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  • Three is better than none. as long as the community exist and has some kind of activity even one post a month with three comments, you are doing your part to create a viable home for those who share your niche interest. In three months you might get up to 6 people, in 9 months 10, one year later 15. Its difficult going from passive consumer to one of the few active posters but you truly are adding value to the space just by trying.

    Lemmy users like to present lemmy vs reddit usage as all or nothing, its not. Realistically you still use reddit for the niche communities that arent getting much interaction here. I do for locallama and dynavap. But ideally you cross post to the lemmy communities to add content here too so that those like you have a better chance to find a home.


  • You can’t do anything because these excuses are window dressing and not the core of the issue. The core of the issue is that 99% of people are incredibly unwilling to change their habits or spend five minutes to wrap their heads around how things work. If the question of which server to join is too much, this kind of space isn’t for you.

    No, having a full time job or a family is not an excuse to not learn how computers or the internet or networks in general work. You’ve had a lifetime to learn and are willfully ignorant. If you just give up and run away the moment you have to apply two braincells to understand a new concept, your cognition is fucked.

    Im personally fine with basic competence and tech literacy to be a natural gate keeping the unwashed morons out. Lemmy is growing at a fine pace without catering to the lowest common denominators.


  • I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post.

    “Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits or show some backbone. Im sorry for even considering a 12 hour protest, Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter. I don’t miss my old phone app for reddit at all…”

    wipes away a single suppressed tear for the death of boost/sync/whatever and their own lost dignity when spez isn’t looking

    Seriously good on you for being a trendsetter with a basic shred of self respect who knows when to tap out of a bad/abusive situation, Echofox. I wonder just how much more the water needs to be boiled before even the joke characature above gets tired of reddits BS. Maybe never.


  • Its generic slop by anime standards. Like yeah anime is meant for teenagers and young adults so you can’t be too critical over fanservice or flat YA novel Gary sue tier character writing or forgetting to write an actually compelling reason for the villain doing the bad thing at the start by the time the story wraps up. But you can at least try you know?

    Anime in general is not meant to be high art but SAO goes the extra mile to be uninteresting bland slop that appeals to the lowest common denominator. Young nerdy teenage boys dont care because all they want is the hot anime girl harem and flashy epic gamer op superpower eye candy sakuga battles but the older you get the more apparent the poor writing gets.

    The isekai genre has done a lot better over the decade since SAO initially released things like rezero or even Overlord blow it out of the water in terms of actually interesting plot and suspense. The only reason SAO is still popular is the high quality porn.





  • Your primary gaming desktop gpu will be best bet for running models. 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 learn the ropes a little and want some more like better performance or latest models then you can spend some time installing and running kobold.cpp with cublas for nvidia or vulcan for amd to offload layers onto the GPU.

    If you have linux you can boot into CLI environment to save some vram.

    Connect with program using your phone pi or other PC through local IP and open port.

    In theory you can use all your devices in distributed interfacing like exo.


  • 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.

    They both start a local server you can point your phone or other computer on WiFi network to it with local ip address and port forward for access on phone data.



  • 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 full of LLM generated slop now. At this stage of the internet if your gonna consume slop one way or the other it might as well be on your own terms by self hosting an open weights open license LLM that can directly retrieve information from fact databases like wolframalpha, Wikipedia, world factbook, ect through RAG. Its never going to be perfect but its getting better every year.







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    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.