How about if I only use the web version?

Germany is quickly changing.

Thank you for the note. I’m been cursing myself for not being able to provide my devs with something similar (they don’t complain but I know it will make their lives easier). I will start nix from scratch if I learn it but nixops definitely seems like it can help because terraform isn’t that great at the example you provided. Thanks.

focused on security hardening

Could you elaborate?

I am serious. I am a cloud engineer (glorified system admin for cloud + Linux VMs) and I’m still stuck on Ansible + Terraform (stuck isn’t the right word, we are a RHEL and Alpine shop for our VMs and Containers and things work well enough). My friends in bigger companies are using Nix though, but I was always scared of the learning curve. I want to see clear benefits of using nix so I can push myself to actually learn it, which is why I asked. Thanks for the link.

Please tell me more about your work and how you use Nix in it. I’m interested.

Not to be too pedantic but those aren’t alternatives to Android; they’re simply custom Android ROMs as alternatives to stock ROMs.

GrapheneOS is available for the older pixels. If you can get a Pixel 7 or 8 series phone at a good deal then there’s no better Android than GrapheneOS. They take security seriously. I equate GrapheneOS to be the Qubes of the Android world

Have you tried bigger models?

Haha I know

Well I guess if you have a GPU then Ryzen Zen 3 processors are better bang for the buck

That’s great to know. Do you regret not having the performance of Nvidia? I would prefer not to buy green but I’m not sure from the comments about the delta in performance from ROCM vs CUDA

You raise a good point. I think that if an RSS reader could pull from different websites at separate times and either programmatically use the TOR browser /at elast have support for stream isolation along with randomly scheduling when to pull from what website, it should be able to evade most automated measures of surveillance. Timing and correlation attacks are the only ones I can think of other than NSA paying for over 50% if TOR nodes.

I’m not the OP, and yeah I saw that too. Thanks

I see. Thanks

How quantized? I don’t think 16GB of RAM is enough to run a full fat 12B model at FP16 but maybe I’m wrong.

Nvidia cards are just too expensive

How do you not configure the network stack? If you have an Intel NIC on the motherboard/any PCIE lanes in theory it should be able to connect.

What worries me is that someone could perform a reverse shell on my system with/in addition to a magic packet and get full ring 0 access to my system. I’m investigating network monitoring tools that can help me find traces of ME on my network.

The downside is that it probably is a great fingerprint if you go through vpn or tor. But it also could limit your tor/vpn connection time to the shortest time possible.

What do you mean? How is it any less private than on the clearnet?

Because it lets us disable Intel ME

I think Ollama supported ROCM especially with the older AMD cards?

I think pcpartpicker has different options to share with similar formatting that you could paste.

Why did you decide to change the motherboard? Is it because of Intel’s issues with their chips? Wouldn’t that problem be fixed with their microcode patch if you buy now?