Disaster

OWui has a search module which can be enabled. For me, running it entirely offline is more or less the draw. I think it also supports RAG search, although I don't know how "good" it is.. mostly I was just after a little magic box to play with.

Now, if only enterprise glass GPU's weren't so power hungry and expensive..

Maybe real estate?

"Wait.. did you just eat both loaves at once??!"

I tried to get this up and running back on my K6-2, unfortunately I couldn't work out how to get the X server running with my 3Dlabs FireGL Pro card at the time.

I know absolutely nothing beyond the lego-brick level of building and watercooling machines. No EE chops whatsoever... but this stuff is so interesting to me and maybe one day, cost and space no object, having a palatial garage or workshop to muck around in... Just knowing it's possible really is the half of it.

Apparently it IS possible to make IC's at home, obviously nothing approaching 5nm transistor gates and therefore the equivalent of lego blocks to precision machined parts... but anyways:

(apologies for the YT link.. I'd much rather link a service that isn't totally enshittified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0

Reminiscent of Ulysses 31

Yep. My paycheck has sadly not scaled in a similar manner :(

Will I even be able to afford one? Still rocking a Radeon VII here..

I can't even find a decent PCIE USB/Thunderbolt card (one that support VFIO would be nice and actually has a Linux kernel driver, so ASM and Renesas are both out..)

I believe it's a little more sinister than that. There is less education around these issues because many services have adopted a highly polished, "Walled-Garden" approach to their presentation. This keeps people who've grown up with the concepts in their walled garden loyal to that specific service, and makes it difficult for people to dig under the hood and work out how things really function without the sugar coating. They get irritated quickly because they're used to everything "Just working" and don't have experience on more open systems.

Therefore, they would like there to be no need for tech education unless you plan on a professional career as a tech.

As long as ownserhip don't get carried away with enshittification chasing next quarter's finance call and drive users away by annoying them into putting the extra effort in to learning about alternatives, they could keep it that way forever.

There's also the term Xennials , which is 1977-1983.