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Vicariously Living said:
I use Windows 10 and I have this program, FileConverter, installed that embeds into the right-click properties menu that can convert images to different formats.
You can alter compression and quality settings and the like.
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I have been using this for a while now since you suggested it and it's been great. Definitely endorsing it too.
 
Hey, im looking for an clipboard manager alternative to the default windows 10. I know the existence of Ditto but for me it just doesnt look pretty enough. Thank you in advance
 
Fairly autistic request but does anybody have a recommendation for an android pink/brown noise app that automatically stops playback when I disconnect a bluetooth device instead of continuing to play in my pocket and then jumpscaring me when it connects to my car stereo please
 
dick brain said:
Fairly autistic request but does anybody have a recommendation for an android pink/brown noise app that automatically stops playback when I disconnect a bluetooth device instead of continuing to play in my pocket and then jumpscaring me when it connects to my car stereo please
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You can set up an automation with Tasker to stop playback on Bluetooth disconnect. I don't have a recommendation for a sleep noise app but I would recommend you just yt-dlp an mp3 rip of one of those 10 hours of sleep noise videos and save it to your phone and then set an automation to play it through something like AIMP between a certain timeframe when only connected to a specific Bluetooth device.
 
i think i've posted about this before but there's a crack/release group called jc141 that packages everything using dwarfs, which is a ridiculously efficient compression software that really saves on space. takes forever to compress/decompress but if you use the highest level it's great for long-term archiving shit you rarely use but might need someday. have compressed several dd images and saved about 1-2 TB of space on my drive.
 
The "everything" app is very useful if you are a disorganized retard like me who doesn't want to deal with Microsoft's jeet search engine.

type in whatever you are looking for It just works™
 
For a quick and easy way to change sounds on Windows to custom ones, I recommend Sound Manager. I used this to easily and instantly change the sounds on Windows 11 to Windows 7 ones with ease, when before, I just did it manually by finding some archive of old Windows sounds and changed them one by one, having to match up the names with each other which was annoying (I've been having problems changing sounds for some reason so this program made everything easier).
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It also has an option to restore the startup and shutdown sounds too.
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(I don't know if it fully restores them by itself since I'm also using this Windhawk mod that also restores logon, logoff, and shutdown sounds but I have it ticked just in case)
 
Niggergante said:
I've seen 50 indians post about their great new lightweight AI model and then neglect to note what the requirements are. Is there a miracle model that can feasibly run on a throwaway vm and have it network attached that doesn't suck?
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Well you should be more specific about what you are trying to do. But realistically no.
You can make api calls to openrouter though on the vm.
 
demiurgex said:
Well you should be more specific about what you are trying to do. But realistically no.
You can make api calls to openrouter though on the vm.
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The only major use for AI that I've had has been integrating Gemini into my discord bot to create shitposts as a character (a caveman, Gork from Warhammer 40k, and a pirate to name a few) and I'm wondering if I can cut Google out entirely and not need a 5090 to run a timely query.
 
Niggergante said:
The only major use for AI that I've had has been integrating Gemini into my discord bot to create shitposts as a character (a caveman, Gork from Warhammer 40k, and a pirate to name a few) and I'm wondering if I can cut Google out entirely and not need a 5090 to run a timely query.
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It's almost certainly not worth self hosting llm inference unless you're dealing with model censorship, you are concerned about your data privacy, you don't have internet, or you are trying to learn. That being said there are probably small models that could do that pretty well. Maybe some kind of rp finetune of something, or maybe that isn't even needed. I don't know, you'd have to experiment. When it comes to speed and quality it's completely tied to your hardware capabilities.

Earlier you said they don't mention the model requirements. That is dependent on the size of the model and if you are running it quantized (compressed) or not. Take qwen3.5-9B for example. Typically models are released in fp16 and a byte is 8bits so 9B params is ~18gb. For speed you want to fit that into your vram but you can offload into system ram, it will just be slower. Nobody runs the models unquantized though, so you might run qwen3.5-9B at 8bit quantization, which would lower the vram requirement to 9gb. But you do need to leave some memory for context.

You can go much lower but it does make the model a lot dumber past 4bit.

You'd go to huggingface to find these quantized models to download (e.g. https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF).

Also you have to know if the model is MoE architecture or Dense. MoE makes the above calculation completely different because the whole model doesn't have to be loaded into VRAM at once.
 
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Niggergante said:
I've seen 50 indians post about their great new lightweight AI model and then neglect to note what the requirements are. Is there a miracle model that can feasibly run on a throwaway vm and have it network attached that doesn't suck?
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Well that was your first clue ....
 
For some reason, VLC boots up very slowly (ad least on windows), like it takes 10 secs to play a video I want to watch, I tried MPV but I dislike the shortcut experience and sometimes I want to move with my mouse.

So I found and alternative that has my needs, SMPlayer.
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The interface/GUI might look like shit, but it has charm, recommended it if you want to ditch VLC for some reason, there's also Potplayer, however that's windows exclusive and proprietary.
 
NixOS (Linux Distro) - With many caveats
Pros
  • Once it works, it will work forever. Builds you make are saved so you can revert at any time
  • Built in shell tools, virtual machine for testing
  • 100% declaritive & deterministic build system
  • Customize anything and have it run the same on any machine
  • Can be really lightweight compared to other systemd distros
  • Excellent package manager with lots of software
  • Autismmog other Linux users up until Gentoo and Linux from Scratch
  • You can list it on your resumé, more tech companies including Amazon and Cloudflare (Kiwifarm's favorite!) are adopting it and looking for devs
  • Your system will be completely tailor made for you by you from the ground up
Cons
  • Huge learning curve, you need to learn a programming language to use the build system
  • Pain in the ass to set up if you have more niche or bleeding edge hardware
  • Takes a long time to get up and running. Not as long as Gentoo or a from scratch Arch install though
  • Co opted by trannies, even more so than other pieces of open source software
 
Stumbling7 said:
For some reason, VLC boots up very slowly (ad least on windows), like it takes 10 secs to play a video I want to watch, I tried MPV but I dislike the shortcut experience and sometimes I want to move with my mouse.

So I found and alternative that has my needs, SMPlayer.
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The interface/GUI might look like shit, but it has charm, recommended it if you want to ditch VLC for some reason, there's also Potplayer, however that's windows exclusive and proprietary.
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I use MPV for consistency between Linux and Windows, but Clsid2's fork of MPC-HC is the best video player on Windows. If I ever went back to using Windows only, I'd switch back to MPC-HC as well.
 
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