Chinese sellers on ebay have been making sxm2 mezzanines that use standard slimsas connections for a while. They even go up to sxm4-5. I have dual nvlinked v100s with their giant 4u tower coolers, some arctic 92mm fans and PTM for the TIM and they never break 70c under load for my personal use.
They definitely aren’t the flashiest, but local LLMs have come a long way in a short time to the point where they are quite nice to work with.
honestly, systemd isn’t that bad. I’m finishing some free labs for the CompTIA Linux+ sysadmin course and learning how to compose bash scripts into services is going to be great for my homelab.
I completely ditched windows at home in early 2020 and used fedora until last year when I took the plunge into NixOS. I knew how to do things in Linux, but I wanted to understand the underlying system structure. NixOS helped pull back the veil a bit.
Using NixOS was when I finally felt like I started to understand Linux. I don’t think I could go back lol
If using Linux is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
That seems like a very balanced approach beyond what I was even considering; I like it.
The guys channel is full of mad science slapdash stuff to make things work that otherwise, just shouldn’t lol. I take that approach to my homelab (with some caveats, since I’m not trying to lose all my data lol), and just kind of throw things together with some minimal understanding of how they fit conceptually.
There’s a Canadian mechanic on YouTube and one of his sign-offs was “if you don’t fuck around, how will you ever find out?” Which does feel kind of philosophical to me lol
Idk if it counts but I work in the auto industry and regularly pop conservatives bubbles about how “great” Elongated Muskrat is.
I’ve never been so disappointed in myself lol
I appreciate the kind words! Until recently, my day job was CAD monkey. I wanted to consolidate the hardware I was cobbling together, found a cheap 8 GPU mining rig and some extra 2020 extrusions to play with.
The seller for the mezzanine said it followed the mATX mounting hole pattern, (it does but is ~75% in the width and doesn’t use all the points). I have a tendency to overthink designs and kind of stalled for a bit before finally taking the plunge and whipping up these struts. I used some brass heat set inserts to accept the standoffs and everything pretty much went right together lol
I am using PTM sheets and they idle at decent temps, though I did ziptie some high CFM fans behind them lol
eBay has some rad Chinese mezzanine boards for these guys too. Nvlink works and everything lol
Yeah I mean I don’t know the rest of the story I guess. Like, maybe there’s a perfectly good reason that they’re doing what they’re doing 🤷
Plus like, i might not mind 👀
I’d be worried looking might be interpreted as leering or being otherwise disrespectful.
I bet you used a keyboard, instead of a magnetic needle and a steady hand to code this too.
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For real though, nice work. 🎉
My favorite smell is also my favorite word; Petrichor. It’s the smell of the earth when it rains after an extended dry period.
From Wikipedia “from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) ‘rock’; or πέτρος (pétros) ‘stone’ and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr) ‘ichor’, the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.”
“the front fell off?!”
They’ve been temporarily removed for about a year now lol
It’s quite a ride lol. There’s a group of people on the level1techs forum trying to get mi250x OAM units working on similar hardware.
I made a post about my own lab earlier this year too: https://lemmy.world/post/47291115