Happy One Year Birthday, Threads! We're Sorry You Failed
Threads was supposed to be a Twitter killer. It wasn't.
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Need a Cheap, Cheap Nvidia GPU Rental? Here are the Cheapest GPU Rental Spots!
Need a cheap GPU? Well my friend, those don't exist. But if you want the cheapest possible GPU, we have some leads for you.
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"I Married My AI! We Met on Tinder AI! Pictures!!! ": We Need to Talk About the Exploding World of AI Girlfriends
People are romancing and marrying AI girlfriends and boyfriends. We're starting a series on this emerging - dare we say exploding - phenomenon.
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ColoCrossing Expands into Dublin, Ireland!
Leathnaíonn ColoCrossing isteach i mBaile Átha Cliath, Éire! OK, I don't actually speak Gaelic, but that's Google does and that is how you say ""ColoCrossing into Dublin, Ireland" in the Irish language. Let's dive in and learn more about their expansion!
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Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option
If you want to run AI, you need a bunch of high-end Nvidia GPUs, right? There's actually an alternative that is about half the price.
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Snapshots vs Backups Explained, And Why You Need Both in Your Life
It's a common misconception in the hosting industry that snapshots and backups are interchangeable terms. However, this is not the case: snapshots are NOT equal to backups! While both snapshots and backups serve to protect data, they differ in some key ways that are important to understand.
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A Fun Scenario for Your Virtual AI Girlfriends
Have a virtual AI girlfriend? Here's something fun to try. A teaser for our upcoming series on the explosion of AI companions.
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Is SolusVM V2 Suitable to Use in 2024? Latest Updates and Ongoing Improvements
Back in our initial review of SolusVM 2.0 in late 2022, we at RackNerd felt that SolusVM V2 was not capable of handling production environments. Since then, they have fixed those concerns and implemented many fixes to the platform. Read on to see whether SolusVM 2.0 is ready for prime time...
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Let's Try BSD, Part 7 of 7: Conclusions About FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here's a summary of my experiments with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 6 of 7: Jump Into the Unknown With Me As I Install DragonFlyBSD!
DragonFlyBSD was a bit frustrating for me.
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Bored of the MIT and GPL Licenses? Switch From That Lame Old Legalese to One of These 10 Awesome Licenses!
The GNU GPL, BSD license, MIT...those are so last century. Today we have many other cool licenses to use and you should definitely switch all your code to one of these.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 5 of 7: Setting Up Nginx + Wordpress on OpenBSD! Almost!
Now it's time to look at OpenBSD, the security-focused BSD. We have quite a time getting things going and learn a lot along the way.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 4 of 7: NetBSD, the BSD That Runs on Your Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Last time we looked at FreeBSD. Now we're onto NetBSD. It wasn't a pleasant experience.
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The Time a Hard Drive Manufacturer Shipped Actual Bricks Instead of Drives. Bricks as in Masonry, Folks.
Miniscribe, a hard drive maker who flourished in the 1980s, once ran into serious inventory problems. And since a masonry brick is about the same size and weight of a hard drive from that era...
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Let's Try BSD, Part 3 of 7: FreeBSD, the Power to Serve
We're continuing our journey through the BSD universe and today we're trying out FreeBSD. Does it have "The Power to Serve"?
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Let's Try BSD, Part 2 of 7: How I Setup for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here the Vultr VM I'm using for these BSD tryouts.
Read MoreLet's Try BSD, Part 1 of 7: Introduction (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD)
In this series, I'll be trying out each of the four major BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD), including install, configuration, and web serving. We're paying a visit to the weird cousins from the other continent, and we'll have some fun exploring the OTHER free operating systems.
Read MoreShirley: My Quest to Create a Truly Useful AI Personal Assistant (Self-Hosted ChatGPT + Long Term Memory + RAG)
I'm on a quest to create the perfect AI-powered personal assistant. We're closer than I thought, but still have a ways to go.
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Apple Intelligence is Free: You Are Not the Product, You're the Currency
OpenAI is thrilled to get a new trove of Apple data to train on. Except of course, they promise, cross their hearts and hope to die, stick a needle in their eye that this won't happen.
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LowEndBox Album Drop: "Shawty Got LowEnd" Released!
LowEndBox's first album, "Shawty Got LowEnd" has been released! Likes to all 22 tracks with lyrics and insider notes!
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Google's Hamina Datacenter is Captain Planet's Fetish and is Growing Massively
Google's Hamina, Finland datacenter is a pioneering green datacenter, leveraging the chilly Gulf of Finland waters to keep it cool without climate-intensive chillers. Let's take a quick look at this datacenter now that Google has announced that they're making a substantial new investment into this former paper mill.
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The Best Read of the Year: Situational Awareness
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former safety researcher at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has published a stunning series of articles forecasting Artificial Generalized Intelligence (AGI) - followed very shortly by Arficial Generalized Superintelligence (ASI) by 2027.
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So What do I Run On? Raindog308's LowEnd Empire and Preferred LowEnd Provider List
I like to host with the best, and my LowEnd empire is a star-studded cavalcade of great LowEnd providers. Who are you hosting with these days?
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What's On Tap For June Here at LowEndBox? A Walk on the Wild Side
Later this month we're doing a 7-part series on BSD. Here's a quick preview.
Read MoreLet's Catch You Up on the M&A Drama in the LowEnd Community
Both Hostaris and IKIHOST were acquired in the last few days as M&A fever sweeps through the LowEnd community.
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OpenAI Asks Sam Altman to Lie to Them About Safety and He Will Happily Oblige
The OpenAI board has asked a fox to guard their henhouse. What could go wrong?
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SHOTS FIRED: MailChannels vs MailBaby War Erupts on LowEndTalk
"Have you noticed MailBaby's service quality declining recently? That's because they stopped using MailChannels to send emails their own platform couldn't handle." And so it began.
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The Scarlett Johansson Debacle: Why Sam Altman Fumbled This So Badly
We've all read about how that ChatGPT voice sounds "uncannily" like ScarJo. That isn't an accident, and OpenAI has inflamed the artistic community by continuing to focus on the shiny instead of the safe.
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