large-language-models-the-hardware-connection/) running for the model to work. This is where the price to pirate and run yourself cannot be justified. It would be cheaper to pay for a closed LLM than to run a pirated instance.




  • Why not build a new PC or buy an old pc? One with ryzen 5 5600G, 8gb Ram, 250GB ssd should cost ~250USD whether you buy new/old, i recently checked the prices, cause I needed one and they were similar. This should take you a long way. As for storage just pick a case with enough ssd/harddisk slots.

    You can also go much cheaper depending on what you get.

    The advantage is you can add a GPU like the intel A380 for av1 encoding of video if you feel like you need it.

    For OS depending on what you are doing there are a few choices:

    • True nas: mid difficulty
    • debian: i just use this with docker, does the job
    • alma linux/Rocky linux
    • ubuntu
    • yunohost: if you would be interested in hosting activitypub apps, easy
    • casaos: easy

  • Hot take: it doesn’t feel nice to have a change forced.

    It should be the personal preference of the user to decide whether to use native or snap/flatpak. If native package manager decide to not support the package any longer it would be better to make user aware and stop maintaining app, than to install a snap package. This is a user’s decision.

    Also this can have far reaching consequences. Imagine you cannot use/install snaps on your machine due some reason, what now?



  • I had a question about email.

    I am currentl, routing(Cloudflare Email Routing) my email to a Yahoo mail account, basically all incoming email gets routed to my yahoo, and from Yahoo I can send email with my custom address as the sender address.

    As far as I am aware I have a daily limit of 200 emails and 1tb storage, all this for free.

    Would such a service not be better for your purpose too? Are there certain advantages to paying for an email provider?