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I use k3s with Calico so I can have k8s network policies for each service I’m running.

NVIDIA definitely dominates for specialized workloads. Look at these Blender rendering benchmarks and notice AMD doesn’t appear until page 3. Wish there were an alternative to NVIDIA Optix that were as fast for path tracing, but there unfortunately is not. Buy an AMD card if you’re just gaming, but you’re unfortunately stuck with NVIDIA if you want to do path traced rendering cost effectively:

https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=OPTIX&compute_type=CUDA&compute_type=HIP&compute_type=METAL&compute_type=ONEAPI&group_by=device_name&blender_version=4.5.0

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Here’s hoping AMD makes it to the first page with next generation hardware like Radiance Cores:

https://wccftech.com/amd-unveils-radiance-cores-neural-arrays-universal-compression-next-gen-rdna-gpu-architecture/

Yeah, I’m used to GPT and Claude for code, so Duck.ai just pales in comparison, as much as I appreciate that it might be more private.

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Actually, seems you can get access to more advanced models if you give them $10 / month.

In my experience, Duck.ai is practically useless, but their AI Search Assist is pretty spot on a fair amount of the time.

I mainly use DDG search as an incrementally better option than Google. Other options mentioned in this thread are probably better still, but DDG is definitely still a better option than Google that doesn’t require signing up with a credit card or self-hosting something, as imperfect as it may be.

I use Restic and also use Backrest to have a UI to browse my repos. I would use Backrest for everything, but I’d rather have my backup config completely source controlled.

Plot twist: they’re the same.

I have @home and @ subvolumes, with Timeshift taking automated weekly snapshots of @ with all of the system directories, but don’t I bother with @home since that gets backed up in other ways.

I recently setup Mint with btrfs Timeshift, and grub-btrfs to make it more like OpenSUSE. It’s more work to do that with Mint, but I’ve tried customizing other distros to make them more like Mint and have come to the conclusion I just like Mint.

You mean the QA teams a lot of companies laid off because management decided the developers (and now AI) can just write all the automated tests?

AI isn’t taking the jobs, dipshit rich assholes are cutting the jobs. Taking a job implies doing the job, and from that perspective, the remaining people who weren’t laid off are taking the jobs, not AI.

Some of their videos are pretty good, but taking funding from billionaires is never a good look.