I think this warrants an extra post. And the beginners thread is a year old and I guess not a lot of people watch comments there.

I use KoboldCpp and like to recommend that to people who are new to the hobby or don’t own a proper gaming rig. It’s relatively easy to install and you can try it now, without any GPU, and see if you like it. I’d say it’s usable on CPU up to about 13B (with quantized models). Of course it’ll be orders of magnitude slower than a GPU.

I’d say every bit of VRAM counts. So you might as well buy as much as you can afford. And you’ll be able to run more intelligent models. Use one of the VRAM calculators to see what fits in 16GB or 24GB. And if you need that model and context size.

A VM is practically as secure as a dedicated machine. I mean in theory it isn’t. But in practice, that’s how everybody does it, including the big tech companies. And there’s rarely any dangerous vulnerabilities.

It all depends on how you set it up. If the machines lack proper firewalling and can reach internal services. If you didn’t set some permissions right. Or there is a vulnerability in the software or the way it’s installed… I think that’d be the main concerns. And it doesn’t matter too much which exact virtualization or containerization setup you choose, as long as it provides isolation, and also isolation from the networks it isn’t supposed to access.

Just make sure you actually enable the jails/filters for the services you use … I’ve seen people just install it and that will by default just protect ssh and leave everything else as is.

That looks like the internet. Every server gets bombarded with these requests. Generally: Use good passwords, make sure your software blocks bots brute-forcing passwords, after some sane amount of tries… Keep everything updated…

If you want some more attacks, install a mailserver. Or expose VNC/Windows Remote Desktop or a VOIP server. That gets the bots really worked up.

Yeah, It’s either 4 lines and you got some service running… Or you need to learn a functional language, fight the software project and make it behave on an immutable filesystem and google 2 pages of boilerplate code to package it… I rarely had anything in-between. 😆

I mean the first website you posted (wikitravel.org) also seems alright to me? It has useful advice (at least for my city) and the content seems to be licensed under Creative Commons… I wasn’t aware of the exact background anyways… But: I found some nice tips on Wikivoyage on my trips. Often some insider tips, because it’s not a well known website 😉

I bought my smart bulbs at Ikea. Idk how the price compares to the brands you mentioned.

I think smart home lighting is overrated. Schedules are nice for holiday and outside lights. But I don’t use any “smart” solutions in most rooms. They have limited use in the hallway, though (with a motion sensor?) And in places where you want to dim them, like next to the TV. That’s my opinion.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page

Idk if kids are a target group of Nobara Linux, but I heard that’s good for gaming.

Rest sound good. Don’t forget to give them lots of productivity tools… OBS, Kdenlive, LMMS so they can practice shooting videos, create music… They’d need LibreOffice, maybe an IDE to learn coding, or something to create a website. As a kid I had a lot of fun tinkering with the Free Software tools, next to gaming.

Test the website blocking, if you restrict for example porn. Nowadays the browsers all try to do some privacy enhanced DNS over HTTP and that might circumvent the default DNS. I’m not up to date with the current solutions to restrict usage… Maybe someone can chip in, I’m pretty sure that’s available.

The big one is fine. I think it’s already grown up. And does most of the chores around. And the small one: I tend to bring it with me. I carry it in my backpack, especially to some nerd activities. I don’t think there is any rivalry. They’re individuals and I think my machines all feel my love and affection. No, I don’t miss them in day to day life. We’ll meet each afternoon anyways and I think some leeway is healthy. But that changes if I go on vacation for a week. I sometimes really miss them when I’m in a different city for several days… Idk. Seems one-sided anyways, because they then just sleep all day like a cat and don’t really mind my absence.

They’re awesome. There are foldable ones which you can carry around. Or big ones that you don’t even need to charge, because they’re directly hooked to the power grid. You don’t need to hold them, because they sit on the table. Have about 105 separate keys (ever wondered what your 8 other fingers are for?), a mega large screen… Mine even has 2 screens, I can open like 5 apps at the same time! They have headphone jacks, sd-slots, multiple(!) charging ports which you can use for other things than charging… almost endless storage… And there are very smooth operating systems available, which don’t even lock you into Google or Apple’s ecosystem… I really like them!

Best thing is, they won’t even drop out of cellphone coverage when you go grocery shopping. You’ll just leave them at home and they keep on downloading. Once you return, you might have all bad sitcoms of the 90s saved on them.

Ah, thanks for explaining. Guess I’m just old. I do my piracy on a regular computer.

What’s the title got to do with the post?

I’d say get some support by friends or relatives so you’re not completely on your own. Then get out there and maybe get professional help if you like.

What’s your life situation like? Do you study? Do an apprenticeship (Ausbildung)? Can you afford to pay rent? Or can you get “BAföG” or “Unterhalt” from your parents? Do you have any friends or people who you can rely on?

Other option: Call a help line, they’ll have some advice on who to ask for direct help:

• https://familienportal.de/familienportal/lebenslagen/krise-und-konflikt/krisetelefone-anlaufstellen

Tablet: Read magazines and watch TV shows. You might be fine if you own a large phone, though.

And the Lemmy Explorer. Though, I recommend brushing up the knowledge which instances are nice. I skip lemmygrad, hexbear and even lemmy.ml these days. Also lemmit.online since that’s just reddit bots.

I’d like AI to do the chores for me. If I’m unrealistic, that extends to doing the laundry and loading the dishwasher… But that’s not a thing yet. Realistically, I think it could go through the files and vacation pictures on my computer, keep everything organized, neat and tidy all the time… Save bookmarks, .tag pictures and handle duplicate files… Because now everything looks like xkcd 1360 on my computer. Same for the rest of my online life.

I for one, unsubscribe from communities that copy and dump content from someplace else. I found they’re low engagement anyways. But there are plenty good ones. Idk what to recommend because I don’t know other people’s interests and spoken languages.

(It might be a different story for meme pictures, since they’re usually circulated and regurgitated. That happens on other platforms as well.)

Seems I forgot to bookmark what I read… There are people telling the chatbots to repeat the previous text, so it outputs the prompt. It got way more complicated than that, but there are a lot of methods and leaked prompts.

• https://matt-rickard.com/a-list-of-leaked-system-prompts
• https://github.com/jujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts

I skimmed the link you provided. Yes, that seems to include solid advice. Good for beginners, nothing new to me, since I (somewhat) followed the AI hobby enthusiast community since LLaMA1. But I have to look up what writing all caps does, I suppose that severely messes with the tokenizer?! But I’ve seen the big companies do this, too, in some of the leaked prompts.

And I guess with the “early” models from 2023 and before, it was much more important to get the prompts exactly right. Not confuse it etc. That got way better as models improved substancially, and now these models (at least) get what I want from them almost every time. But I think we picked the low hanging fruits and we can’t expect the models itself to improve as fast as they did in the past. So it’s down to prompting strategies and other methods to improve the performance of chatbots.