I was SHOCKED how well Fedora and Bazzite handled my 5060 after a month of fighting to get it going on pop os.
And Ollama is free and better if you really need AI stuff.
nagaram
joined 2 years ago
Life hack: Move to the other side of the state.
My Comrade in Lenin, I was on Bazzite
I fucking ran out of memory yesterday playing Oblivion Remastered with 5 Firefox tabs open.
32GB ddr4 3600 kit!
I'm fucking upgrading next week!
From what I understand its not as fast as a consumer Nvdia card but but close.
And you can have much more "Vram" because they do unified memory. I think the max is 75% of total system memory goes to the GPU. So a top spec Mac mini M4 Pro with 48GB of Ram would have 32gb dedicated to GPU/NPU tasks for $2000
Compare that to JUST a 5090 32GB for $2000 MSRP and its pretty compelling.
$200 and its the 64GB model with 2x 4090's amounts of Vram.
Its certainly better than the AMD AI experience and its the best price for getting into AI stuff so says nerds with more money and experience than me.
From what I understand its not as fast as a consumer Nvdia card but but close.
And you can have much more "Vram" because they do unified memory. I think the max is 75% of total system memory goes to the GPU. So a top spec Mac mini M4 Pro with 48GB of Ram would have 32gb dedicated to GPU/NPU tasks for $2000
Compare that to JUST a 5090 32GB for $2000 MSRP and its pretty compelling.
$200 and its the 64GB model with 2x 4090's amounts of Vram.
Its certainly better than the AMD AI experience and its the best price for getting into AI stuff so says nerds with more money and experience than me.
Softshell turtle
Honestly if you're not gaming or playing with new hardware, there is absolutely no point.
I've considered swapping this computer over to Fedora for a hot minute, but it really is a gaming PC and I should stop trying to break it.
True, but I have an addiction and that's buying stuff to cope with all the drawbacks of late stage capitalism.
I am but a consumer who must be given reasons to consume.
The Lenovo Thinkcentre M715q were $400 total after upgrades. I fortunately had 3 32 GB kits of ram from my work's e-waste bin but if I had to add those it would probably be $550 ish The rack was $120 from 52pi I bought 2 extra 10in shelves for $25 each the Pi cluster rack was also $50 (shit I thought it was $20. Not worth) Patch Panel was $20 There's a UPS that was $80 And the switch was $80
So in total I spent $800 on this set up
To fully replicate from scratch you would need to spend $160 on raspberry pis and probably $20 on cables
So $1000 theoratically
Gonna write my short story about the orc barbarians who destroy human colonies that get too close to orc territory, not because they're inherently evil, but because they've seen what human greed for power and domination does to subjugated races, the flow of magic, and the health of the earth. So they view humans as evil.
"Your kind knows nothing but exploitation! You drain the lands of their nutrients to feed cities of sycophants until they are fat! Tell me, adventurer, when was the last time you heard of a dragon attacking an orc caravan? We have no fear of such beings as they only attack the depraved greed of man."
"Attacked the village? Do your handlers even lie to hired blades? Yes we burned the village you call Argath, but no one was harmed. Humans, as dangerous as you are, are still cowards. Surrounding a mining village and telling them to leave when they're outnumbered ten to one is hardly, what you would call, a negotiation. We sent hunters to escort them out of the mountains of Gri'ut Kar and burned the village to ensure the trek was one way."
I've been trying to talk my fiance into moving because I found out that one of the guys my high school sweetheart ex cheated on me with frequents my favorite coffee shop.
I'm considering a coastal swap.