Recent content by Kai Robinson

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    Mac Pro 6,1 — no signs of life after replacing I/O board

    Do you definitely know for sure that the 'new' board works? And when you repasted the processors, did you remove them from the sockets?
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    Hacking the Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer (New Thread)

    @Mac84 maybe it's time for a third thread on this as we're at 26 pages? :)
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    How to: Use Ollama with unsupported GPU

    Hi! Welcome to TinkerDifferent :) I haven't attempted to make any changes to the AI in Project NOMAD, i just wanted to install OLLAMA separately in Linux on the Laptop, to see if it was possible. As for the systemctl commands in the first post, you're adding them (appending the existing...
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    Discord Weekly Summary

    As mentioned on the discord regarding the forum -> discord summary, I think this is a great idea, a weekly summary that keeps folks on both sides in the loop.
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    68kmla MIA

    Well, the link does appear as a large banner to the right of the forum nodes on the main page!
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    [Youtube] How World War 2 Rationing Shaped Britain

    I often wonder if people from the US and elsewhere were ever told about the experiences we, as a nation, lived through, during WW2. In particular - rationing and food provision. It's often a trope in American media that 'British food is terrible' yet never stop to consider why that might have...
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    How to: Use Ollama with unsupported GPU

    Unfortunately, with only 16GB RAM in the system and no way to expand it (single SO-DIMM DDR4 slot, 8GB soldered to the board), the BIOS won't allow more than 2GB allocated as VRAM.
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    How to: Use Ollama with unsupported GPU

    nVidia has CUDA, AMD has ROCm and then...if you're not lucky, you have nothing, for GPU accelerated LLM workloads? NO! Because Ollama now supports Vulkan! This means that if, like me, you have a machine that's not cutting edge, you can still leverage the power of the GPU to accelerate the...
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    68kmla MIA

    There have been legitimate instances of people that have come to our discord that have no idea we had a forum, either, mostly because they're not the sort of people that 'do' forums...
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    68kmla MIA

    I don't believe so, it's just life happens. People aren't duty bound to finish a passion project per a schedule - there are more important things going on for some people and time and money are in ever shorter supply.
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    Anybody need some ddr4?

    -= FLEXES WITH 32GB KITS =- 😂
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    68kmla MIA

    I know that one barrier for a lot of people has been that there were too many subcategories and it was potentially confusing where to post. Lately, i've been tidying and consolidating the options - hopefully it'll be simpler to people now!
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    68kmla MIA

    Yeah sorry for the manual approval, we had too many spam bots signing up en-masse. Wanted to make sure joiners were real people!
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    What did you do to your computer today?

    I really should monitor them a little better I forgot the VM was running! 😂