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I'm autistic (they called it Asperger's when I was little).
Hobbies and passions: 80s/90s PCs, local solar powered homelab + AI, THC, vinyl records, tiny shiny things, 3D printing, cooking, the Resistance, data hoarding & preservation, climate change, Hello Kitty, civil liberties, IMAX, battery energy storage, large aircraft, weather, economics.
Professional: Industrial battery energy storage pioneer, supporting PJM grid stability via data center interconnections.
I'm a Windows 10 girl and I'm not switching to Linux (yet).
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Joined June 19, 2024
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Occupation:
Industrial Energy Storage
Location:
Maryland, USA
That global economic collapse I've been talking about all year might just happen before EOY. And it is 100% the US Regime's fault.
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/saudis-european-refiners-no-crude-next-month
An update on my triple 2080ti on DDR3 local solar powered AI server. It's impressive for its age and the fact that I built it for $700 plus a bunch of old crap. Combined forces of older hardware works!
I've got Hermes Agent running, the LLM is Qwen3.6-35B. Hermes has read-only access to my Google Workspace (for good reason!).
The LLM can push 550w+ across the 3x 2080ti GPUs. 33GB of VRAM allows big model and big context - Home Assistant works so nicely with a big LLM.
I want to drop in a Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU, but that's about it for hardware.
Spec list:
- Intel Core i7-3930K CPU
- Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Motherboard
- 64GB DDR3 RAM (8 x 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-1600C9D-16GXM)
- 3 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower Edition GPUs (33GB Total VRAM)
- Corsair RM1000e 1000W Power Supply (Refurbished)
- 240GB SATA SSD (OS Boot Drive)
- 3 x 1TB SATA SSDs (AI Storage Array)
- Advantech Industrial Computer 510 Case
#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking
Good news! Your CRT will never spy on you.
$25 grand in my pocket !! My #solar facts over two years. We are net positive in production and produce a few MWh over what we use. 1:1 net metering in #Maryland
$42,000 initial investment.
Total Lifetime Value: $67,228.86
Current Net Profit: $25,228.86
Lifetime clean energy generation has now avoided 345,438 lbs of CO2 emissions.
A large chunk of energy goes into my personal data center, which includes a local LLM server, public information archive, and hundreds of TB of storage.
Local solar powered AI server build log:
07-06-2026: Assembled the core components for the first time. Had to update BIOS to make the 2080 ti work in this old board. Waiting for a couple odds and ends to arrive tomorrow, then I can button it up and begin the software work.
Current spec list:
- Intel Core i7-3930K CPU
- Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Motherboard
- 64GB DDR3 RAM (8 x 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-1600C9D-16GXM)
- 3 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower Edition GPUs (33GB Total VRAM)
- Corsair RM1000e 1000W Power Supply (Refurbished)
- 240GB SATA SSD (OS Boot Drive)
- 3 x 1TB SATA SSDs (AI Storage Array)
- Advantech Industrial Computer 510 Case
#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking
Dammit. As I prep for my new 5 gig fiber pipe, I've been upgrading some network things. Switches, NICs, etc.
When I built my OPNSense router a few months back, I put in a Intel X540-T2 NIC not knowing that it operates at either 1 gig or 10 gig; nothing in between !!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
#networking #homelab #opnsense
Dear Valve: Sell the Steam Machine bare-bones - no RAM and no SSD, so people have the option to thief it from an old laptop or something. Your Super NES isn't worth the price rn.
#valve #steam #games #steammachine #rampocalypse
Ukraine anti-drone drones now have shotguns on them so they can take out multiple enemy drones #ukraine
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@Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news cover everything. Agrivoltaics are a thing, and fossil fuels must be avoided even if some fields turn to solar
Every time you use a censored cloud AI and it refuses to produce something horrible, someone making slave wages in Kenya already looked at it....and thousands more like it.
This is the human cost behind some of these systems that nobody talks about.
Literally everything now should be #distributed, preferably across the world and not within a single country:
-Power generation
-Defense
-Data centers
-Social media
-Public data
-Your money
-Medicine
-Food production
-Education
In the event of war, as demonstrated in multiple conflicts today, anything #centralized is a #target.
In the event of peace, as demonstrated by #fascist regimes, anything centralized is a target.
3 days during Maryland heat dome event. HVAC used 41kWh + 15kWh, so 56kWh with heat pumps keeping the house at 75f. My personal data center used 78kWh 😆 But it was all solar powered....and my neighbors too! #solar #heatdome #renewables #hvac #airconditioning #energy
So META is going to sell its "surplus compute". I thought there wasn't enough compute and we needed a gazillion data centers?
Junk-box local AI server build log:
-Purchased 2 more 2080 Ti GPUs
-Industrial Chassis in hand
-32GB DDR3 in hand
-Mobo+CPU+PSU ordered.
-Intel Core i7-3930K (6 Cores / 12 Threads)
-Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 (LGA 2011 Socket)
-32GB DDR3 (4 x 8GB Sticks, configured for Quad-Channel)
-3 x nVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower Edition (11GB each / 33GB Total VRAM)
-Rosewill 80-Gold 1000W Power Supply
-Multiple SATA SSDs (RAID 0)
-Advantech Industrial Chassis
-Operating System: Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
-Text Generation Frontend: Text Generation WebUI (Oobabooga)
-LLM Engine Backend: ExLlamaV2 (EXL2 model format)
-Image Generation Platform: ComfyUI
-Multi-GPU Orchestration: ComfyUI-MultiGPU (DisTorch 2.0)
-Networking & Remote Access: NetBird VPN (WireGuard)
#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking
I love Ukraine's "Long Range Sanctions".
Yesterday evening at roughly 5pm, a monster wind event hit our house. The power went out. Then it flashed on and off around 10 times, as I ran as fast as I could to the breaker panel to kill the main breaker before things got damaged. (if you watch the flood light in the video, you can see this on-off cycling.) Shortly after, we switched to batteries and ran for around 5 hours without incident.
Heh. Ditched my Linksys for DIY OPNSense router just in time. Get rid of your corporate closed-sourced shit NOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NIXvqtVWso
You know one of the reasons I'm a Windows 10 girl? Dependencies. Doesn't happen often on Win for some reason that something won't run because some mysterious package is missing. Run EXE, it works (usually).
Some folks say the data center scrap won't be useful after the collapse. Like WTF do we do with soldered on HBM and NAND? Useless, right?
But wait. There's more! In China, there are profitable shops that do crazy shit like making a 22GB 3080 or whatever. Well, those shops will have killer inventory after the pop. You know those Chinese ALIExpress outfits that sell old laptop GPUs on desktop cards? Shit like that?
Now think about the overlap....thoughts?
Does this de-gen not realize the Qatari airplane is a Boeing 747, made in USA?
"Trump says US ‘couldn’t build a plane like this’ as Qatari-gifted Air Force One embarks on inaugural flight"
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@wiredor@digitalcourage.social @ennolenze@infosec.exchange This reminds me of how many drone parts must be laying all over the country, and maybe they can start to harvest parts from them.
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@ben@social.benjaminturner.me Nice. Amazing how well these old platforms work for this. Just using them to glue a bunch of GPUs together. What size models does that run and how many tokens per second? I'm getting around 64t/s on my old 2080tis
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io My solar powered AI server with 3x 2080tis is pretty good at this and cost me $700 plus crap I found in my boxes.
Fuckin' Linux. Installed Ubuntu LTS on the AI server. Worked perfectly, all was well. Then ran an update...reboots to blank screen, but doesn't seem dead as disk i/o blinks periodically.
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@apzpins@some.apz.fi I suppose it would be kind of like this? Remove the tilting window panel completely. It's hard figuring strategy from pics without seeing it in person so I'm guessing around here!
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange this is purely an AI server that I will hide on the floor somewhere. I have a 7950X / 7900XTX/128 DDR5 rig for gaming and stuff
OK so here’s my evil plan for a junk-box local AI server built from ancient DDR3 era hardware and crap I have laying around. I am stacking three blower RTX 2080 Tis for the 33GB of VRAM (I already have one in hand). I scored an Intel Core i7-3930K and X79 motherboard on eBay for ~$100 bucks and I already have 32GB DDR3 RAM that I'll thief from my old FX8350 rig. A 1000W PSU will power it, I'll power limit the GPUs.
This Win10+AMD+Ollama girl will be jumping head first into Linux, Intel, nVidia, GPU stacks, and will run ExLlamaV2 via Oobabooga. For diffusion I am using ComfyUI. Hell I’m even striping junkbox SATA SSDs into a RAID 0 array. Then I'll use NetBird to access my secure solar powered local AI from anywhere. $650 spent; local AI frankenserver coming soon...stay tuned!
#LocalAI, #SelfHosted, #Homelab, #BudgetBuild, #ComfyUI, #HardwareHacking
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@ithoughtisawa2@infosec.exchange The backoff from 10g is 1g. This damn chip will not do 2.5g or 5g. I was today years old when I found out from the docs.
When your listening to MP3s you pirated 26 years ago and those mp3 glitches are still there from the botched download at 56k in 2000 😆
PSA: For those roasting in Europe.... sustainable air conditioning is the answer. Yes, USA and China and such caused the mess for you. But please get over yourselves and adopt some A/C. It can be done effectively:
- Balcony solar of ~900w (2-3 panels)
- Inverter based window AC unit
- A small battery unit as a buffer for clouds, etc
These small window units only draw around 350w or so. They can run directly off a small balcony solar setup; after all, you really only need it when the sun is shining strong!
These are my backup emergency A/Cs. Yes, I have high efficiency central and mini-split units, but if the grid fails (or the central unit itself) in 110f, I can pop these in and let the SUN keep me COOL for FREE.
Don't shoot the messenger!
Heh. I've just achieved 10 gigabit Ethernet from router to my PC, via 3 10G switches. Now bring me that 5 gig fiber 😁😎😏
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange @aptronym@autistics.life I suppose he could fake his death or something but that seems harder to get away with now with face detection