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Do not run Ubuntu on these old machines, use plain Debian instead (no fat desktop needed, no overhead due to braindead snap packaging etc.). Xfce4 should be fine. SSDs help and also using zswap to counter the low RAM. The last official install media for 32bit (first Intel Atoms) is bookworm but updating is no problem.

Be sure not to buy any 'branded' variant, though (e.g. from Verizon etc.)!

Something like that would also be great for scripting, not only agents.

Have a look at Donato Capitella's video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8j4vO-wz0 He provides also toolboxes and benchmark tables as text (in the video description)

Regarding M5, this has similar size but runs Linux and is cheaper: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m5stack/cardputerzero

DGX Spark does not have high memory bandwith. M3 Max (Mac Studio) features more memory bandwith than that one. See https://aimultiple.com/dgx-spark-alternatives

You do not have to use all resources that are under the systemd umbrella. That's just BS, sorry. And prod deployments breaking... Well I guess that never happened with those best-managed sysv init scripts? Guys, pick your fights reasonably.

Currently, llama.cpp clusters don't support tensor parallelism, have a look at Donato Capitella's detailed report: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKXm_mKCCM He also provides rocm toolboxes for Strix Halo: https://strix-halo-toolboxes.com/#about

But existing resources were not affected.

Tangentially, in theory, k3s + kubevirt + microvms sounds like the optimal combination for lightweight but isolated deployment. Does anyone have experience with that?

Please show sources. Maybe no one appreciates it because it's only rumors spread by enterprises massively profiting from such rumors? And about your toilet paper analogy: Every producer tried everything to improve output. You cannot just let your machines run faster. You also need input materials, workers and logistics to scale accordingly, which is often not possible.

Server auction still features cheap servers with ECC: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/#ecc=true

Outdated! Should have linked directly to https://github.com/philipl/inferencefs/ obviously.

It was a giant mistake to keep 'classic' (umnaintained, unpatched) yarn around. Switched to pnpm in part due to that reason.

Hank Green also explains 400 billions are really very much cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcjnLc4TH4M

Not at all. If you're lucky you can (after some fiddling) install a real coreboot, this site is incredibly helpful for that: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html

Kudos for the idea and being fully open to the state of this project (AI code, expect breakage)!

This is a GNU extension so not portable.

There's another big feature: You're not relying on the time zone to which the server was set (like with cron) but can explicitly specify a time zone:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

The Pi is really a GPU with a CPU added on so the whole system needs to be brought up by the (binary blobs for running the) GPU. Hopefully not the case in these more PC-like systems...

That was the old docker compose. Things got a lot better since they rewrote it in Golang and update it again.

Have a look at multi stage container builds. Your images should not need a build step at start, the result should be in the baked image. Else you become reliant on fetching packages during build etc.

Better hardware would have to be bought with additional money. And no one can forecast reliably how much optimization is left in the game.

Wolves are back to continental Europe. Takes some time to get everyone to accommodate again. Breeders are not amused.

It would be interesting to have a list of places where you can use one. FabLab Zürich is the only hackerspace I found at first search. https://wiki.zurich.fablab.ch/Kniterate

When the agent uses your GH credentials to nuke all your projects or put out a lot of crap, this separation will not save you.

You got to weigh this against abortions for unborn children diagnosed (maybe even wrongly, the tests are really not that exact) with Down's syndrome. The slippery slope already began a long time ago probably.

The maker community is so much more than just 3D printing and soldering! The fight for open-source programming tools and open file formats are so important.

There's at least a paper to download: https://cdn.skoda-storyboard.com/2026/04/Skoda-DuoBell-Resea...

Jeff Geerling's reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE