Why do you say you don’t care about climate change, and what would make you care? Climate change is one of those things that’s going to suck for all of us, so even if you have no empathy for anyone else, it’s kinda surprising that you don’t at least care about how it will affect you.

No worries! I have reasons for not installing Telegram myself, but I’m curious what your reasons are? What arguments have you made to him so far and what were his responses?

Dissuade = discourage. Is that what you mean?

I laughed out loud when I read the title of this post. When I’m helping my customers with their domain DNS records, I always analogise DNS to “a phone book for the internet”. I love that we’ve come full circle and phone books are “DNS for the phone system” 😂 (also goddamn does this make me feel old 😭)

Yeah, clearly no component has ever died or could ever die earlier than its longest possible life span for any reason, overheating due to bad/old paste is the only possible reason a CPU in particular might die, you know everything about every system ever built including mine. I see my mistake and bow to your omniscience 🙄

Seriously, I’m embarrassed for you. Good luck in your studies.

I’m not the one who asked but thank you for summarising! It’s late here and I’m too tired for a whole video, so this helped me. Those results are interesting. I’ve been planning on switching from Windows to Linux as my main OS; last time I tried was before the latest AM5/RDNA4 drivers were integrated, so I had terrible instability like Plasma crashing all the time and occasional lockups. I installed Windows 11 so I could at least get my work done, but if my environment can stay stable then it might be time to finish the move.

No power to influence it is incorrect. You do not have the power to change it. However, if you leave, you are a data point. If lots of people leave, they are also data points. Data influences decisions at most companies. This statement does not imply the data is read correctly, nor that the decisions made in light of the interpretation of the data are the best ones.

First of all, yes, everyone using older technology “has bullets coming at them”, you clearly know as well as I do about wear and tear in electronic components so I don’t know why the tone of your reply implies that older hardware will run fine forever as long as “nothing is wrong”. It’s a balancing act; you can’t know if something’s gonna go wrong with your hardware until it does, but failure rates go up the older it gets, plain and simple.

Secondly, yes, you completely misunderstood what I said. I upgraded before anything went wrong, for gaming and local AI primarily, and because I wanted to avoid the tariffs I knew were coming. I repurposed my old system in its entirety into a server, and not even a few months later it BSOD’d with the fatal hardware error. I know it can be a transient error, I said it’s generally not, because that’s my experience in the absence of overheating/overvolting. I had not overclocked at all, I don’t feel like risking it for a few extra percent performance when I’m running a system for long-term stability.

Finally, I think you’ll find that I not only didn’t recommend an upgrade and just parted out an upgrade kit at what most would consider a reasonable price these days, but that I ALSO labeled my experience as an anecdote. Meanwhile, you gave your anecdote like it shows I’m an asshole or an idiot, or both, for upgrading when my PC wasn’t on literal fire. Fuck me for trying to help a buddy out on the Internet, I guess.

FATAL HARDWARE ERROR: PROCESSOR CORE is generally not a transient error. Good for you that your old CPU is still going strong, but anecdata does not an argument make. This was my work machine and I can’t risk it going down.

You can get the Ryzen 5 7600X (6 core, 4.7GHz, AM5 socket) + Gigabyte B650m + 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM for US$382 here, which may or may not qualify as “a lot of money” to you: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-ryzen-5-7000-series-raphael-zen-4-socket-am5/p/N82E16819113770?Item=N82E16819113770

Also includes a 1TB SSD (only PCIE4 though) at no charge, in case that matters. It’d make for a decent upgrade kit, in my estimation; you get more modern performance plus headroom for another AM5 upgrade down the track.

Also, anecdote time! My 3700X just blue-screened the other week with a fatal hardware error in one of the processor cores. I feel like I upgraded just in time. Don’t fall into the trap of believing your current hardware will run forever! You might not need an upgrade now, but far better to do it while you still have old hardware you can reinstall so you at least have a working system.

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And how much did it cost? The whole thing, I mean. Must people who buy a game want to play the content so the price of said content should be included. Somewhere in the region of $1000, isn’t it?

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Okay no worries, I’d at least try llama cpp just to see how fast it is and to verify it works. If it doesn’t work or only works once and then quits, maybe the problem is LMStudio. In that case you might want to try GPT4All (https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all); this is the one I started with way back in the day.

If you care enough to post the logs from LMStudio after it crashes I’m happy to take a look for you and see if I can see the issue, as well 🙌

Which runtimes did you try, specifically?

From that thread, switching runtimes in LMStudio might help. On Windows the shortcut is apparently Ctrl+shift+R. There are three main kinds: Vulkan, CUDA, and CPU. Vulkan is an AMD thing; CUDA is an nVidia thing; and CPU is a backup to use when the other two aren’t working for it is sssslllllooooooowwwwwww.

In the thread one of the posters said they got it running on CUDA, and I imagine that would work well for you since it’s an nVidia chip; or, if it’s already using CUDA try llama.cpp or Vulkan.

Or just accept that not everyone will be having a secure conversation every time at first, but more will be secured as more and more people like me convince our family members to use it and eventually we transition everyone away from SMS?

No, of course not, why would we build a critical mass of users like that?

Since they removed SMS support almost my entire family and my friends uninstalled signal, except a few who keep it to talk to me, and my half dozen friends privacy-conscious enough to care. Dozens of people, down to eight if you don’t count me, in my circles alone. Objectively, removing SMS support harmed Signal’s popularity and made everyone less secure. The argument for why they did it was at best myopic and also, in my opinion, utter bullshit.

I’m only diagnosed autistic, but I relate really hard to a lot of ADHD memes as well. I like to analogise with:

It’s like everyone is in their own sinking dinghy. Everyone is bailing water out of their dinghy, but neurotypicals get a bucket and I have a thimble.

Ah! It’s because you’re using the 1.5B model. It’s too small. Good for specific functions, not for chat. For Q&A, you want at least the 7B model (but 8B is about the same size and I think performs better for language tasks).

No problem - and, that’s not thorough, that’s the cut down version haha!

Yeah, that hardware’s a little old so the token generation might be slow-ish (your RAM speed will make a big difference, so make sure you have the fastest RAM the system will support), but you should be able to run smaller models without issue 😊 Glad to help, I hope you manage to get something up and running!