I’d love to put a custom OS on mine, even if it tripped the Knox fuse (which disables the Samsung Pay NFC option). The issue I have is that no CFW allows / guarantees compatible VoLTE…and without that, phones don’t really work on Australian networks. Have to have 4G + white listed VoLTE.

Its a mess down here.

Ironically, my Duoquin F21 pro works perfectly. How they got white listed I have no idea

Ah; as I recall, it’s because they polled users and there was an overwhelming “yes please”, based on Proton’s privacy stance.

Given proton is hosted in EU, they’re likely quite serious about GDPR and zero data retention.

Lumo is interesting. Architecturally I mean, as a LLM enjoyer. I played around with it a bit, and stole a few ideas from them when I jury rigged my system. Having said that, you could get a ton more with $10 on OpenRouter. Hell, the free models on there are better than lumo and you can choose to only use privacy respecting providers.

Rinzler…what have you become?

Additionally, in windows (linux too?) one could use Moonlight / Sunshine to compute on the GPU and stream to secondary device (either directly, like say to a Chromecast, or via the iGPU to their monitor). Latency is quite small in most circumstances, and allows for some interesting tricks (eg: server GPUs allow you to split GPU into multiple “mini-gpus” - essentially, with the right card, you could host two+ entirely different, concurrent instances of GTA V on one machine, via one physical GPU).

A bit hacky, but it works.

Source: I bought a Tesla P4 for $100 and stuck it in a 1L case.

GPU goes brrr

You had me at horded.

You. Had. Me. At. Horded.

Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact?

It warms the cockles of my heart that I renamed my self hosted LLM’s deep thinking mode to Mentats. For shits and giggles, I made it append every “deep thinking” conclusion it makes with [ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!].

It’s the simple things, really.

Lots to try here

https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/1p431ec/winners_of_the_best_freeware_and_retail_fall_2025/

NPUs yes, TPUs no (or not yet). Rumour has it that Hailo is meant to be releasing a plug in NPU “soon” that accelerates LLM.

I’m still sanguine that 1.58 BITNET models take off. Those could plausibly run at good clip on existing CPUs, no GPU needed.

Super basic medium article for those not in know

https://medium.com/@kondwani0099/reimagining-ai-efficiency-a-practical-guide-to-using-bitnets-1-bit-llm-on-cpus-without-ef804d3fb875

Necessity spite is usually a good driver…though given BITNET is Microsoft IP…ehh…I won’t hold my breath for too long. Still waiting for their 70B model to drop… maybe this year…