Opens Windows.

Air escapes. Asphyxiate.

https://youtu.be/RxMR1TMec04

In ECC memory?

I think it’s the first time it’s happened since I upgraded my hardware over a year ago. 64 gigs of RAM and I rarely use more than 30% of it.

Reset button not working, but power button working is quite odd.

Yeah makes me think something hardware level.

Are the server and chargers close to each other? Can you reliably trigger it with the car charger?

No. The car charges every night. This is the first time this has happened.

I used to work for a consultancy that tried to bill themselves as experts in VR/AR. This is back in 2017 or so. We helped a client make a 3D tracking system with VR/AR applications, and this client let us kind of run with it.

Anyway, I was sort of head of this AR/VR thing, and we were always desperate for free advertising, so I somehow got pulled to provide my thoughts on the impact of VR/AR on the grocery store industry for an article in “The Grocer” or some other industry mag.

Leading up to the call, I was trying to think of what I’d say. My thoughts were on building out virtual grocery stores to test customer reactions before building them for real. Bring in some test subjects, see how they plan their route, how they react to different placements of goods. Track their eye movements to see if the new end-cap design is working. Time how long they spend in the store, etc. Are the aisles too narrow and claustrophobic. I got the idea from another client who was using VR to test out new detergent bottle concepts (apparently a one-off of a blow-molded bleach bottle is crazy expensive).

Well my consultancy had been purchased by a multinational conglomerate a year or so prior, so I got a phone call from some C-suite ass who wanted to brief me on what they wanted me to say to the magazine.

His idea was a service where you could have a store employee wear some kind of camera rig so the customer could sit at home in VR and pilot the employee around the store. This would essentially replace curbside pickup, but with the added benefit of “allowing the customer to pick which apple they want out of the bunch.”

I resolved to ignore that advice, but the whole magazine thing ended up falling through anyway. I quit within the year.

Yeah, I haven’t gone since. And I’m not going to not tip because it’s expensive. It’s just that when you’re paying $18 for a cocktail, you don’t exactly expect the bar to turn into a vending machine.

This was also after being told I was “in the wrong line” for the cocktail I wanted to order. And other people were walking in wearing basketball shorts. It was really quite a scene.

It was $18.

I once went to a fancy rooftop bar where I was asked to pay in full (with tip) up front for a cocktail. No idea how that place is still in business.

I like how Misfits and Magic handles this where wizards straight just have never heard of nuclear weapons.

Daredevil’s sensei is Stick. TMNT is Splinter. The baddies in Daredevil are “The Hand,” in TMNT, they’re “The Foot.”

And the radioactive mutigen that mutated the turtles came from the same canister that blinded Murdock.

Are you aware of all the parallels between TMNT and Daredevil?

I’m mostly trying to describe a feeling I don’t hear named very often

That Funny Feeling?

I’ll give that a shot.

I’m running it in docker because it’s running on a headless server with a boatload of other services. Ideally whatever I use will be accessible over the network.

I think at the time I started, not everything supported Intel cards, but it looks like llama-cli has support form Intel GPUs. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

Not to mention, if you try to swallow a potato whole (as one does), you risk choking to death.

Thanks for the link. I was gonna ask if you were a writer, heh.

I agree. The tone of the ads this year felt almost like lampshading. Like if we acknowledge the problem, we’re wise to what the audience is feeling, but we’re not going to do a damn thing to address it. It’s just something that needs to be done to make the ad feel remotely relevant.

AI is scary, but don’t be afraid of our surveillance device because we acknowledged that AI is scary

AI will sell you ads. Anyway, you’re watching an ad for AI

Work sucks amirite? Why not let us unemploy you?

There’s a wealth gap. Spend money on our stuff.

And I’m not going to even link the He Gets Us ads.

Thanks for taking the time.

So I’m not using a CLI. I’ve got the intelanalytics/ipex-llm-inference-cpp-xpu image running and hosting LLMs to be used by a separate open-webui container. I originally set it up with Deepseek-R1:latest per the tutorial to get the results above. This was straight out of the box with no tweaks.

The interface offers some controls settings (below screenshot). Is that what you’re talking about?

Those aren’t for sharpening. They’re for honing the blade. A sharp edge is thin enough to get bent out of shape during normal use, so the honing tip serves to straighten the edge, not sharpen it.

Well, not off to a great start.

To be clear, I think getting an LLM to run locally at all is super cool, but saying “go self hosted” sort of gloms over the fact that getting a local LLM to do anything close to what ChatGPT can do is a very expensive hobby.