I don’t think these data centers really are for LLMs. Right now, I can go to a dozen websites and use some LLM, without sitting on a wait list, for exactly $0.00 out of my pocket. So there’s obviously enough processing power to meet demand as-is, but… What? Demand will skyrocket when they crank up the fees? OpenAI operated around ~$18 billion in deficit last year, is everyone really gonna pay $200 - $600 per month for this? Plus, LLMs are reaching a plateau, more data doesn’t equal a more coherent model, they’re running into a dead end.

My local data center is steamrolling over public opinion. We’re not allowed to ask who will own it, how much power it will consume, nothing. “Officially,” the installation has stalled, but they’re still bulldozing the trees to make the lot where its supposed to go.

My personal conspiracy theory is that this is coming from Palantir, laundering resources through the tech companies, using DoD money. The data centers aren’t for LLMs, but to build out a massive dragnet to track civilian travel, who goes where and when, to be used by DHS. That explains why they need to be distributed geographically per capita, the extreme secrecy around them, and the way utility companies and local politicians keep bending over despite public outcry.

They pull that shit outta the dirt, man, that’s disgusting.

Y’all doin god’s work. Archive saved my ass a couple months ago, had to run Win7 in a VM for legacy software, had to pass a USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter into it. Pulled a generic USB 3.0 driver for Win7 from archive.org, last place on earth to grab it.

“A straight line is the edge of a circle with an infinite radius” type energy

Would appear to be so…

JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.

NOW THEY AIN’T GON COME BACK.

Gonna start naming my contacts by military operations instead of nicknames

“Hmm… I’m good with statistics, scripting, and I have some extra cash on hand…”

“I can just mix all these into the cauldron, stir it up a lil bit, aaand…”

“oh my god it’s gone. it’s all gone. i owe money now…”

It’s got something to do with max fund preallocation / preauthorization. This is normal for gas stations, supposedly it keeps card thieves from armada fueling and leaving the station holding a grand of irrecoverable debt. Some banks won’t show these background transactions, some only show one dollar, some show the full amount. The exact specifics you’re shown vary between banks and stations, but it is normal and happens all the time.

KeePass and syncthing. I use Keepass2 on a Linux desktop and laptop, KeePassDX on Android, and use syncthing to keep everything synchronized and up to date, also using an old raspberry pi to act as a central server for syncthing.

Modifying the database on one device seamlessly updates the other devices once they’re visible on the network, everything works beautifully and is very easy to set up on a local network.

Pretty much default configuration all the way around, just gotta make sure syncthing starts on boot. Just did a brief search, syncthing seems to have a MacOS fork, and iOS will need Möbius Sync, which is paid but the free tier offers 20MB storage sync which is overkill for KeePass.