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New comment by spicySpy in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

spicySpy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:32:44 +0000

For anyone wondering about local LLM applications:

- current price $200+

- limited VRAM (12-14 GB)

- poor performamce in clusters [1] - only 2 lanes of PCI-e 2.0 (still better than CMP XX HX mining cards)

[1] https://ciroluciotecce.it/en/posts/bc250-cluster-inferenza-l...

New comment by spicySpy in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

spicySpy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:05:51 +0000

Would you mind to share the link to `gemma4:12b-it-q4_K_M`?

New comment by spicySpy in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

spicySpy — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:47:36 +0000

There are - people are complaining about SSD health

New comment by spicySpy in "Kona EV Hacking"

spicySpy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:08:15 +0000

I really like both the e-Niro and the Kona EV for their "normal" car look and I did some hacking too. Wanted to play with the Web Bluetooth API and Svelte, so created the open source Niro Spy app (should work with your Kona too), works on iOS through BLE browser. It might be a good template for some OBD2 hacking, you can also check Open Vehicle Monitoring System repo and the evDash project.

The car is somewhat reliable on the battery side (still have SOH over 101% after 90k km / 50k miles), but the gearbox and motor bearings issue can be tricky to fix.

Also the MY2019 vehicles do lack remote climate controls and battery preconditioning (which I'm still trying to fix with the app).