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- timochka@lemmy.ziptoEurope@feddit.org•Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?English5·23 days ago
Air conditioners are heat pumps.
Air-to-Air heatpumps (i.e. AC) are trivial to install in apartments (drill one inch hole in wall, mount compressor on one side and head unit on other, done,) and make for very efficient heating in winter just as much as they can be used for cooling in summer.
- timochka@lemmy.ziptoEurope@feddit.org•Putin threatens Armenia with "Ukrainian scenario" over its EU integration aimsEnglish32·2 months ago
One oresumes he’s trying to appeal to their sense of pity. “Won’t somebody think of the poor, dead, orks?”
- timochka@lemmy.ziptoEurope@feddit.org•Europe's heatwave in pictures, from Milan's Duomo to the crowded beaches of southern EnglandEnglish3·2 months ago
To be fair, way way before anyone was remotely concerned about climate change, I worked at the Press Association in the UK - where, stereotypically enough, the IT department was relegated to the basement next to the PA Photos wire-photo department (IT in the basement because, well, normal - photos in the basement because photo archives with glass negatives literally weigh tonnes.)
Anyway, the arrival of the first picture of people (ideally attractive female students) ‘cooling off’ in a fountain, or the annual “look, it’s a beach, and there are people (ideally attractive, female) on it” photo was practically the first sign of Spring. Up there with the inevitable “students (ideally attractive and female) celebrating their A-Level results” photos; markers of the passing year that are as reliable and timeless as the blooming of snowdrops or the falling of leaves.
Which is not to say that we haven’t monumentally fucked the climate. But wire-photo cliches are not really that compelling as evidence.
Word of advice - don’t scavenge old /server/ hardware if you plan to put GPUs in - unless you really like heat and noise. Those machines from the likes of HP will take one look at a consumer graphics card in a PCI slot and decide they need to run all the fans at 100% to ward off evil spirits. Not to mention just the general ballache of proprietary PCI riser cards, PCI power cables, etc. etc.
You’re definitely better off with taking someone’s old gaming rig off their hands.
In terms of specs - value VRAM above everything else. A slow, old 3000 series card with 24GB of VRAM is much more useful than a brand new 5000 with 16GB. If you can find old RTX3090 24GB, they’re kinda ideal.
The one thing I will say for modern cards though is that they’re much better for power efficiency - and in particular idle power (which is important if you’re running the thing always on.) For my main LLM machine I have two RTX5060Ti (32GB total), which at the time was the sweet spot for price/performance/power, and it’s very nice that they idle around 3 or 4 watts. I bought them before the world went crazy and prices went mad though, so they may not be the sweet spot any more.
One you’re in 32GB VRAM type territory, you can run really really good dense models like Qwen-3.6-27b at a decent quant, decent context size, and good performance for things like coding, or bigger MoE models for more general use (particularly then if you have good CPU and regular RAM for offloading to CPU. For use as an assistant (i.e. not an OpenClaw fully automated slop machine,) I use 3.6-27b as a daily driver in Claude Code, and basically never use Sonnet.
Probably because it is not confirmed yet? The first drone was definitively confirmed to be a Russian Shahed, the second drone I’m not sure an announcement has been made yet (It was only shot down a few hours ago.)
I don’t think it requires a genius to guess, but it’s not really the job of news to promulgate guesses as facts. Not outside the US, anyway.