Disonantezko

joined 2 years ago
[–] Disonantezko 1 points 1 month ago

PocketPal is good, has built in huggingface search and download, only text chat (no multimodal yet), support last models from llama-cpp, as:

  • gemma3 (just released)
  • falcon3
  • phi-4-mini
  • granite3.2
[–] Disonantezko 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My gear is an old:

I7-4790 16GB RAM

How many tokens by second?

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 1 month ago

It's not out of my scope, I'm just learning what can I do locally with my current machine.


Today I read about RAG, maybe I'm gonna try an easy local setup to chat with a PDF.

 

I have an GTX 1660 Super (6 GB)

Right now I have ollama with:

  • deepseek-r1:8b
  • qwen2.5-coder:7b

Do you recommend any other local models to play with my GPU?

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even at 160kbps, maybe 1/1.000.000 people can recognice a FLAC vs MP3 trying 10 times (continuous) using expensive headphones and players, 320kbps is overkill, I prefer a FLAC and just encode to Opus.

Right now Opus is better and can be played in web browsers, smartphones, YouTube and Netflix are using that for awhile.

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 2 months ago

Wayland and Cosmic are not there yet for beginners, more like beta, watch videos from Brodie Robertson, I'll wait half year at least to try that for newbies.

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But web browsers and video players are going to be painful with any distro.

[–] Disonantezko 7 points 2 months ago

This!

Even 4GB RAM is low for web browsers and they're gonna struggle, A LOT, even with just one tab open, is going to be painfully slow to not want to use it anymore.

Old laptops like this, don't have hardware video decoders for YouTube or any video in AVC or HEVC códecs that is used everywhere today.

You can use Gnumeric for spreadsheets and Abiword for docs if Libreoffice is too slow.

[–] Disonantezko 3 points 2 months ago
  • SliTaz is fun to play and very small.
  • Puppy Linux is very capable and there are Debian variants.
[–] Disonantezko 2 points 2 months ago

Bad idea, they struggle with YouTube or any video because they don't have hardware decoders for AVC/HEVC.

Maybe can decode by software, something easy on CPU (MPEG1 maybe), and the conversion is done by other machine.

Maybe audio?

Reference: I have one of those Atom netbooks.

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 4 months ago

Not so obscure, just 50mb and very functional, in between tiny core and puppy.

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 4 months ago

Not really obscure

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