Additionally, in windows (linux too?) one could use Moonlight / Sunshine to compute on the GPU and stream to secondary device (either directly, like say to a Chromecast, or via the iGPU to their monitor). Latency is quite small in most circumstances, and allows for some interesting tricks (eg: server GPUs allow you to split GPU into multiple “mini-gpus” - essentially, with the right card, you could host two+ entirely different, concurrent instances of GTA V on one machine, via one physical GPU).

A bit hacky, but it works.

Source: I bought a Tesla P4 for $100 and stuck it in a 1L case.

GPU goes brrr

Instructions unclear. Vending machine now prangent.

How so?

You had me at horded.

You. Had. Me. At. Horded.

Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact?

It warms the cockles of my heart that I renamed my self hosted LLM’s deep thinking mode to Mentats. For shits and giggles, I made it append every “deep thinking” conclusion it makes with [ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!].

It’s the simple things, really.

I like to secretly imagine it stands for SIG SAUER. Bang = process ded

You…I like you. Well done.

My reddit account (the first one) was 12 years old. I nuked it and took a 18 months social media sabbatical. It was nice.

I then set up a second account…that got shadow banned (for the MVNO reasons I outlined above).

Thank you for confirming that my “fuck it, I’ll make my own Reddit. With blackjack and hookers!” plan (aka making your own Lemmy instance) is actually possible.

Please tell me you’re self hosting that on a broken down 2012 laptop, using a $99 GoDaddy domain for the ultimate fuck you asthetic.

How utterly delicious to imagine others spite out-enginering a multi billion dollar company with a box of scraps in a cave, Tony Stank style.

Oh, you want a story? I’ll give you a story.

I was banned for using a MVNO while on holidays. A MVNO (mobile virtual network operator - aka a phone company) often has changing IP endpoints.

I was in Japan (using Rakuten) which has dynamic endpoints in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore. To the reddit bots, that seems like someone stealing or spoofing your account.

Reddit flagged my account and forced password change to confirm identity “for my safety”. I complied. They then silently shadow banned my account after I did so. Like, immediately.

I followed the appeals process (such as it is - basically howling at the moon). I provided logs, GPS co-ords and even details of my flights / boarding passes.

Auto mod basically replied “lol, get fucked”. (Its an auto mod, BTW. Their entire appeal process.Very easy tell).

OK then.

I then used their takeout service to at least grab my old posts, which have some niche technical know how that is worth preserving.

In the course of that, I notice reddit has set up their system in such a way that unknowingly (?) breeches GDPR rules and privacy laws.

Well, well, well…

At this point, I’m stunned at what a cluster fuck reddit really is. Like…wtf?

I then emailed them directly and basically said “listen.I know the laws that govern this. You have 48hrs to email me XYZ or I escalate”

A few days later, Reddit legal emails me saying “hi…we’re not sure what your complaint is. Please clarify”.

So I do - with forensic level detail. Politely. Professionally.

No response.

I send a follow up email a week later saying “look, one way or another this issue needs to be resolved and my complaint answered. I’ll give you 3 days. If its still radio silence, I escalate”.

I fly home yesterday (a full 7 days after the fact). Still radio silence.

Perfect! Today I launch GDPR and OIAC complaint, with full evidence trail, screenshots, logs - the whole works. Takes me 5 minutes.

Will that get me unbanned? Don’t know, don’t care.

Will it cost reddit time and money? Very likely yes.

For those not in the know, breech of GDPR and OIAC laws carry pretty significant penalties for the service provider (to the tune of several million pounds)…and reddit is registered in a EU country. Oops.

The moral of the story (if there is one) is this:

Reddit is rented land. Lemmy is too…but at least with Lemmy, if you really wanted to, you could set up your own instance, with n=1 users and turn off new sign ups, effectively creating a sovereign, unbannable island, where you actually own what you post.

I suppose I should thank Reddit, really. This is the second account in as many years they killed like this, for this very reason.

I was going to set up my own homelab anyway: this just pushed me to do it faster and create a telecoms stack to replace cloud based social media services.

What gals me the most is I spent a fair bit of effort rebuilding my fake internet points over the course of 3 months, to satisfy their “yo, is this a human?” algo…all the while watching bots and stolen accounts spam and flourish.

To add insult to injury: today I received a message from one of the (many many) bots on Reddit offering me a chance to purchase a particular SaaS (?). So apparently I’m still good to be spammed, but other wise I can FOAD?

Fuck you, Reddit.

You owe them nothing - not your knowledge, time or efforts. Let it enshittify.

NPUs yes, TPUs no (or not yet). Rumour has it that Hailo is meant to be releasing a plug in NPU “soon” that accelerates LLM.

They’re holding value remarkably well, sadly lol. By all rights they should be $50 or $60…but I decent ones in the $100+ range…which is about where they start to cross over with Switch OG and Switch lites.

At least the DS lite and DS XL are still reasonably priced. DS lite is an excellent form factor, I think…if only the screen was larger.

Second hand market. I saw a bunch yesterday in Akihabara for the $120-150 USD range…but for the life of me couldn’t find a decent 3DS LL

Just FYI; you can completely erase the pain point of this by using Playnite as front end (in windows) and configuring your emulators (Dolphin, PCSX2 etc) to start full screen WITH controller support started at run time, along with enabling hot key macros for shutting down game and returning to dashboard etc. Playnite has native scripting control.

Its glorious and once set, you’ll never need to use your keyboard for anything (unless you want to).

Arguably better than OG hardware due to shaders, upscaling etc. Dolphin especially is excellent for this (I found Ishiiruka branch a bit better for motion controls but YMMV)

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I agree! Upgraded from a Wii to a Lenovo M93p tiny ($50 USD) so that I could emulate all my old games and play select PC games I loved from back in the day (Just Cause 2, GTA IV, Fallout 3 etc).

Then I went to m710q…which I broke by being a little to hasty swapping CPU :(

(Turned out to be a blessing in disguise… as the next tiny I got - a P330 - got me onto self hosting etc as well as gaming).

TL;DR: yeah, those “mini-micro-tiny” machines are pretty sweet and cheap.

The OG Wii

Reasons -

• Cheap! ($20-$100)
• Fun, physical ways to interact with games (eg: Wii sports, Wiifit) that make casual gaming accessible
• Despite being ancient, homebrew still a thing. See - Minecraft and Beatsabre ports, MK etc
• Easy to mod
• Cross play with select NDS titles (before it was cool)
• Decent sized game library; gems and slop to be fair, but you won’t be bored.
• Pretty good emulation for such old system (16 and 8bit)
• VirtualWare games
• Some really novel titles
• No region lock
• Built like a tank. You can completely bypass failing disc drive with SD or USB.
• USBLoader GX (free) + Autoutlet HDMI out ($20) = you won’t believe how good 480p can look when tuned (eg: Xenoblade, SMS, SMG etc)
• Apart from the red one, they’re all basically GameCube compatible (either directly or via Nintendont) at hardware level. That’s an amazing library of games on its own.
• Instant on; no DRM shit
• Tiny, quiet, cute.

And all that for $20.

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