>>2510
I'm getting in 4x48GB of RAM later this evening. I'll update with my results, but for now I can answer a few things:

>My choice of RAM is 2x32 or 2x48
I currently have 2x32GB with a 4090 and DeepSeek R1 671b-UD-IQ1_S ran at ~1 token/s (>>2445).

>with a $100 premium on the 48
If you're not too worried about the speed, these are the kits I'm ordering:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D286TQHV
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2888BLV

>Do you need like 200gb across GPU and RAM to load the great model?
It depends what you mean by "the great model". For the higher quantizations you only need ~88GB total between RAM and VRAM, if using llama.cpp. If you want to use Ollama, you need to merge the weights into a single file and then you need RAM + VRAM to be quite a bit more than the filesize of the model (>>2433). For lower quantizations, you need a lot more memory, and if you want to run the giant unquantized model, you need like >1TB of RAM.

I'll be trying 2x48GB and 4x48GB and seeing how much of a difference (if at all) they make towards generation speed. I kind of have a feeling that maybe when I was running DeepSeek R1 before, it was probably going out to a pagefile on my SSD since I had like 500MB of RAM leftover while running it.

>>2515
Maybe?... The people who made the quantized version of DeepSeek R1 provided an example in their blogpost showing that their highest quantized version was still capable of creating a flappy bird style game from scratch (>>2417).

>>2519
I ended up ordering a 2x48 thing, but I feel immensely ripped off by it. This is the computer I'm going to be using for the next 4 or so years so I justified the price premium to myself since I don't buy things like real clothes. The whole reason I'm doing the RAM thing is for local text gen so I'm eager to hear of your progress in it. (saw in IRC that you're having issues though...)

>It depends what you mean by "the great model".
The famous one that is a little bit below GTP4o or whatever. My assumption is that I can't run that one, but maybe the one under it? Slow 1 token/s generation is rough, but part of the appeal of all this VRAM and RAM stuff is multitasking.

The API is still fucked huh? I assume results are slightly worse than usual because of the DDoSing or whatever

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-share-some-ai-model-code-doubling-down-open-source-2025-02-21/
They say they're going to open source the code too this week.

I can't think of anywhere else to post this, but I finally found a blender script for retopology that clicks with me. It really takes the headache out of thinking of ways to patch holes while meeting the vert requirements. Manual touchups are still needed here or there and you really do need to know how to plan out topology, but this is making retopologizing a lot less painful for me. (It's kind of crazy it made a knee joint layout by chance) It feels closer to a creative process since you're drawing lines and letting the calculations be done by the script. If only AI stuff was actually going in this direction.

Anyway, it's called Easy Patch 2 and I actually spent the $15 to buy it just because I hate this whole process so much.

Here are some essential programs i have saved in a notepad for redownloading purposes.
>exactaudiocopy
I used it once for ripping a cd and it worked great.
>icaros
I dont know whats wrong with windows but multiple times when reinstalling my pc i would have issues with thumbnails. It just didnt work on most files and would sometimes lag when loading it all. Icaros did fix that very annoying problem but caused another. The thumbnails werent the same as usual so you would need to tinker it to your liking. Still a good alternative if your windows thumbnails are fucked.
>keepass
One of those password managers. Nothing more to say
>mediainfo
I usually use this to check bitrate of videos or music. It basically shows you every piece of information of a video file. Its pretty useful when you torrent something to verify that the file matches whatever it said and for making your own torrents and copy and pasting the information seen there. Im not sure about music files though. I can see bitrate of music files but i havent really checked beyond that.
>sumatrapdf
A pdf reader that works. I throw a epub or a pdf at it and it works. Doesnt feel like bloatware at all like what i would expect of a pdf reader.
>goldberg emulator
A steam emulator that is useful for when people share steam game folders. Does not work for games with DRM.
>ruffle
A swf flash player. I've only used it a couple of times but it seems to work well enough.
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>revo uninstaller
This is good if you somehow installed a kuso program that wont go away.
>rufus
This is very good for formatting usbs and hard drive. I use this to format my big hard drives to fat32 for use with the wii for example.
>wii backup manager
Just a simple thing to use to transfer games to your hard drive. You can do it manually but i prefer it this way.
>dban
Must have hdd wipe tool. Always use this on a hdd if you're going to sell it/throw it away. Do not use on a ssd.
>subtitle edit
I dont really make my own subtitles. I find it useful for the batch convert option it has. Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs, hi meaning hearing impaired. These subs are really annoying because sound effects are shown in the subs or the name of the person speaking is also shown in the subs which can cause spoiler issues. Its just annoying because i only want subs. Im not fucking deaf. So what i do is just download the subs and then use the batch convert option and then tick the option to remove the hearing impaired parts from the subs.
>xdvdmulleter
Old software for creating hdd ready folders from iso rips of original xbox games. I find it pretty useful but newer software might do it better.
>fatxplorer
For formatting hard drives for use with the original xbox. I've also used it for unlocking a few drives. Sometimes its just simpler than using something like the chimp app on your softmodded xbox. I just dont want to do the whole process again. If you've nulled your eeprom on the xbox then you can just lock the new hard drive with your current drives eeprom. Then you can copy every of the old drives folders to the new one one by one. Its a good program.
>chocolate doom
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>>2538
>Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs
With the correct regex you can remove all these bracketed SDH.
MPV and MPV-based video players has some functions function for this.
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-sub-filter-sdh
If you set this up it should save you the hassle.

>>2539
Oh cool. I will test that out later.

Geh... Tarrifs on german import

dumb dutard

got my lenses. it just seems way more comfortable

peak lazy

I like this mouse, but I absolutely loathe it. Nice feel, weight, the all important side buttons, but the scroll wheel is the cheapest piece of shit that starts failing after a month of use. Once it starts jumping it only gets worse from there until it stops working altogether.

ts has been engaging in self-deprecating humor on xitter as a form of advertising

Ahem. kissu is a proud ventrilo site.
I can't imagine anything being a discord killer, it's just too big. Specialization is what's needed, and I don't think privacy is enough on its own. It's kind of the problem of discord in that it tries to be everything, as true of most tech companies these days.

I assume anyone strongly against Discord simply never migrated over from IRC in the first place. Discord has been around about a decade now, anyone who has been using it begrudgingly all that time can't actually mind it that much.

People don't just switch what they've been using daily, simple as that. I still have a Facebook Messenger because my family wont(cant) switch to anything else.
>privacy
Has there been any discord server of the piracy kind being raided/banned? I don't know of any incentive from discords side to move to teamspeak.

>>2530
I'm pretty sure Discord deleted a few Switch freeshop and emulator servers when Nintendo got bloodthirsty a while back.

Wait a minute... 512 is even more than SHA256... How long would it take a bitcoin miner to crack that...

what are you trying to get me to do here? There's no way I can get some sort of pattern out of a salted hash.

>>2517
If you do though, you'll become a billionaire.

Thank you for the replies. I am happy to see that the program is working. In case you were curious, The answer is
QAXM-GVTG-EAOK-NKOK-DJES-JKPG
Have a nice day.

>>2521
/maho/ just got played in some way and we shall never know

There's a table for comparing MHZ and cas latency. There was some other things about the number of chips on them or something.idk.
For boards... I think transfer speed is pretty fixed and it's down to stuff like ddr and pcie versions. And picking the best of a few brands..

CPU SECURED! (I hope)
If somehow anyone else has been refreshing sites hoping to get the 9800X3D, it's on amazon! And it's directly available from amazon instead of mysterious chinese shops created days earlier.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFMSMYK

Saw this on /v/, so a /v/ post about a reddit post about a twitter post.
I think I can trust it. "Bap" is in the name

I'm going to turn this into 'assembling a new computer' blog.
The CPU arrived.

>>2512
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rtx-5090-supplies-to-be-stupidly-high-next-month-as-gb200-wafers-get-repurposed-asserts-leaker
Seems like it's taken seriously enough to appear on some hardware news sites. So, 5090 next month before economic uncertainty.

Looks like it has seen years of solid use.

those must be some rude letters to require censoring

best keyboard

Every time it feels like whenever I let the AI go and do its own thing it always pulls some bullshit. This time the MC found a pot of magic liquid and drank it, but instead of something normal happening, what I got was a long genderbending sequence where it was described in great detail how he turned into a girl and his despair through the experience. Or in other times where it starts getting into a nice groove on a femdom sex scene and it reveals that instead of nice puffy vulva under her pantsu it's a massive futa cock.
I can't not try the roulette wheel of AI generation because that's the point of AI, but it gives me curve balls when I least expect it and kills my erection.

>>2450
>femdom sex scene and it reveals that instead of nice puffy vulva under her pantsu it's a massive futa cock.
this says a lot about society

>>2450
>what I got was a long genderbending sequence where it was described in great detail how he turned into a girl and his despair through the experience
How the fuck do I always go for this kind of corruption sequence and instead am always rushed through the juicy details I want?

what massive futa cock says about society and what it means and why it's a GOOD thing

>>2452
Typically the way I solve pacing is by adjusting how prose heavy the story is. I guess you could 'quantify' it by saying it's how far the plot moves per paragraph of text. If you get scenes crawling by with dozens of paragraphs then you're not short of juicy details. Since AI likes having context you'll need to do some handholding before you get to the part you want 'quality' in, so leading up to the scene you get into the minutiae of how your characters act, what they're doing, the little motions they make, their internal monologue, and so on like a play by play. Having a thesaurus on hand helps a lot as quality word choice in descriptions and adjectives can trick the AI into thinking it's writing a novel instead of wattpad fanfiction, in addition to just being easier to imagine.

An example to illustrate the point.
A rushed scene:
"Aurora ran down the hill and beheaded the bandit with a swing of her sword."
A slowed scene:
"Aurora overlooked the grisly scene and spotted her prey among the cart's wreckage. After drawing a deep breath she stormed down the slope with her blade held high. Her fearsome warcry took the raider by surprise, and with nary a moment to react, his head flew skyward in a graceful arc. One deft slice was all it took to send his world tumbling end over end."

They both tell you the same thing, but the latter tells it much more detail and it implicitly tells you about the character and her qualities.
You can get so purple with your prose it describes everything to an obsessive degree like Lovecraft's works, and depending personal taste that's what you're looking for, but it's also just as easy to overdo it to exasperation. It just takes some practice to finetune.

>>2154
I let my dad trick me into getting some $100 dollar "running shoes" because he believed they'd be better for my feet and they fell apart within a year or two, so I'm hesitant to spend anything beyond the bare minimum on shoes now.

>>2157
well this advice obviously applies to things that aren't manufactured as "made in <your country>" when really they're cardboard crap assembled in China then sent over to be boxed up by locals before being put on the market to trick unsuspecting customers.

I recently had to stop buying boots from a company I've bought from for years because they're now selling $50 quality boots at $300+ coasting by on a reputation the company had built up for over 100 years before being bought out by a new parent company a few years ago.

Man, I need a 3090. I wonder if people will throw some up on ebay or something when the 50xx series is revealed in January for what will surely be a ludicrous price. I'm not sure how many people would be jumping from 30xx to 50xx, though, but it's probably not many. The prices are just so damn absurd, and the 5080 will only have 16GB of VRAM and will probably be like $1700.
Come to think of it, if I get a 3090 doesn't that mean I could have my 3080 and 3090 in it together for 36GB of VRAM? I should look that up, but I'm sure I'd need a new motherboard.

>>2075
Any reason to get 2 M2 SSDs, or is the one good enough?

>>2449
Depends on the OS. I know the default QNAP OS, I believe unRAID, have tiered storage, so more frequently used files will be moved -- not copied -- from the hard drives to the SSDs. In that case, you would probably want two and set them to RAID1, so if one dies, you don't lose files that got moved to the SSDs. If you use TrueNAS, there's not really much benefit other than extra redundancy. TrueNAS doesn't have tiered storage. Instead, it tries to put files into RAM (ARC), and files that don't fit in RAM can go to the SSDs temporarily before being written to disk (L2ARC); these can be removed from a pool, or die without data loss, but their benefit is subjective.

If you want, you could also just install an OS to an M.2 drive instead of using USB.

wow.. that's so weird... in his 1.0 version he's directly calling the windows API to generate windows. I have no idea how this sort of thing even works... I guess this is how C# does it's UI builder or something...

What does taiga have that trackma doesn't?
https://github.com/z411/trackma

>>2434
Uh, hm. I'm not sure actually. Didn't really know of its existence, but it tracks manga/vns as well? That's pretty neat.

>>2434
>trackma
trackma nuts

>>2420
>Win 11 or the subscription-based 12 in the future.
omfg what

>>2213
It's good because it's novel

>>2213
People are dumb and easy to take advantage of. I'd be a multi-millionaire if I didn't have good morals. The internet is designed now so that these people rise to the top. It's why youtube is filled with dumb people making thousands a week stealing content from people that actually put in effort and know what they're doing.

In the last year alone I've have multiple aspiring vtubers take content I released for free and shit all over it. All because they're trying to get sponsored by Funimation/CR. So they take something we worked hard on and lie about it. Last time they took something with multiple TL notes and subtitles at the top of the screen and hid them. Then presented the subtitles at the bottom of the screen in such a way that they somehow made the offical (wrong) translation look better. In that particular scene we provided two translations. One that attempted to maintain the joke being made and another literal translation. Maybe we could have handled it better. But the one that retained the joke was kind of iffy and it was really hard to do that joke in English. So we put it at the top of the screen and a literal translation at the bottom.

In another scene they either lied or made a common mistake. Obviously they don't know Japanese. But they used it as a way to claim the CR TL was better. Since whoever did it didn't understand Japanese either.

This kind of thing isn't just limited to people trying to make youtube money either. We've had multiple people try to shut us down on places like nyaa. If you dig into who's running the place now you discover the same thing: It's all CR or former CR employees. That's why they push official translations and rips so hard these days. They're the same ones that ddos'd all the anon nyaa clones as well (after they stole the code anon provided for free to run their own).

It's a really horrible situation now on the internet. People that actually do good work are shut out of everywhere with gatekeeping. Any attempt to start up a place outside of these people's control get ddos'd into oblivion and if that fails they email your hosting provider or domain provider and shut you down that way. They steal your work, claim it as their own and then get donations from clueless people that praise them for their "hard work". These people using AI are just the same thing happening with art.
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>>2219
Thank you for your hard work.

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B

Anyone tried this yet?

>>2333
These models don't matter to me until someone trains it on booru stuff to make it palatable. There's like 50 different real life models around and I can't care enough to compare them. "Oh, that one does apples on tables better than the other one which is better at mountains."

>>16
Blogs are probably the 'old web' thing to have survived the longest, still being relatively mainstream to this day, especially among more bookish crowds. I think a lot of it comes down to their standalone nature and emphasis on individual opinion. It's a format that lends itself well to being linked on social media sites like Reddit.

joelonsoftware
codinghorror
krebsonsecurity
handprint
jwz
qntm

sorry for not linking, my post gets flagged as spam otherwise

>>2330
It would be the last two that trigger it. It's extremely rare for short URLs (URL shorteners) to be legit and not spam so kissu blocks them.

still missing old man murray sigh

You'd do it with your smart phone. Have a vendor with w pub key as a qr code and you'd have someone scan it and then they authorize the app to send to it. I think the major exchanges have these sorts of things already.

The problem is verification is slow.

Ignoring the fact that crypto is highly violate and not at all usable as an actual medium of exchange for everyday goods because of that fact... Crypto transactions are just really slow. When you go to a store and use your credit card or debit card, those transactions are real-time, and were verified by some mainframe that's sole job is to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, from hundreds of thousands of banks and individual retailers, all while also providing suspicious transaction monitoring in that 3-5 second timeframe it takes for the card reader to say "Approved".

Blockchain transactions can take literal hours to verify, which for a vendor, you can understand would be completely unworkable. That's not to mention with cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, there are additional fees to merely have transactions be processed, which for low amount transactions could be equal to the initial purchase price itself. Suddenly a $1.29 pack of gum actually costs you $2 because of network fees -- scaled across any number of daily transactions...

These issues are why there are crypto exchanges -- cryptocurrency as a decentralized blockchain with third-party verification makes it incredibly useless in reality -- crypto exchanges act as a third-party with liquidity to side-step blockchain verification and instantly deposit the amount transacted into the wallet of other exchange members. And, naturally, on top of whatever transaction fees the cryptocurrency itself might impose, there are then also fees that the exchanges impose for their their services. Which, if you put any thought into for more than a few seconds, you will realize completely negates any of the supposed virtues of cryptocurrencies; Chain of trust? Nope, you're transacting between ephemeral virtual wallets. Decentralized ownership? Nope, all your funds exist with the pseudo-bank that is the exchange -- you do not control your wallet. Insulation from market volatility vis-a-vis the '08 financial crisis? Obviously, laughably not, crypto is extremely volatile and value is more or less directly tied to stock market performance.

If you want to use crypto for day-to-day usage, there are a million disincentives, and many more reasons to just use a debit card or credit card. To my knowledge, the only places that have seen any modicum of crypto uptake for daily usage, are countries that have such unstable currencies that the volatility of crypto isn't as bad in compariPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm stupid, so for other stupid people like me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale

>>2324
I forgot to mention one last big issue. I touched on it by describing cryptocurrencies volatility, but forgot to go into more detail. That being: convertibility. I think this comes as something of an oversight when discussing cryptocurrency, given it's nature, but when it comes to currencies and the acceptance of foreign currency for international exchanges there is ZERO question that you can reliably use a credit or debit card in any country or when making online purchases. Occasionally there are fees imposed, particularly with in-person transactions, or with ATM foreign currency exchanges, but often international purchases have no additional fees. Again, this may come as something of an oversight, but when it comes to the ability to use an ATM, even in other countries, it's a mostly painless process to get local physical currency. ATMs are extremely numerous, and especially at international travel destinations, and airports, physical foreign currency exchanges are also very common.

This comes in contrast to cryptocurrencies because the medium is the asset. Whether it's converting between USD and CNY, or CAD and JPY, or EUR and SEK, or CHF to WON, etc. there's very little volatility in exchanges rates because on-balance, currency exchange rates are determined by international trade expenditures and revenue, foreign currency reserves, and above-all exchange rate to the US Dollar as the world reserve currency. Generally speaking, the biggest source of volatility in exchange rates tends to be as a result of domestic inflation; ergo, if your country's currency has inflation, your currency will be weaker in relation to other currencies, and thus the price of foreign goods will become more expensive, however, if you have an export-oriented economy this devaluation can make the price of domestic goods artificially cheaper for foreign buyers. So, to give an example, if Brazil has high inflation, importing foreign goods may become more expensive, but for other countries the price of agricultural products out of Brazil, such as soy beans, will decrease relative to their previous price. In the long run, these trends are generally self-stabilizing absent dramatic economic intervention by governments so that prices and exchange rates remain relatively stable. This is largely why Neoliberal economists advocate for free tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2302
Yeah but now I just want to do it for fun

Well... If you do it, you should see if you can launch your scam coin on Coinbase somehow. Every now and then they do "learn and earn" things where, for completing simple quizzes about the coin, they'll give people some of that coin for free. Could give temporary liquidity and convince retards to buy it and then you can rug pull and cash out.

>>2304
>launch your scam coin on Coinbase
Exchanges are pay to play. It costs millions.

or at least a market cap of a million. the initial holders have to put in a lot of initial money to make it seem like a real hype coin.

Idk how to make a shitcoin, but that sounds very similar to crash gambling

>>2263
if you're brave enough to walk around with your laptop in your hands while playing a game, why not lmao

There must be something we're missing. It's such an oversight that it must be more sturdy than expected... somehow. Or maybe it's uhh... actually I don't know.
I hope it's backwards compatible with switch and someone is able to crack it. Oh, and somehow Nintendo stops allowing the mountains of shovelware released to its digital store every day.

>>2265
>it's backwards compatible with switch
It is *with exceptions.

>crack it
Probably, the rumors that Nintendo has been on a suing spree shutting all the Switch stuff down lately because the Switch 2 will be super similar are looking true right now. If this really is just a Switch with a bigger screen and better resolution/fps, then they're competing directly with emulators.

>>2263
>handheld
>hand
>held
Think about this for a bit

i am