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    Is Adobe worth it anymore?

    I dislike Adobe and all the crap that runs in the background but if I’m doing any decent amount of editing I know the software and the time I save is worth it to me over using the alternatives re: photo editors. However I don’t do much now and am more than happy with Krita to do most of the work...
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    What LLM/Model you using?

    What software are y’all using with your LLMs? I’ve been having a hard time trusting even many of the open source projects since I’ve seen one with opt-out telemetry and stuff built in (don’t remember the name, it was months ago and I noped outta there) and I just don’t trust an LLM to make...
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    What LLM/Model you using?

    Qwen for the win. :) 3.8 is great. :p I setup a little MCP server so it could address my lights with rgb matrices. 3.6 was awesome and could set them to what I want. With 3.8 and a little python and opengl esque scripting language or a keyframe path for animation, now I can ask “make my ceiling...
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    Storage Prices

    Welp I didn’t listen and got some rust. :p Managed to score 26x8TB and 8x4TB Dell Exos 7E8 SAS drives for a (still relatively un)reasonable amount of money, but good in this market. Now we’re talking. :) I’m unsure if I should resell them and maybe go with some larger drives with a lower energy...
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    Looking for Mini-PC for retro gaming

    Something to note is if you ever want to hook up to old CRT TVs. The best but is getting an old radeon card like an HD 6450 which you can run alongside even an Nvidia GPU just for the VGA output using crtemudriver for the windows side or some custom mode lines on linux. The remasters are...
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    Carbide ice nanotube pads

    I would rather replace my paste every few years than risk exposing myself to carbon nanotubes. When I saw a video of a heatsink being dismounted I saw a large amount not coming up with the adhesive and having to be manually wiped off… The health ramifications for consumers and the manufacturers...
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    Haptic Transducers

    Hey, I just wanted to put this somewhere permanent. I’ve tried a number of haptic transducers lately trying to figure out how I can implement tactile haptics into future projects, and into games. I’ve tried the: Dayton BST-1 Dayton BST-300EX ButtKicker Advance ButtKicker LFE I’ve heard...
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    Just an LLM with flesh.

    Just an LLM with flesh.
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    What LLM/Model you using?

    I just got my 5090 and have been a teeny bit overwhelmed with the models. Tried probably 20 of them. Mainly for programming (generating code), but also a lot for generating structured outputs for my programs. As for the ones that fit I like qwen 3.6 the best I think, followed by gemma 4 if I...
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    Storage Prices

    Pretty fair find. Building you might be able to get better quality parts for the price but maybe not with today’s prices that’d have to be parted out. Right now I’m at 96GB (2x48gb) ddr5 6000c32 with a 9950X3D. It’s a beast. I still can find lots of ways to wait on it though. ;) Manage to fill...
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    Storage Prices

    Yup. :( I’m buying as much as I can now, I just don’t know how to spread out the buying. Torn between storage, ram, and vram.
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    Storage Prices

    I just heard about this a month or two ago and had never really heard it before, great to know since I used to think of them as pretty good for offline storage. Is a power cycle even once every year or two (or 5 😂) enough to keep them kicking?
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    Storage Prices

    I haven’t gotten the camera yet (probably the farthest out tech purchase since it’s pricey and there’s other more volatile stuff I’d like to purchase first) but I think regardless of what I fer I’ll run through it pretty fast. I’m starting to take lots of videos and those take up space, the llms...
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    2x 5090

    I’ve been happy with my HX1500i too. It was powering a 5070 ti and 9950X3D without ever kicking on the fan for the a year, even under sustained inference or benchmarking. With my 5090 now maybe it might but I haven’t noticed it over the card at least. Pretty bulky though. Definitely glad I went...
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    Storage Prices

    Hi. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here. I really miss [H]ardNews. I guess it’d be pretty depressing today anyways. Uh, I am wanting to get into photography and videography when I have the money to spend on a nice camera, but that comes with the cost of lots of disk usage. The current...
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