exactly that. It’s about personal attachment of sorts. If you don’t feel passionate about it chances of you sticking around are slim. Depending on what your setup is - attempt to expand range of OpenSource tools you use daily, and in the process you may find tools that look great to you but lack function or polish or something else, so that would be the first “dive” and from there it would be easier to expand further

thank you folks. Your input gives me a decent starting point. I’ll start digging based on info/experiences shared, maybe I can find someone locally selling old GPU with enough ram for cheap

well, I intend on scavenging for parts as I can’t really afford today’s prices. And since I don’t really know what should I grab as minimum specs I don’t even know what to look for. I could try to look for old(er) gaming rigs people sell or maybe there are some business workstations that may be sold in bulk. Either way, knowing what’s the minimum viable set of specs for running qwen or claude locally would be helpful

I’ve got some circa 2010 cards laying about with a 32Gb server that already has 8Gb carved out for TrueNAS, so essentially I could squeeze 16-24Gb out of it, but it’s an older i5 Intel CPU

not “if” but “when” but that is of no concern to CxO’s and “market analysts” 😉

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This is irrelevant as CEO’s and shareholders keep screaming “moar AI!”. Engineers know limits of the tool but are forced to ignore those. So yes,LLM is comming for your job but not because it can do it,but because it is perceived to be cheaper.

yes

it actually will take your job… it will crash industries and economies a touch later, when all the knowledge and expertise is lost and we’re left with a choice of rolling back a century or keep living within enshitified society. And not because AI is useless, but because suits and wallstreet are casing exponential profits from the snake oil AI outfits are selling.

there was labour movement that clawed some freedoms and dignity from savage capitalism. Those gains are eroding fast now. Unchecked, capitalism has no inventive for sharing spoils with labour.

is that the same guy claiming that there should be no moderation on Facebook for “true freedom” and who cried his eyes out telling stories of horrible Democracts making him take out deranged individuals off platform? Well…

not just US problem though

…the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost…

like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say “bomb”, “arson”, “nuke” etc. It’s time to use more VPN to generate such a level of white noise where it becomes impractical to track VPN access…

didn’t court recently rule that AI works couldn’t be patented or copyright protected? Meaning if malus.sh is for real anyone using that service should be ironically donating results to public domain, OR anyone leaking produced code to public can’t be held liable. 🤷‍♂️

interesting. thanks for the references.

one of the references

https://blazetrends.com/eu-mandates-android-bootloader-lock-ending-custom-roms-from-august-2025/

EU regulation demanding locked phones and virtually prohibiting jail-brraking etc.

those are the same folks who are virtually killing OSS ecosystem in Android…

that’ll teach me to type in a hurry. I meant df, not du. Lookup man page for options