>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICE
Post build list or current specs including MONITOR: https://pcpartpicker.com/
Provide specific use cases (e.g. 4K editing, high FPS gaming)
State budget and COUNTRY or you will not be helped

>NEWS
RTX 5070 Ti released Feb. 20th; RTX 5070 to release on Mar. 5th.
R9 9950X3D - RX 9070 set to release in early March.
Asrock motherboards are frying AMD CPUs - https://archive.is/QuoZM

>12V-2x6
The chances of burning are much lower on newer batches of 40 series cards and 50 series due to an improved connector. Said connector can still melt if the cable is not seated fully and/or bent.

>Intel Raptor Lake / RPL Refresh
Instability reported with 13th and 14th gen, i5 K SKUs and above (incl non-K). Update BIOS and apply Intel Baseline settings. Avoid purchases.

>CASE
ATX: Lian Li O11D EVO XL, Antec Flux Pro, Torrent Fractal Design North XL

>CPUS
HTPC(4K60)/Web Browsing: i5 13400
Gaming: R7 9800X3D
Multicore: R9 9950X; budget: i5 13600K
>Avoid iGPU-less CPUs
>Existing AM4 board with an old chip? Bite the bullet and upgrade to AM5 instead of being bottlenecked by legacy hardware.

>GRAPHICS CARDS
1080p: RTX 3060 12 GB / 4070 Ti SUPER; driver overhead beta tester: Arc B580
1440p: RTX 5070 / 5070 Ti
2160p: RTX 5080 / 5090
Amateur production: RTX 3060 12GB, 4060 Ti 16GB, used 3090, used 4090, 5090

4k on DLSS performance looks better than 1080p DLAA / native = same performance, higher fidelity.

Avoid AMD GPUs like the plague. Spending ~50 dollars more for Nvidia's software suite alone is worth it.

>RAM
DDR4: Zen3/AM4 - 2x 16GB 3600 MT/s CL18; for locked "non-K" 12th/13th/LGA1700 - 2x 16GB 3200 MT/s CL16
DDR5: Zen4/AM5 - 2x 16GB 6000 MT/s CL30; for unlocked "K" 13th/14th/LGA1700 - 2x 16GB 6400MT/s CL32

>COOLERS
AIO: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 420
Tower: Noctua NH-D15 G2 / Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO

AIOs are recommended. The failure rates are extremely low and they last >3 years on top of being cheaper than good towers.

1/2

This.

Elon musk updated his profile picture day before Apple launch

/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>104424186 & >>104414999

►News
>(02/19) Microsoft releases 200M & 1.6B World and Human Action Model (WHAM): https://hf.co/microsoft/wham
>(02/19) PaliGemma 2 mix released: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-paligemma-2-mix
>(02/18) DeepSeek introduces Native Sparse Attention for ultra-fast long-context training and inference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11089
>(02/17) Human-centric HunyuanVideo finetune with img2vid support: https://github.com/SkyworkAI/SkyReels-V1

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/lmg-lazy-getting-started-guide
https://rentry.org/lmg-build-guides
https://rentry.org/IsolatedLinuxWebService
https://rentry.org/tldrhowtoquant

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
LiveBench: https://livebench.ai
Programming: https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html
Code Editing: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
Context Length: https://github.com/hsiehjackson/RULER
Japanese: https://hf.co/datasets/lmg-anon/vntl-leaderboard
Censorbench: https://codeberg.org/jts2323/censorbench
GPUs: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://hf.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler Visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm

Cucumber Linux Edition
Previous: >>104353317

So... what's the final verdict in the year of our Lord, 2025?

Is this still trannyware, or are we finally embracing the Rust meme? Is the white man's choice of programming language still C++, Python, and Go? Should I avoid Rust (trademark, btw)?

Previous Thread: >>104410828

Guide: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide

>UIs
Metastable: https://metastable.studio
SwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI
Forge: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge
reForge: https://github.com/Panchovix/stable-diffusion-webui-reForge
ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
InvokeAI: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

>Models, LoRAs, & Upscalers
https://civitai.com
https://tensor.art/
https://openmodeldb.info

>Cooking
https://github.com/Nerogar/OneTrainer
https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts/tree/sd3
https://github.com/derrian-distro/LoRA_Easy_Training_Scripts

>HunyuanVideo
Comfy: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-HunyuanVideoWrapper/
Windows: [ SEE https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/104197751/#104214003 ] https://rentry.org/crhcqq54
Training: https://github.com/kohya-ss/musubi-tuner | https://github.com/tdrussell/diffusion-pipe

>Flux
Forge: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge/discussions/1050
ComfyUI: https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/flux
DeDistilled: https://huggingface.co/TheYuriLover/flux-dev-de-distill-GGUF/tree/main

>Misc
Share Metadata: https://catbox.moe | https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
Img2Prompt: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fancyfeast/joy-caption-alpha-two
Archive: https://rentry.org/sdg-link
Samplers: https://stable-diffusion-art.com/samplers/
Digital Art Software: https://krita.org/en/
Txt2Img Plugin: https://kritaaidiffusion.com/
Collagebaker: https://rentry.org/yueessiz | https://www.befunky.com/create/collage/
Video Collagebaker: https://kdenlive.org/en/

>Neighbours
>>>/aco/csdg
>>>/b/degen
>>>/c/kdg
>>>/d/ddg
>>>/e/edg
>>>/h/hdg
>>>/trash/slop
>>>/vt/vtai

>Sexting Neighbour
>>>/g/lmg

>Maintain Thread Quality
https://rentry.org/debo

And today we're going to be installing Microhard Wangblows 2002 on this 1988 Sony NEWS Workstation, with 12 TB of SSDs, and a Quadro M6000

trad edition

previous: >>104333519

READ THE WIKI! & help by contributing:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Home_server

/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/PFsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.

>What software should I run?
Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Emby/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, Ampache/Navidrome to replace Spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.

>Why should I have a home server?
De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your tech skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.

>Links & resources
Cool stuff to host: https://gitlab.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://reddit.com/r/datahoarder
https://www.labgopher.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/index
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Features
ARM-based SBCs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGaVu0sPBEy5GgLM8N-CvHB2FESdlfBOdQKqLziJLhQ
Low-power x86 systems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv_NCI
SFF cases https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AddRvGWJ_f4B6UC7_IftDiVudVc8CJ8sxLUqlxVsCz4/
Cheap disks: https://shucks.top/ https://diskprices.com/
PCIE info: https://files.catbox.moe/id6o0n.pdf
>i226-V NICs are bad for servers
>For more SATA ports, use PCIe SAS HBAs in IT mode
WiFi fixing: pastebin.com/raw/vXJ2PZxn
Cockpit is nice for remote administration

Remember:
RAID protects you from DOWNTIME
BACKUPS protect you from DATA LOSS

I always see people seething about Windows 11 and it just confuses me because they're treating an OS like a lolcow. Almost all the time these people don't seem to realize they can just turn off Copilot, remove the ugly search bar and customize it to their liking. The only actual flaw of Windows 11 in my opinion, is that there are technically two context menus for Explorer, but even this isn't that big a deal because you don't need Explorer to create shortcuts.

>But it's, like, slower or something
Is it? Outside of cherrypicked webms this is such a weird thing to say because I'm on a 10 year old laptop and Windows 11 still boots objectively faster than Windows 10.

>The taskbar is, like, annoying or something
You can literally just change it to be how you want it, heaven forbid setting it to auto-hide if you don't actually use it that much

>Windows Key search is useless and prioritizes Internet instead of system
So... Just download Everything? Pin things to the start menu?? Learn how to navigate your own computer like a regular person???

>It takes more clicks to accomplish the same tasks
And yet Windows 11 was the OS that made me start to actually learn hotkeys. Curious!