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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: November 30, 2024, 03:59 AM »

Thanks for mentioning it, Shades. 

I don't need or want thanks/praise every time I post here, as that would just clutter this thread. But it is nice to have feedback every so often so I know it's worth my time to keep going and I'm not just posting to the void. 😅

There have been a few times I've considered stopping posting to this thread because I wasn't sure my posts were useful to anyone.

This is a perfect example of where being able to add "reactions" or likes to posts would be a useful forum feature. That way people could signal appreciation without triggering email notifications to others who are subscribed to this thread for new posts about game giveaways.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: November 29, 2024, 01:39 PM »

Oaken is free on GOG for the next couple of days:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/oaken

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Community Giveaways / Re: Bundle Leftovers: Humble Bundle 2K Megahits

« on: November 16, 2024, 05:07 PM »

I'm locking this thread now that all keys have been claimed.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Bundle Leftovers: Humble Bundle 2K Megahits

« on: November 16, 2024, 03:26 AM »

PM sent with details.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: November 15, 2024, 06:10 PM »

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2, it's free (to keep) on Steam if you claim it in the next few days.

https://store.steamp.../app/220/HalfLife_2/

It has been updated to include various quality of life improvements, and also the two sequels Episode One and Episode Two are now included with the game and accessible from the main menu.

More details about the update can be found on the Half Life website.



And also other games in the series are on sale.

https://store.steamp.../franchise_half-life

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: November 11, 2024, 03:07 PM »

Spirit of the North is free on Fanatical (as a Steam key) for the next few days.

https://www.fanatica.../spirit-of-the-north

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: October 31, 2024, 11:47 AM »

Return of the Phantom is free on GOG for the next 3 days.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 27, 2024, 03:32 PM »

What model did you use for this?

-KynloStephen66515 (October 27, 2024, 08:20 AM)

When I created my account it asked me what I was interested in and I selected the option that appeared to be more about coding and development. It then suggested (and I accepted) a bunch of "assistants" which I assumed it would query all of or pick the best one for me based on my question. So I just started typing away (in the "Just Chat" section).

Looking more into it, it seems to have created a variety of "assistants" for me on various topics but they are all set to use gpt-4o-mini, except for one which is set to use gpt-3.5-turbo-16k.

I'll try adjusting or creating one using Claude and see if that gives better results, but judging on your answer, it still gives you incorrect information. As far as I can tell the onboard LED of the Pico W does not actually support (hardware) PWM, because it's controlled by the WiFi module instead of the RP2040. But there's a big enough knowledge gap for me that I may be wrong about that. Maybe the fact that I'm using Arduino IDE (which I think is just C or C++) rather than MicroPython makes a difference in what hardware features the libraries I'm including use.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 26, 2024, 05:55 PM »

Thanks Kynlo. While I was adding these to my bookmarks, I decided to try out LobeChat's hosted version. It went something like this (highly paraphrased):


Q: Does the onboard LED of the Raspberry Pi Pico W support PWM to adjust its brightness?

A: Yes, it does.

Q: Can you show me some example code that will fade the LED?

A: This code will do that for you.

[ 15 minutes trying to get the code to work ]

Q: The code isn't working. What might be wrong?

A: Try these troubleshooting steps.

[ 15 minutes trying all the troubleshooting steps ]

Q: Are you absolutely sure the onboard LED supports PWM?

A: My apologies. The onboard LED does not support PWM.

Q: Can you show me example code to simulate PWM to adjust the LED's brightness in software rather than hardware?

A: This code will do that for you.

[ It works! ]

Pretty helpful when it doesn't lead you on a wild goose chase with wrong information.


I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie made yet about a group of people with a robot/AI companion who all end up stuck in a cavern and they ask the robot/AI
to help them find a way out and it unintentionally states incorrect information as fact and based on that information (and future queries to the robot/AI that don't challenge the initial assumption) the humans travel through a treacherous path where many people are injured or die until finally someone asks "Are you sure this is the best course of action?" and then the robot/AI says "My apologies. We can just take the ladder near where we started."

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 24, 2024, 11:55 AM »

I forgot to thank you once again for being so helpful.

So thanks! I had no idea about most of those. I'll check them out.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 21, 2024, 03:21 AM »

I don't really have the budget for upgrading my PC. Maybe I should get a $15 microcontroller and play around with TinyML.

But that's not really an LLM, so I guess I'm better off just accessing some free tier of ChatGPT.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 18, 2024, 11:32 PM »

Hmmm... LM Studio won't work for me either. After poking around in the various tabs of the GUI it seems my CPU is the problem. 😭

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 18, 2024, 11:25 PM »

I forgot to mention I have 16 GB RAM in this machine.

I tried it on CPU, CUDA 11 and 12 and Vulkan and I get similar results for all of them in a form looking very much like this:

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1. 11012.227 s   Starting...←[2m2024-10-19T03:54:38.253368Z←[0m ←[33m WARN←[0m ←[2mllama_cpp_server::supervisor←[0m←[2m:←[0m ←[2mcrates\llama-cpp-server\src\supervisor.rs←[0m←[2m:←[0m←[2m98:←[0m llama-server <embedding> exited with status code -1073741795, args: `Command { std: "D:\\Apps\\tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc\\llama-server.exe" "-m" "C:\\Users\\Deozaan\\.tabby\\models\\TabbyML\\Nomic-Embed-Text\\ggml\\model.gguf" "--cont-batching" "--port" "30888" "-np" "1" "--log-disable" "--ctx-size" "4096" "-ngl" "9999" "--embedding" "--ubatch-size" "4096", kill_on_drop: true }`
2. ←[2m2024-10-19T03:54:38.253838Z←[0m ←[33m WARN←[0m ←[2mllama_cpp_server::supervisor←[0m←[2m:←[0m ←[2mcrates\llama-cpp-server\src\supervisor.rs←[0m←[2m:←[0m←[2m110:←[0m <embedding>: warning: not compiled with GPU offload support, --gpu-layers option will be ignored
3. ←[2m2024-10-19T03:54:38.255312Z←[0m ←[33m WARN←[0m ←[2mllama_cpp_server::supervisor←[0m←[2m:←[0m ←[2mcrates\llama-cpp-server\src\supervisor.rs←[0m←[2m:←[0m←[2m110:←[0m <embedding>: warning: see main README.md for information on enabling GPU BLAS support

I guess I'll try LM Studio next.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 18, 2024, 03:40 AM »

Sorry, I thought I posted more relevant details.

My machine is ancient. Core i7 2700K. GTX 670. 16 GB RAM. 👴

I installed the nVidia tools and it let me install Cuda 12.x but I don't know if my GPU supports that.

The command I'm trying to run is very slightly different from yours (StarCoder-1B instead of 3B), taken from the Windows Installation documentation:

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1. .\tabby.exe serve --model StarCoder-1B --chat-model Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct --device cuda

But after counting up for about 10 seconds it starts spitting out messages like the following every few seconds:

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1. 10.104 s   Starting...←[2m2024-10-18T08:32:25.331474Z←[0m ←[33m WARN←[0m ←[2mllama_cpp_server::supervisor←[0m←[2m:←[0m ←[2mcrates\llama-cpp-server\src\supervisor.rs←[0m←[2m:←[0m←[2m98:←[0m llama-server <embedding> exited with status code -1073741795, args: `Command { std: "D:\\Apps\\tabby_x86_64-windows-msvc-cuda122\\llama-server.exe" "-m" "C:\\Users\\Deozaan\\.tabby\\models\\TabbyML\\Nomic-Embed-Text\\ggml\\model.gguf" "--cont-batching" "--port" "30888" "-np" "1" "--log-disable" "--ctx-size" "4096" "-ngl" "9999" "--embedding" "--ubatch-size" "4096", kill_on_drop: true }

I left it running for about 2 hours and it just kept doing that.

More help would be appreciated.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: October 17, 2024, 05:06 AM »

I tried getting Tabby to work and it wouldn't start up. It said "Starting..." and then spit out warnings every 5 seconds or so, forever.

How are you running it?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: September 02, 2024, 06:04 PM »

Once Upon a Jester is free on GOG for the next 2 days:

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 06, 2024, 12:17 PM »

Are you interested in IDE based plugins (think GitHub Copilot), or standalone/web-verions (ChatGPT, etc)?

-KynloStephen66515 (August 03, 2024, 08:44 PM)

I haven't tried any IDE-based plugins. I've just used web versions.

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 03, 2024, 06:16 PM »

Well, if you want any suggestions for good tools, let me know as I have a list! (Unbiased and based off of personal experience with the tools in question) XD

-KynloStephen66515 (August 03, 2024, 06:09 AM)

I'm interested in seeing a list, because my experience has left me with the impression that AI models aren't yet fully baked, and rarely give me truly useful results.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Fanatical Mystery Bundle Leftovers

« on: July 23, 2024, 12:01 AM »

Is the game still available? Quite interested in Rising Hell.

-coolng (July 18, 2024, 09:29 AM)

Sent you a PM with the key.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: June 06, 2024, 12:10 PM »

If you have a subscription to Amazon Prime then Star Wars: Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) can be redeemed on GOG through Amazon Prime Gaming through the next ~30 days:

https://gaming.amazon.com/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: May 24, 2024, 09:49 PM »

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is free on Epic, Steam, and GOG.

https://www.gog.com/...ladius_relics_of_war
https://store.steamp...dius__Relics_of_War/
https://store.epicga...ladius-relics-of-war

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: May 10, 2024, 12:24 AM »

If you have a subscription to Amazon Prime then the following games can all be redeemed on GOG through Amazon Prime Gaming:

• LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Tomb Raider (2013) GotY
• Fallout 3: GotY

https://gaming.amazon.com/

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: May 05, 2024, 02:00 AM »

I finally found a kindred spirit, except this guy is much smarter than I am:

"I made a DIY gaming mouse because Logitech's mice keep BREAKING"

It's open source, too:
https://github.com/w...eya/DIY-Gaming-Mouse

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free web/cloud solution to monitor a webpage for changes?

« on: April 21, 2024, 06:27 PM »

You can also run your own: changedetection.io

Web Site Change Detection, Restock monitoring and notifications.

Detect website content changes and perform meaningful actions - trigger notifications via Discord, Email, Slack, Telegram, API calls and many more.

-4wd (March 23, 2024, 06:28 AM)

Combine the above with this:

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: April 20, 2024, 01:42 AM »

Anyone doing anything fun/interesting/useful with a Raspberry Pi 5? I realized today that I haven't really heard anything about the Pi 5 since they were officially announced.

I got rid of all my Pis (3 & 4) a couple years ago but I keep coming up with reasons to want another one. My problem in the past has always been that I would get the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi with some specific task in mind and then it turned out that the CPU wasn't powerful enough, or the I/O wasn't fast enough, or it didn't have enough RAM, etc., and then it just collected dust. So even though I think I'd like to get one again I'm hesitant because I don't want to spend the money buying the SBC and accessories and the time to set it up and tinker with it only for it to ultimately sit unused like all the others thus far.