Smokeydope

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You'll both have lots of time to get used to the idea. Sorry to hear that your daughter turned into a gold digger marrying out of financial convinence instead of love. Its kind of unsavory and understandable why its causing some cognitive dissonance. But well thats the kind of thing our society incentivises and she's an adult who can make her own choices. Its hard to judge too hard. Hope the husband is alright personality wise and even if this is dark to say, you can take some solice in that statistically speaking its probably not going to last too long and she will probably inherit some assets. If it all burns down it will be a hard but good lesson in not being with people just to extract value out of them.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Thanks for taking the time to look at my stuff and comment schmidt. Nice xq2 always a fun time rocking the good old cyclone/conneseur bowl and bag :)

I like bags for the experience. However its not a method I reach for often anymore. The vapor gets stale tasting quick by the time you get done filling a big bag a lot of the the terps and cannabinoid oil has been lost condensated back onto the inside of bag.

Then the bag itself gets a little stale tasting after a few uses affecting flavor even more. Then you have to buy more bags to replace stale dirty bag, and go through a process of redoing the balloon rubber bands holding the glass insert.

The glass orb offers the same kind of visual appeal of watching the vapor fill a thing to the point of milking it then ripping the dense vapor all at once. The difference is when it inevitably gets dirty inside you can just spray it down with alcohol and rinse with water at the sink.

The omega wand kits from ddave are game changers. I was unsatisfied with the stock cyclone /conesseuir bowl+ whip. I didn't like all the airflow that made the vapor feel whispy, I didnt like how big the bowls were which always cooked herb unevenly, I didnt like how high the herb sits above the heater which took minutes to fully extract anything. The stock EQ was mid easily beat out in power by a simple dynavap.

The omega wand and adapters turned it into a top tier one hitter rig. Think elbow packing with much better extraction able to get all the vapor from a bowl in a single hit. Think being able to milk a small bag the size of the orb using a tiny bit of herb stretching out your grinder of expensive ganja out crazy amounts.

The goo roo hookah mouthpiece is a really really nice luxury if you are a whip user. The teeny little glass mouthpieces sent by arizer never felt luxurious to use or pleasant hold in the hand. It was a very basic functional restricted airflow mouthpiece.

The goo-roo mouthpiece is an absolute unit of glass. It feels great to hold in the hand and hit out of. I like it a lot easy recommend to any eq/xq2 owner who likes the whip.

The ruby balls are the final piece of the puzzle for the ddave adapters. Adding the balls makes the entire bowl cook evenly all the way through. Every watt of power the EQ can consume gets put to use heating up the balls it literally puts all possible power into extracting the herb completely and quickly. I'm convinced the only way to get better extraction would be an actual ball vape with beefy PID and injection chamber eating hundreds of watts.

Someone's told me before after seeing my cleaning sesh it was too much work and I was better off just smoking lol. Well I figure its better to get the pieces gunked than my lungs. All the parts come together to realise my ideal extraction situation. The added maintenance is the trade off to maximizing performance kinda like a sports car.

Do I have problems with combusting the flower? Not anymore, but I used to. It required trial error and experience to dial in the right temps.

My perspective has always been that I want to extract all the vapor possible from flower. And the color of the herb tells you how much vapor is left to be extracted.

That means high temps and riding it right to the point just before combustion where the flower turns pitch black . My ideal extraction has the herb looking completely black cooked evenly all the way through.

Getting to that point with any arrangement of equipment takes experimentation to find ideal temp zones. During the experimentation phase combustion is likely, but after finding the sweet zone and some experience to lock it in theres basically no chance of combustion.

If you combust, dial it down 15 - 20 degrees f and try again. I settled in using the omega wands and cyclone/conesseuir bowl at 428F/220C/493.15K any point beyond that risk combustion if theres too much airflow.

Once I got ruby balls over the ceramic heater with ddave adapters, dialing in the temp became entirely a question of how many balls to add if I combusted I added 5-8 balls and tried again. Setting device to max and Covering the ceramic heater core with 1 layer of 3mm ruby is enough to eliminate combustion potential.

Anyways sorry for long 5 paragraph essay hope this helped inform you.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Since we are talking hypotheticals, an ideal scenario would be a nearly completely renewables approach where each household is its own self contained energy production center equippef with solar arrays, wind turbines, thermoelectric generators. Various means of production. And have either propane or diesel generator as a backup. You know your average overall watt-hour usage for the household and try to have enough battery capacity to satisfy it for a week or two of bad weather.

Most household electrical wiring is redone for DC transmission and all consumer appliances possible are run straight on DC for optimal efficency. Energy efficent heat pumps for cooling and heating. energy efficent cooking appliances like induction heaters. Electric cars that act as backup battery banks would be awesome.

Industrial zones would be much harder as you need huge solar panel or wind turbine arrays to get the megawatt and gigawatts needed to run a factory. Most factories are decades old running on the most energy ineffient assembly lines you can think of. A energy mandate that calculated and taxed total energy efficency compared to national average for factory size and the would be a start.

Humanity simply does not "stop" because we go through an energy crisis. We did fine enough before the industrial revoltion and renewables + energy efficent consumer devices have improved a bunch. The economy would tank and what renewable energy made would be a premium commodity and the system would adapt to use it best as possible. But things would go on.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I appreciate it thanks for taking a look. The setup took a lot of work and creative thinking over the year slowly understanding what was needed and sourcing the aftermarket parts to get it extracting real nice. The extremeq is an excellent desktop vape done dirty by its stock parts.

I prefer using the orb dry more I like watching the turbulent vapor swirls completely fill up the piece. I do use water in it too when in the mood for it.

Water is good when you are vaping a lot and need some moisture to not get a dry throat. But it gets murky, starts to taste bad and contributes to reclaim deposits forming on the inner glass I think. It filters out some of the plant oils you want in the vapor.

I was absolutely surprised at how much vapor was produced with such little herb. The middle bowl here Is the one used in the video like maybe .05-.1 g?

If I had put the big 18mm omega wand bowl in there it would have really milked up the glass quick lol.

This setup is a microdosing dream!

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! I added a video link to the description if you wanted to see it in action.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The glass orb is easy to clean, the pieces that insert into the vaporizer need cleaning from time to time. The metal omega wand extraction device works best with some melted beeswax covering it so it doesn't stick into the glass adapters it inserts into. It uses metal bowl screens which need cleaning.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for the reply! The glass orb doesn't take falls very well its a relatively fragile piece. However its cheap enough to replace from time to time.

The vaporizer itself requires no maintenance. The adapters and stuff inserted into it needs cleaning after awhile.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good attetion to detail. I have ruby balls directly above the heater so it behaves more like a ball vape. They balance things out while improving the extraction.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/trees@lemmy.world
 

The orb v3 from vgoodiez, Goo-Roo hookah hose, arizer extremeq desktop vape and omega wand from DDave.

Here's a YouTube video of it in action

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You are welcome. Im happy if my writings can inform a few people from time to time. Yes thats absolutely what it means if you read the fine print of ecosia they tell you how they collect your data including IP address+ search terms and share it with google and Microsoft's ad network to show you ads through ecosia. So your data is still coming back google and Microsoft to be sold to the highest bidder. Everyones gotta get a cut profititing off your data, except for you. At least a small bit of that profit goes to the trees I guess.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Here's my guide to alternative search engines that discusses all the different search engines and how they differ under the hood. I wrote it to be understandable to everyone not just tech nerds.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ads aren't a thing in my life. On the off day I have to visit someone who lives with ads and suffer through one or two I tough it out, or look at my phone, or do something different.

I don't watch live TV. I dont pay for any subscription services except phone service and internet data. I watch YouTube content that has the ads stripped out. I download youtube videos that get often rewatched to hard drive. For movies I buy DVD that can have the drm stripped out.

I play good video games preferably drm free (steam is the one service I can't really give up easy, but it has offline mode and the deck so praise gaben!). I read e-books that are drm free. I have a mp3 player downloaded with all my music drm free.

The better question is, why are you willing to live with ads at all? Assuming you are in control of your living situation and have the power change whats shown on tv or played through speakers.

Why would you tolerate being constantly bombarded with manipulative messaging by companies, political canpaigns, and all the other powerful groups who want to affect he masses for their benefit?

Why is it so hard just say no? To give up the forms of toxic entertainment delivery? Why can't you sacrifice ease and convinence and familiarity to regain some control overhow your attention is spent during free time?

If you like something, buy it and really take the steps to own it physically.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The digital manifestation of the ghost in the machine. It likes playing with the bits that line occupies when you aren't looking. Don't touch its line.

 

Hello there, I'm currently doing my first ever night of dispersed camping at a local national forest here in USA.

I plan to have this trip go two weeks, though I will be happy enough if I can make it to one without issue. After I'm done here I'll go sightseeing at a big state attraction that my parents always talked about.

The only camping I ever knew about was campgrounds where you pay money for a site or a cabin. I had no idea that dispersed camping was a thing.

In certain public lands you are allowed to just park off the road and camp out for a certain amount of time. Each place has their own rules and exceptions but its generally 2 weeks before you have to move a couple miles.

I'm essentially allowed to live here in nature free of charge for as long as I like. I just need to observe and respect the rules and limits of the state. The idea of doing this makes me feel a sense of freedom that I really needed in my life.

The van is pretty much converted out. Ive got a comfy bed. Ive got enough solar panel power for charging devices, keeping lights on, and coffee in the morning (theoretically). Ive got propane heating. Combine that with food, water, clothes, and cleaning supplies to make for the bare minimum of a comfy existance.

Despite all that, I'm out of my comfort zone. All the preparation in the world couldn't offset this feeling I have right now. The feeling of being in an unfamiliar new place and unsure if I'll be okay. Perhaps a real adventure requires at least a dash of uncertainty.

Its dark and quiet in a way I'm not used to. Stillness is a little unsettling when youre used to noise and commotion. I'm also right off a busy ish road so theres a car passing every now and again which is a little noisy but not unwelcome.

If something does go wrong I'm parked in a way that I can just turn the key and go. I need to clear the way to driver seat a little better currently blocked by food bag. All my windows are covered well so nobody can really peek at me. Not that I think anyone is out here to peek in.

I realize now that my sneakers arent exactly meant for off path forest exploration. I will get some good boots for the next trip. Im an overthinking planner type person so its fustrating to forget things like this. But before I left I told myself that I wasn't going to be able to think of every detail, and to just try my best and learn from the experience. I'm going to make mistakes and learn as I go and thats okay.

If you actually managed to read through this I thank you.

 
 
 
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I wanted to share my current vaporizer setup with you guys.

To start, heres synthetic ruby balls over ceramic heater set to max temp.

Next is a custom herb extraction chamber device made from an omega wand, modified dynavap fat mouthpiece, and diy nectar collector herb chamber.

The extraction device inserts into the EQ forming an air tight seal with glass adapter. The herb chamber sits directly above the ruby heater balls.

Finally some glass is added on top. Arizer solo stems work well.

 

Share your most commonly used pieces!

 

Mistral Small 22B just dropped today and I am blown away by how good it is. I was already impressed with Mistral NeMo 12B's abilities, so I didn't know how much better a 22B could be. It passes really tough obscure trivia that NeMo couldn't, and its reasoning abilities are even more refined.

With Mistral Small I have finally reached the plateu of what my hardware can handle for my personal usecase. I need my AI to be able to at least generate around my base reading speed. The lowest I can tolerate is 1.5~T/s lower than that is unacceptable. I really doubted that a 22B could even run on my measly Nvidia GTX 1070 8G VRRAM card and 16GB DDR4 RAM. Nemo ran at about 5.5t/s on this system, so how would Small do?

Mistral Small Q4_KM runs at 2.5T/s with 28 layers offloaded onto VRAM. As context increases that number goes to 1.7T/s. It is absolutely usable for real time conversation needs. I would like the token speed to be faster sure, and have considered going with the lowest Q4 recommended to help balance the speed a little. However, I am very happy just to have it running and actually usable in real time. Its crazy to me that such a seemingly advanced model fits on my modest hardware.

Im a little sad now though, since this is as far as I think I can go in the AI self hosting frontier without investing in a beefier card. Do I need a bigger smarter model than Mistral Small 22B? No. Hell, NeMo was serving me just fine. But now I want to know just how smart the biggest models get. I caught the AI Acquisition Syndrome!

 

My first guitar string snapped and it launched a small circular pin somewhere. I looked up how to restring guitar strings and other peoples stringboard look different than how mine is set up. the pins I have aren't long and straight they are small circular things fitted into a small hole in the wood. What are these kinds of pins called? Can I upgrade to standard guitar pins?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

List of icons/services suggested:

  • Calibre
  • Jitsi
  • Kiwix
  • Monero (Node)
  • Nextcloud
  • Pihole
  • Ollama (Should at least be able to run tiny-llama 1.1B)
  • Open Media Vault
  • Syncthing
  • VLC Media Player Media Server
 

I am a hobbyist computer and IT guy. Not professionally trained but I grew up with the technology and have been tinkering with them for years. I am still learning new things and enjoy deeping my understanding. Troubleshooting is often a great journey to discovering new insights.

Shelved in the basement was a desktop pc released in 2018. Ryzen 5 2600 6 core CPU, 24GB DDR4 RAM, and an AMD RX580. These days such specs are modest compared to the latest and greatest but still pretty good IMO. If I remember right, it was having some graphical issues probably caused by a hdmi cable or something. It was a long time ago, no idea why such a good PC ended up collecting dust. Oh well, as a silver lining this story is about giving the PC new life.

This week I began tinkering around with local AI. LLama 3.1 8b just got released; I have been having lots of fun learning with it on the laptop. Sadly my poor old thinkpad is just not meant for that kind of work. It was sloow to generate text and process information..

So remembering the 6 core desktop in the basement, the time felt right to dust off the PC and get it to do some useful computing. Unfortunately while the specs are powerful, the things wifi never worked right for some reason. I never thought much about it since the PC was situated next to a router with Ethernet as a connection. Now it needs to live significantly further away and rely solely on wifi for big file transfers.

On an internet connection where my laptops right next to it were getting hundreds of mbps download, the pc was getting 10mbps. Ive had metal cased desktops before and none of them were this bad connection wise. Something was seriously wrong bottlenecking an otherwise great setup. So at first I figured it must have been a linux driver issue or some kind of software bug. Spent hours installing the right drivers for my specific wifi card and troubleshooting via terminal. Didn't help any.

Then I figured maybe the card was bust and researched new wifi cards. I always thought wifi cards were little chips and antennas built into the motherboard. Not the case with this computer.

My first important discovery was that this computer had a huge wifi card mounted just underneath graphics card taking up its own slot in the back. This makes sense, if you want to upgrade to the newest wifi frequency in 10-20 years just pop a updated card into the slot.

My second important discovery was realizing the beastly wifi card had two little brass bits connecting out behind the PC. Threaded bits. Hey I know these, they are male coaxial bits.... For an... antenna.... facepalm

The realization hit me like a club. Oh... OH. YOOO IT NEEDS ANTENNAS, DUDE. I had been using a radio technology with either no antenna or an inbuilt one so awful it might as well be malfunctioning.

I felt like an idiot, have seen the back of that PC many times but for some reason just never noticed or thought about the coaxial bits and what they could be for. Oh well lets just order some cheap sticks and hope it helps.

So I with the cheap set of antennas in hand, I screwed them on. Honestly expected it not to do anything because its never that simple. Fired up speedtest before and after installation. Before antennas was 10mbps up and down After installing the antennas >200mbps down and >100mpbs up. Yeeeeah looks like that took care of the issue right away.

In the future ill look on the back of my big desktops and see if they could be easily upgraded with a set of antennas. The more you know!

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