hendrik

Can’t you somehow convert the virtual harddisks of your VMs from vhd or whatever it is to qcow2 and start them on the new hypervisor? I mean that’s pretty much the abstraction, virtualization is made for. I’ve never done it for Windows, though. I believe the “qemu-img” package has tools to convert disk images. It’ll obviously need quite some temporary storage. And the VM configs / networking to be recreated on Proxmox.

Empathy and availability are great. Listen to them, respect their struggles growing up. I don’t think that necessarily means being strict/authoritative or lenient, for me it means more feeling respected as a person. And a sane, straightforward way to deal with mistakes. Because we all make mistakes. Especially while learning and growing up.

And I’d say shared memories are awesome. Whatever that means for you. Go on a Canoe trip, teach them how to fix their bike, do woodworks, drill a hole into the wall or bake a cake.

I think money is the major factor which does the gate-keeping. Let’s say I’m not okay with the other (commercial) models out there. What they do and don’t do, their tone and political bias. Like Elon Musk claims… Now I’m gonna need some 6-digit sum of $$$ to train my own model. And a couple of thousand wage-slaves in a poor country to curate datasets for me, do RLFH. And that’s the real kicker. Musk can do it easily. But I wouldn’t know where to get that kind of money. And it’s prohibitively expensive for community projects. And even large independent organizations like universities struggle to do AI research on the same level as OpenAI, Anthropic, X, Meta, the Chinese, … do it.

I think even if we changed copyright, piled up large, state-of-the-art public datasets, forced them to release the weights, we’d still be in a similar situation as of today. Where we get some breadcrumbs tossed by someone. We can choose whose breadcrumbs we pick. And we can put some topping on it. But it’s not really emancipating in the same way copyleft works for software.

I think it really depends on what you’re concerned with. Open-weight models provide you with a bit more control. For example you won’t leak all your private information to some mega-corporation. But they still centralize power, have a big impact on the environment, labour market… They also hallucinate and flood the internet with misinformation, bots and made-up stuff… It’ll also still be tuned to fit someone’s agenda. Whether that’s the bias and morals Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman likes to push down on the world. Or a Chinese “startup” attached to some Chinese government sponsored tech company. You pick your poison…

I don’t think there’s a noteworthy chance this will end up as some decentralized thing. It’ll always be researched, trained and designed by whoever is able to afford those kinds of salaries and datacenters. Which is going to be the elites, billionaires, largest companies and governments.

Yeah, I think the correct sticker on a PSU would be something like 80 Plus Ruby?! Everything else comes with 80+% efficiency at 20% rated load. Which is 200W for a 1000W PSU. And there’s no guarantee on what happens below that, so it might very well be utter garbage at a home server power draw of 20-30W.

You never know without looking up the datasheets. Though, back when I built my home server/NAS, I failed to find a good one. I got a PicoPSU and a 12V power brick instead. Not sure if that’s still a thing. But I remember it was a lot of work to find proper and efficient components. And it doesn’t make any sense to put in all the effort (and money) and then burn all the saved energy, and then some more, in an average PSU.

Some MiniPCs, NUCs and even computers also come with fairly efficient power supplies.

I got a power-efficient mainboard and PSU. I think that’ll be the lion’s share. And I don’t have any unnecessary stuff like a GPU or extra stuff connected.

I ran powertop and adopted the recommendations to set the various buses, peripherals and devices into powersave mode. That does a few Watts here and there. CPU of course is also allowed to save power when idle.

And then I made the harddisks spin down after 40min of not being used. Or something like that. So they’ll automatically spin down at night and when I’m not using them. As spinning hdds consume quite a lot of power if you have multiple of them and compare it to the 15-20W or so the rest of the computer uses. The operating system is on a SSD.