big_babol
Re:Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis
on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:05AM (#49477334)
Love it! References to the books would be awesome, since they basically hold the Warhammer 40k "history"
Re:Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:17AM (#49408208)
I'm having the same constraint, 8GB VRAM, and was trying the past months to get a local model running to drive my Home Assistant setup via voice, so many tool calls, little room for errors. I've tried multiple models, different temperature and top p values, different context windows... turns out that a quantized gemma4 is the best pick so far but qwen3.5:9b isn't far off. Surprisingly newer models are not necessarily performing better.
Re:Hacked Amazon Echo Dot 2 and can run LLMs locally
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:52AM (#49318850)
Nice one! I have Google speakers and like the sound quality. Only annoying thing is that they can only be used with Google's cloud assistant.
After migrating to Home Assistant I have also created a HACS integration that uses ESPHome-based mics for the STT and sends the TTS to the speakers (works for any smart speaker exposed to HA): https://github.com/bigbabol1/HomeAssistant_mic_to_mediaplaye...
Maybe I am going to try to capture the mic readings from the speakers to skip the additional ESP devices