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I got an RX 9070 XT with 16GB VRAM and the obvious first thing to do was run local LLM inference on it. RDNA4 is brand new silicon — released early 2026 — and the software ecosystem hasn t fully caught up yet. Here s what I found. The Setup Model: Qwen3.5-9B-UD-Q6_K_XL — a 9 billion parameter [ ]
Some ChiFi some HiFi and all sounds much better now A (very) small and non-exhaustive list of ChiFi stores in 2023 Thanks to the well implemented dac chips on the PCBs and advancements in power supply circuits now we can enjoy quite a remarkable audio experience hooking a usb dac to any pc pairing it [ ]
It s 6th of July 2021, chia pool farming is a fact. The whole process seems a bit messy to me but it s manageable nonetheless. Straight to the point what do we need to start pooling in Linux: chia wallet , I prefer git version git clone https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain.git The main branch is good enough. [ ]
Chia coin is new and different to all the others. It uses hard disk space to secure the network and this method requires a lot less energy compared to traditional crypto currencies. Actually it s a new thing for me but I can say a word or two on what I already saw. Basically this coin [ ]
April 2021 heads up status Story so far: Digtvbg started mid 2019 June 2019 specs raspberry pi 3b+ on usb flash drive, Debian Buster with WordPress , php7 , Mariadb December 2019 it became obvious rpi3 is not snappy enough migrated to:Odroid N2 (gigabit connectivity) ubuntu 18 [ ]
OnePlus 6 with NetHunter Kernel using Termux with Atilo to install Debian and run Aircrack-ng Owning OnePlus 6 for 2 full years was a pleasant experience more or less. I m about to swap that phone for Poco F2 and I felt it would a shame if I don t try what many noobs do running [ ]
Arguing that you don t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. TOR browser is a modified Mozilla Firefox browser for use with the tor network. With that said, need to know what tor [ ]
Rooting Roborock S5 make it sing you some songs A few words on roborock and robots and what rooting is. Roborock is a sub brand of Xiaomi, manufacturer of various pieces of equipment and most notably known for its smartphones. Roborock S5 is the older generation of vacuum cleaning robots (I think s6/t6 is [ ]
OpenWRT makes routers on steroids OpenWrt is a linux distribution that lacks most of the desktop software and programs that require such functionality. This is normal because it mainly targets devices without video output which are used for networking. Such devices can be dedicated computers for routing or these plastic covered routers everybody should know [ ]
Recording your retro games with Rpi 3b+ it s possible To record retro games playback videos on raspberry pi we would need a couple of things neatly set up and running. First of all, a working raspberry pi 3 micro computer with suitable peripherals is a must. Custom build of ffmpeg would bring some more [ ]
TCP Congestion Control often a very overlooked networking setting Gigabit internet connection (let alone 2gbit or 10gbit) although a trivial reality for many is also a distant dream for others. Anyway, not all devices and all places are capable of being neatly hardwired to a top-notch gigabit fibre channel connection. Wifi and 100mbit connections [ ]
Lutris playing games on linux nicely Linux ecosystem has always been known as a very robust solution for server oriented tasks. Since 2005 its desktop capabilities have been constantly improving. To some people linux as a desktop in 2019 still sounds atrocious but also there are many individuals who have the time, the brain [ ]
NGINX got you web served There are different webservers that exist but when we talk about linux web servers the most common ones are just two Apache and NGINX. Apache is somehow a tad easier to use than nginx, while nginx in some scenarios can show a tad better performance. It s a matter [ ]
Raspberry Pi fw updating Firmware updates are not a mandatory step in system administration. They however might contain improved or fixed broken functionality, even added new functionality or the so beloved security patches etc. In the case of Raspberry Pi the firmware is made of not yet fully upstreamed linux kernel and closed source binary [ ]
WpScan useful tool for security audit of WordPress WPScan is a very good tool for checking any WordPress website for known vulnerabilities. The good fellas behind the project even made a wordpress plugin called WPScan WordPress plugin which can regularly scan you wordpress website for know exploits and thus let the site owner take [ ]
NGINX hardening explained very briefly Focus on securing a very tiny part of the operating system e.g. the webserver assumes we ve already taken good care of network and OS level security measures. With that in mind let s try to split nginx hardening into three logical parts. Order is not important. First of the three [ ]
Ping new content at public services WordPress is an excellent content management system (CMS). Among other things it s also a very popular blogging platform. Setting a blog website with WordPress is considered a relatively easy common task. Unfortunately, while we publish posts we tend to edit them , revise them, safe them or start over. [ ]