I don’t pay for them yet, just use the free version for my phone, but Mistral AI seems like and ethical company.

They run a a more lightweight and environmentally friendly model and think they even open-source/weight their models too. I think like 56B parameters instead of like 600b that open ai and antrhopic probably use.

Being a smaller model it’s not as powerful as the big ones, but it’s pretty good!

The cool thing about lemmy is that you can download your data as a JSON file. I think you could upload that to any LLM chat bot and they may be able to do something similar

Not a serious one, but my hot take is that helping people move is fun!

Alot of people complain about it, but think about it. You get to spend quality time with friends or family, get a little exercise, teamwork, and usually at the end of the day you get to share a well-earned meal together

Yep for setting up the achor. You can probably get away with less, especially if there are a lot a trees near the top where tou set the anchor. But it all adds up eventually $30 here, $100 here…

Brave is decent! I struggles with looking g for smaller local results sometimes. Like you really have to specify the town/cities for small businesses and stuff. Which I suppose is good. That probably means it’s not creeping on your location constantly

Seriously though, thanks to all the FOSS developers out there. I try to donate $5 to $20 where I can, but I k ow that far from what they all deserve!

No, bouldering is pretty cheap! Like shoes, chalk, and a $200 mat and you’re good to go!

It’s all the caribiners ropes, nuts, slings, and cams that add up for outdoor top rope

I bet you could! The interface and literally be what ever you want with FPGAs. You’d just have to keep things organized and program them one at a time I think

I think I’ve heard that they can running LLMs!

My membership is like $70.

I think I added up all my gear a like 4 years ago and it was like $1200 for outdoor bouldering and top rope mainly. I think I’m going the have to retire my harness and ropes this year so that will be another ~$250 or so “maintenance cost”

I have one of the newer Ender 3 V3 SE models. It’s pretty good actually! Very rarely have to tinker with it unlike on the older models like my Ender 3 Pro

I am also kinda new, but it seems like it leans towards multiple accounts. Some lemmy instances don’t federate, so I have two.

And then it seems like there is a alot of style and content overlapp between pixelfed and mastadon. So I just have a pixelfed account and follow a few folks from Mastond there.

It would be weird to see pixel fed type posts on my lemmy feeds, but I guess that is just how am using it so far

What are tankies?

I also have a 5060 (ti) with 16GB of RAM. I tend to use GPT-OSS:20B or Qwen3:14B with a context of ~30k. I have custom system prompt for my style of reponse I like on open web ui. That takes up about 14GB of my 16GB VRAM

But yeah it is slower and not as “smart” as the cloud based models, but I think the inconvenience of the speed and having to fact check/test code is worth the privacy and environmental trade offs

That I why I like small, specialized, locally hosted AI. Runs acceptably fast and quite on my gaming PC, it’s private, and I can give it knowledge is small doses in specific topics and projects.

I am also quite new to lemmy. Is there anything like cross posting? Otherwise, maybe you could link your commonity in the comment section of a relevant post