

Yes, that’s the scariest part, because all this behaviour is getting normalised. And this guy sure has chances to win an election and he seems to be much smarter compared to Trump.
The future looks grim.
Yes, that’s the scariest part, because all this behaviour is getting normalised. And this guy sure has chances to win an election and he seems to be much smarter compared to Trump.
The future looks grim.
Yes, would be nice to post a follow up post with your setup once you build it.
I went that route two three months ago and eventually bought a second hand Lenovo Thinkcentre PC. Installed two NVMe SSDs for VMs , 1 SATA SSD for booting Proxmox and a single 12Tb HDD for media storage and one of the VMs is TrueNAS.
I played in the BIOS to enable everything possible to lower the power consumption and disabled some interfaces I am not going to use. So overall I paid a bit over 400 Euro for everything with 2x32GB RAM and the CPU is 8th gen, meaning I can use it for hardware encoding and decoding of h265.
The problem with my setup is that it is not much more extensible than that, as it had only one m2 slot, so I bought a PCIe to m2 extension card to fit the second m2 SSD.
The data I will store on the HDD is mostly media, that’s not critical, and I have a cloud backup for my more important documents automated with an rsync job. But I was also playing with the idea to build a proper NAS for a while.
There are plenty of Chinese manufacturers that are manufacturing NAS-centric motherboards that come with built-in processors, like Topton, etc, just search AliExpress for them. You might also consider buying a motherboard with ECC support.
Regarding the case Jonsbo has really nice cases, but they are a bit on the more expensive side. But there are plenty of no name brands also on AliExpress offering sturdy NAS cases, one example https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqCnPiL. The Pico PSU is great, and very power efficient, but ultimately what PSU you pick would depend on your case choice. Personally, I wouldn’t go with the case from your link and the outside drive bay.
Some inspiration for you: https://youtu.be/Jr5MjhgPz_c
I was looking for a micro LED monitor a couple of months ago, but the technology is still not mature enough and everything on the market simply wasn’t good enough. OLED is great for TVs not so much for productivity monitors, micro LED should be perfect for monitors, but still a couple of years away from the mainstream.
Exactly this. Fuck off from Europe. Let’s see how you will survive if the rest of the world decides to isolate you.
This is more or less the most open source you can get at the moment. And it is way better than OpenAI which is open only in the name.
And listening to JD Vance the other day talking in Paris how the US plans to usurp that technology, I really hope they succeed, as we need more democratic access to AI and not controlled by a single nation.
That’s uplifting news.
Trump is behaving like a school bully since he got into office
Mind you this is only his 16th day in the office. What a rollercoaster of 4 years there would be.
The problem is that NVIDIA is consistently gimping the mid range making it a very unattractive proposition.
That’s a very toxic attitude.
Inference is in principle the process of generation of the AI response. So when you run locally and LLM you are using your GPU only for inference.
The whole startup industry rely on investors to cover for their costs for years, while they work on a loss, in order to obtain a bigger market share. Look at Netflix, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.
So buying an account you are increasing their market share.
But feel free to use Mistral, Deepseek, etc. that would be better
I mean you can exchange the network card with at least 2.5Gbps of your Intel computer, install Linux and create a share and use the Ryzen mini PC for managing and transcoding media files, but it will complicate your setup and won’t be very energy efficient.
No, by CPU is an odd choice, I meant for the i7-6700K. The Ryzen CPU is quite recent and very powerful, and energy efficient. Again, for a multimedia system you need a big case like the Define one and lots of SATA ports and bays. The Intel one checks the boxes, but you need a better processor or alternatively an external GPU, like the Intel Battlemage to have hardware encoding acceleration.
The mini PC is nice but not suitable for multimedia machine, as it lacks the SATA ports and bays. You can use it as a router, like OPNSense.
With friends like the US who needs enemies?
Why are you buying a rack when neither of your machines are rack mountable?
What is your use case, what are you using the big PC and the small one? Why Unraid and not TrueNAS Scale for example.
If you are planning on using the big machine for multimedia, be aware that the i7-6700K doesn’t support hardware encoding/decoding of HEVC and the CPU is not powerful enough for live 4K software transcoding.
This CPU is quite an odd choice though, it is 10 years old and in my opinion extremely outdated. Get at least 8-9 gen, that at least have this running.
Please show me an LLM model that is really open source. My understanding is that most of the open models are open weights. For the record Mistral is also releasing Open weights models.
Let the witch hunt begin.
What is amazing in this case is that they achieved spending a fraction of the inference cost that OpenAI is paying.
Plus they are a lot cheaper too. But I am pretty sure that the American government will ban them in no time, citing national security concerns, etc.
Nevertheless, I think we need more open source models.
Not to mention that NVIDIA also needs to be brought to earth.
I am personally surprised that the US did that without even consulting Ukraine. That’s fucking sick.
The next four years would be difficult. I am so sick of people behaving like bullies.