TheTwelveYearOld

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[–] TheTwelveYearOld@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one here mentioned Invidious but how does it compare to it?

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How much have chatbots like ChatGPT replaced Google or other search engines for you? (alien.top)
 

I've heard a lot of people say they use Google considerably less after they started using ChatGPT, but personally my usage of Google hasn't gone down that much. I still make lots of random searches out of curiosity, and use Perplexity to make those same searches, I'd actually say Perplexity has made me search more in total.

However, it has greatly reduced the amount of troubleshoot searching I've done since I can ask GPT about how to do X and Y in a certain app (and often gives accurate answers about navigating app UIs), and troubleshooting.

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Can I run an LLM that takes up no more than 1-4GB of RAM / VRAM and have it answer questions using my notes, or is that unrealistic? (alien.top)
 

I have an 8GB M1 MacBook Air and 16GB MBP (that I haven't turned in for repair) that I'd like to run an LLM on, to ask questions and get answers from notes in my Obsidian vault (100s of markdown files). I've been lurking this subreddit but I'm not sure if I could run LLMs <7B with 1-4GB of RAM or if the LLM(s) would be too quality.

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Guess: Will Mistral 70B be open source? (alien.top)
 

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What percent of your usage of LLMs are closed-source ones (GPT, Claude, etc.) and what percent are open source ones (Llama, Mistral, etc.)? Pick the answer that's closest to you. (alien.top)
 

I like following the open source LLM scene, but I'm going to keep using ChatGPT plus since its still much better than other LLMs out there. This is the only subscription I can justify paying for and consistently get my $$ worth out of (though I am a broke college student). The only way I'd stop is if running paid close sourced models weren't any better or if open LLMs were better, or at the very least they weren't much better to justify paying. Open ones have the advantages of privacy, offline usage, and for some of them: less or no censorship.

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For Syncthing, what am I supposed to when one directory has changes but it hasn’t synced with another in a long time? (alien.top)
 

I just ended up deleting the old one and syncing all over again since it didn’t take much time for the files to sync. But I have a folder that’s let’s say several GBs or bigger, what should be done? I did attempt just syncing them again but then I saw old files appear and decided fuck it.