cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50893918
Back then I used to think this was just a funny meme.
It's reality now.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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You people are buying proper homeservers? I thought everyone just used old desktop PCs and single board computers.
serial experiments lain?
I need to rewatch this now that Im older. Maybe I’ll finally understand more..
My thought as well
Don't care about Linux, but I love Lain.
I <3 CoplandOS
We all know that becoming an obsessive nerd on the Wired turns you in to God. Or a lot of us seem to believe it has, at least. :D
Needs penguin teddy in window in second panel
Access to knowledge and ability to maintain ownership gives you freedom, confidence, and a desire to expand.
I'm not going to say that I don't have a server-collection problem, but that problem did put me on a good career path, so at least I have that going for me.
Help
$ Help
bash: Help: command not found
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Purchase? I just kept my old toaster around and ran a file server on it.
I'm reporting this post because I'm in it and don't like it
You could easily switch the panels and show Windows 11 hardware requirements Vs Linux
This is, if not from Real Life Comics, very reminiscent of it.
Pretty sure it’s from Serial Experiments Lain, a show I’ve heard much about but haven’t watched yet so I’m not 100% certain about this.
TY!
edit: Seems you're correct. however Real Life Comics had at least one strip about how, iirc, the protagonist introduced his girlfriend to Linux and the next week she was building a Beowulf cluster. The visuals were not dissimilar to this, but RLC is difficult to search in my experience.
It is, and you should watch it
I have watched it and just seeing the meme has gotten Lain's theme stuck in my head.
Looks about right to me.
haven’t watched yet
That's a bug. You need to fix that ASAP.
This is what I'm drooling over currently:
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-n5-max-ai-nas
128 gb uram 🤤
Fucking saved.
Do you know what kind of open weights it can run, and at which t/s?
Yeah I can run any open weight models which leave me enough vram to not crash. But its a bit of a gotcha because you also need enough system ram to load the model. I use it to heavily parallelize training tasks.. Honestly, I need to tinker with it more but I'm pretty annoyed at how ollama has gone deep in the paint as basically being a tool for accessing cloud models.
Someday TM
I’m pretty annoyed at how ollama has gone deep in the paint as basically being a tool for accessing cloud models.
Can you expound a little more on what you mean by this?
I like ollama, but I only really use it to load models and then hit the API. My current issue with them is that they don't seem to support non-text base interaction very well.
I've been thinking about getting a real NAS machine instead of having my gaming PC always on. This looks pretty slick.
Yeah I've got the 128 gb Asus one as a processing machine, and honestly, I wish I would have just got it as a server. For my purposes, I need this bad-ass GPU/ CPU much closer to the storage.
Honestly, just a basic 2:1 is fine for me considering I'm rarely if ever running my compute locally.
I'm not sure I need a lot of compute on my NAS. I guess I might as well get as much as I can before it becomes cost prohibitive. Not planning on running any local LLMs on it though, so a GPU is probably overkill.
Yeah I do a ton of machine learning research and like, distance between the database and the place I'm doing the processing really matters. My NAS is on the other side of my house and it would be great to have maybe two NAS, a primary one for like, my movies, personal files, old projects etc, and then this one right next to it for active projects.
Right now I'm having to do it all on my primary machine, which means I often have to freeze updates for long periods of time once I get a particular compute configuration set up for a particular project.
Curious. I must be a filthy casual with the one desktop PC. There is at least one other PC here, but it's out of action.
It could do with plugging in at some point to see if it still works, but I see no benefit in making that permanent.
there's loads of things you can do with it, but arguably one of the best is making it a media PC. if you sail the high seas, then a full Servarr stack is really nice to have.