Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

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  • The biggest perk for me for a dedicated NAS is redundancy and hot swap ability.

    It is inevitable that a few of your spinning disks will die and need to be replaced, a proper dedicated NAS box will let you pop out and swap that drive and then the NAS software will rebuild the array for you with no data loss.

    Obviously you can do most all of this with a normal desktop, but it’s generally easier with the right hardware.

    I custom built mine running Truenas which was way cheaper then a dedicated NAS, but also I’m an IT turbo nerd so I wanted to do the whole thing myself.







  • I ultimately agree with a lot of communism and as such I’m probably more likely to agree with the average Tankie than most people.

    And with that disclaimer, yeah kinda it has aided them in doing that.

    They created a reddit alternative that has a “default server” as it were. And they have the ability to admin that source of information to tailor to their specific ideological needs.

    But is it effective in a grander scheme? That’s pretty debatable.


  • I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

    Are you using LLMs as search engines?

    Bold.

    I use Gemma, LLama 3.2, and Deepseek to either fix formatting, summarize documentation to give me commands for Linux software, and write simple code structure for me to refine into working code.

    Sure it takes longer to generate than a cloud compute would, but

    1. privacy obviously. I know you dismissed it but that’s really the biggest reason anyone will have.

    2. this feels better environmentally. I actually don’t know if that’s true, but it objectively touches less computers for such simple tasks. It would be wasteful of infrastructure to do it over the web.

    3. it’s just cooler to have a conversation with my computer. I’ve learned a lot about how the whole process works and that’s more valuable to me as a non dev than just getting the end results.







  • Its how you can tell PDP fans weren’t paying attention. He promoted it a few times but it didn’t gain any traction and he abandoned it.

    Or maybe it just didn’t help with the fascism allegations from the bridge moment and the Fiverr incidents since those all happened about the same time.

    Hell, he had Ben Shapiro host an episode of LWIAY. Sure it wasn’t peak genocide apologizer we have now Benny Boy, but he was still a verifiable dick head grifter.