u/kirisoraa

Hey everyone:)

My university had a hackathon with the theme of building an AI agent, so I took my opportunity to test out my egpu setup in the field.

Framework 13 7640u with 64gb RAM, egpu is a 7900xt over usb4 40gbit.

Ran all the models for our project locally, gemma4:26b fit perfectly.

We finished 5th place out of 40 teams:)

Hey everyone!

My university had a hackathon and I took the opportunity to test out the portability of my egpu setup. The theme of the hackathon was building an agent, and we ran all the models for our project locally. Settled on gemma4:26b, fit inside my 7900xt no problem. Finished 5th place out of 40 teams:)

Hey everyone.

Thought I'd share my homelab, built on a very tight budget a couple of years ago. Whole thing came out to less than 300$ USD at the time of building (excluding router and UPS). its messy, dusty, and not like all your pretty setups, but it gets the job done and does it well:)

Parts:

• Xeon E5 2689v3 + random Chinese motherboard and RAM (cheap kit off aliexpress)
• 4x1Tb drives, bought extremely cheap because "they were in an office warehouse and the warranty ran out" (doubtful, but they've been working flawlessly so far)
• Cheap PSU off FB Marketplace (I desparately need to change this thing out, I know)
• Case and gigabit switch literally from a garbage dump
• APC UPS Unit, basically necessary in my region due to constant brownouts in the winter. Yes, the charger is propped up with an old HDD.
• Keenetic "Hopper" router. Nicest thing in this whole setup, got it after moving out from my parents:)
• Yes, that is a long Ethernet cable screwed to my ceiling. Landlord didn't care about the hole in the doorway.

Software and usecase:

• Truenas SCALE, drives in RAIDZ1
• Runs mostly immich, nextcloud and jellyfin for me and my family, + 2 cores run Folding@Home
• Doubles as a cascading proxy node for my friends in Russia (I am originally from there)
• My photography backups, mirroring my laptops SSD.

Hey everyone.

One of my close friends recently asked me if she could print some of my photos (samples included) to decorate her new apartment. Now, I'm a beginner-ish (1 year with a proper camera), and have no clue how to prepare my photos for prints. I don't have a very color-accurate display (albeit high-gamut), and I'm not sure what I need to look out for before sending files out to print. Can anyone give me some pointers? Do you see anything wrong in the editing in these photos that might come out bad on a print? The friend kinda is the person that started my whole photography journey by giving me her old camera, so I really want the end product to come out great:)

Hey everyone.

I analyzed 3.5 years of Telegram messages with my best friend and saw exactly how and why we basically went our separate ways. Couple of notes:

• G and S are us. M and N are our partners through this period of time.
• We were heavy texters even when we lived close, but after I moved to a different country it became basically our only way to keep in touch, save for the rare occasion of a CSGO game.
• Colored lines are a 30-day moving average. Gray bars are the raw numbers.
• idk why I made this. I guess I wanted to see how well our big life events lined up with our communication frequency.
• This isn't inherently sad! We both have other people in our lives that we grew closer with, and it's only natural as we entered our 20s, but our relationship specifically is drifting apart, mostly because of the distance and changing interests. We definitely aren't planning to stop being close friends.
• Data was exported through the built-in Telegram exporter, graph made with python+matplotlib. For those interested I can clean up the notebook and make it public on Github.