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That's a bit more specific. You simply said Mac mini. But like asking for a BMW when you are only looking for an M5 BMW. But hay ho. Was only trying to be helpful, but get a world of scorn for my efforts... Won't bother in future. Don't bother replying because I won't see it

Have you rainwater filling it? What happens if it overfills in winter?

For a programmer / SE certainly junior roles have been reduced significantly. Why employ someone when a llm can do it ? . There’s virtually no need to write code anymore 🤯. No need to learn all the libraries . Now it is orchestration for the human . I discussed this with ChatGPT . It worded it as coding is now cheap and virtually no labour required ! I’m in a fortunate position as I can experiment, spend money , no boss , endless end goal , no risk . Chat agrees that my full project would require pre llm a small team of programmers and would take years to develop . Now there’s one , me , zero code to do . 🤯🤯🤯. For reference as I have only 96gb I have the smallest possible context windows. This apart from reducing ram requirements also avoid hallucinations. Deepseek and qwen are fed fresh prompt each time not historical reference required . ChatGPT of course needs the history / context - but produces no code . I’ll say it again , it’s insane !

Thanks. Patio going in to the right at the moment, then it’s on to the extension. Going to be a busy year!

Well done, very neat. I like the cantilevered deck over the water.

Finished

Not long since finished mine. More formal than wildlife pond.

Right , now, let’s do this slowly I didn’t check every website on Earth . You need enough ram to be useful . 24gb once booted won’t leave a lot for a useful llm . local llm can even be installed on a pi for example . The keyword is useful - in essence you’d want 64gb min on a Mac as it uses unified ram . People run these things on much less . These units and above have all but disappeared. Ultra m3 ( go check ) on eBay ( assuming they have real stock ) are on for 5k base model prices . So that’s 1k more than Apple retail them for . Openclaw etc has made a lot of people punt on a relatively cheap Mac mini to experiment with .

Just to put this to bed, job done. Just need to foam it in and tape it up, which I can't do until we have chosen our light position. Cutting a board down it's depth is horrible, but it meant I got rid of the remaining 50mm stuff I've had hanging around for years. Cheers Nick, onto the next thing.

Like we already said the answer is moving all the time so 42 won't cut it in today's race. FWIW I think this thread is interesting because this technology has so many implications for us all and although we are just experimenting the opportunity to do amazing things is tantalising and, frankly, we / they have not found the killer application yet and that may come almost as probably from amateurs playing as professionals trying to crack it. The local platform arms race to top or bottom is really an aside. As you say you can already spend 10K on a card always assuming your rings (mains) can supply the power. Pretty soon fan coils and UFH won't be the only things your average ASHP will be cooling!

Not heard this, and I would not be doing 4mm radials unless someone had a gun pointed at my last beer in the fridge.

Oven cannot go on to a ring main, again ( @Pappa ) this needs a dedicated RCBO and it's own cable to an isolator.

Been 'a thing' since the 18th iirc. No, a dedicated RCBO and a single cable to an FCU is required for an integrated microwave, but things like Quooker taps and warming drawers can go on a ring main socket.

Good outcome, and thanks for the update.

Thread tidied. As you were people. The management.

You are right about that. I think we’ve hit a wall and are totally fed up with all the problems and decisions. Just as we thought we were on the home run, this came up.

I'd be spitting off the oven (due to the potential load) and fridge/freezer (to protect the contents if the ring trips) onto separate circuits.

@DWBungalow

UPDATE……. so after emailing and posting the letters by hand, the builders truck arrived at the neighbours yesterday. This morning I was doing some work outside and the neighbour called by and said the builders aren’t starting Tuesday now. They (neighbours) put a halt to it to clear up what’s going on. Said builder said he would deal with communications, they didn’t know what was involved with access or PWA. Didn’t want any bother so it’s paused until further notice. It was the first amicable conversation about it. So the builder is available for work now if anyone is interested 😁 In the meantime I’ve painted the fence, walls have a had a coat of brilliant white, jet washed and pointed slabs and oiled furniture. looks lovely for any future photos 👍🏻 Thank you

This sounds interesting. Can you tell me more please. How does this work exactly? See Thread Wiring for freestanding lights?

I’ll give you a 69

I am waiting for the ultimate answer.

A sane person . Problem is unified ram . Best on Nvidia is 96gb on rtx6000 that’s a 10k gpu card !!!! This is why Apple have ( unintentionally) jumped to number 1 for local llm .

Reseal while the bath is full of water. (Any downward movement of the bath will open the joins, and you avoid the sealant being put under tension whenever someone gets in the bath.)

Mac mini, M4 is what I quoted and yes it's for sale, delivery on Wednesday.