My meagre experience and knowledge of the AI seems to have garnered the below two conclusions: 1: You need powerful hardware2: You need to run a version of Deepseek that’s better than 1.5b No doy, right? That’s exactly what every other youtube video I have watched recommends. I have found…
Deepseek – Why is an orange called an orange?
Okay, so I’m trying to figure out why we call an orange an orange. It’s kind of a straightforwardquestion, but maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. Let me start by thinking about where orangescome from. They’re typically from China, right? I remember hearing that they were originally…
AI Flexing
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Deepseek, My Rabbithole Journey
Everyone is talking about Deepseek AI. I have a Minisforum MS01, and it’s running Proxmox. Seems like a no-brainer? Right? Hell yeah son let’s do this! So, here’s the real-quick version: Have a computerWipe whatever’s on there and install ProxmoxDownload the Ubuntu Server ISO to your ProxmoxCreate a VM using…
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UNAS Pro – Allow Execution of .EXE Files
Now this is a weird one, and I’ll drop a couple of links to explain. It all started here, when I wanted to move my Steam library over to my UNAS Pro, because, well, it’s got a lot of space and 10GB connectivity to my main gaming machine. So running…
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10GB Cabling
I have previously used a hodge-podge of fibre cabling, DAC cabling, odds and ends of transceivers and it’s all just been a mess. Right now, I am using the 10Gtek 10GB SFP+ cables and they are working great. No longer the case that I am mixing and matching one with…
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UNAS Pro. Here we go!
Okay, so I left this till last because I have a lot to say. Also, it’s on the bottom of the rack so, ehm, chronology. My UP (Im not typing that over and over) is populated with 7x 4TB Ironwolf drives. I think some might be pro’s but for the…
Storage
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8TB WD Elements Shuck!
This was my first shuck. My UNAS Pro currently houses around 5.25TB of data, and I already have a rackmount Synology RS812 that has a backup of most of it. I was using this drive in it’s USB housing for a few years now, but I have always wondered about…
Etherlighting. A Quick Aside.
Really I have just been thinking about the future. I love tech, I love building tech, I love using tech, I really enjoy pushing tech to the limits of what it can do and reaping the rewards that it brings. Right now the new switches and hardware have ‘etherlighting’, it’s…
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UniFi Switch 16 PoE
This is the main switch for my stack. The main usage for this switch is the PoE powering of my G5 Turret camera and the U7 Pro access point. I also have a G3 Flex camera powered by a Unifi Device Bridge, and one of the USB only powered (and…
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UNAS Pro Transfer Speeds To Windows C:
Future Unifiguy here, this was obviously copying to my C: on Windows. When I transfer to my secondary drive NVMe, there’s a lot less ups and downs with transfer speeds. I’m going to leave this here just to note how stupid I am, but if anyone has these issues then…