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True, but I have an addiction and that's buying stuff to cope with all the drawbacks of late stage capitalism.

I am but a consumer who must be given reasons to consume.

The Lenovo Thinkcentre M715q were $400 total after upgrades. I fortunately had 3 32 GB kits of ram from my work's e-waste bin but if I had to add those it would probably be $550 ish The rack was $120 from 52pi I bought 2 extra 10in shelves for $25 each the Pi cluster rack was also $50 (shit I thought it was $20. Not worth) Patch Panel was $20 There's a UPS that was $80 And the switch was $80

So in total I spent $800 on this set up

To fully replicate from scratch you would need to spend $160 on raspberry pis and probably $20 on cables

So $1000 theoratically

Gonna write my short story about the orc barbarians who destroy human colonies that get too close to orc territory, not because they're inherently evil, but because they've seen what human greed for power and domination does to subjugated races, the flow of magic, and the health of the earth. So they view humans as evil.

"Your kind knows nothing but exploitation! You drain the lands of their nutrients to feed cities of sycophants until they are fat! Tell me, adventurer, when was the last time you heard of a dragon attacking an orc caravan? We have no fear of such beings as they only attack the depraved greed of man."

"Attacked the village? Do your handlers even lie to hired blades? Yes we burned the village you call Argath, but no one was harmed. Humans, as dangerous as you are, are still cowards. Surrounding a mining village and telling them to leave when they're outnumbered ten to one is hardly, what you would call, a negotiation. We sent hunters to escort them out of the mountains of Gri'ut Kar and burned the village to ensure the trek was one way."

The PIs were honestly because I had them.

I think I'd rather use them for something else like robotics or a Birdnet pi.

But the pi rack was like $20 and hilarious.

The objectively correct answer for more compute is more mini PCs though. And I'm really thinking about the Mac Mini option for AI.

I've only seen the episode with Toby Turner in it and it has made me a worse person.

The trick is to talk to real actual human beings and not people terminally online enough to know about Lemmy.

Find a lefty book club and you'll find reasonable people.

My favorite lefty take to hit a capitalism/libertarian shill with is that I don't really think a communist/socialist project like the Soviet Union is the future. And honestly, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who does want that.

Its becoming a pretty common take these days that capitalism is fine IF human and environmental needs are met first.

Ollama and all that runs on it its just the firewall rules and opening it up to my network that's the issue.

I cannot get ufw, iptables, or anything like that running on it. So I usually just ssh into the PC and do a CLI only interaction. Which is mostly fine.

I want to use OpenWebUI so I can feed it notes and books as context, but I need the API which isn't open on my network.

The put some damn fan service into Law and Order: SVU and I might start watching!

Am I right fellas!?

I was thinking about that now that I have Mac Minis on the mind. I might even just set a mac mini on top next to the modem.

Ollama + Gemma/Deepseek is a great start. I have only ran AI on my AMD 6600XT and that wasn't great and everything that I know is that AMD is fine for gaming AI tasks these days and not really LLM or Gen AI tasks.

A RTX 3060 12gb is the easiest and best self hosted option in my opinion. New for >$300 and used even less. However, I was running with a Geforce 1660 ti for a while and thats >$100

A mac is a very funny and objectively correct option