justinram11

Have the same setup -- got a good black friday deal last year on an AMD 395+ w/ 128gb of RAM. Still not super bullish on running AI models on it, but it makes a great dev server anyway.

Actually had claude spin up a kanban board to manage my tasks in a 'TODO -> Plan -> Implement -> Review -> QA -> Shipping -> Done' flow (with a worktree for each task) that works great!

Something I've enjoyed more than I expected is Google and Apple photos sending me photo memories and compilations of various things in my life and my kids lives over the last decade.

I'm really bullish on taking more video of my kids, with the thought that it will become easier and easier for AI to put them into little compilations I can enjoy later.

Actually on my list this week to take a look at putting an intelligence escalation flow MVP together (initial assumption would be that flash is good for 60-80% of my user's workflows, with only the tricky questions needing a more capable model. Whether I can put together a proper detection system is yet to be seen).

That's about what we've seen as well (even directly from deepseek themselves).

We've been using it for async "heartbeat" processing and sms replies, but it's just too slow for live chat replies (which is a shame, as I'd really love to use it there).

Very capable model, but also very slow.

Bought the exact same machine (same config and ram as well) around the same time off ebay for ~$280. Part of me wonders if I should sell it, but I do occasionally like to play with homelab stuff.

I have a 3060 12gb card I'd love to hook up to my PoE Reolink cameras for face detection and to get off of the Reolink app.

I actually enjoy it much more than I thought I would.

I love tinkering and solving problems on the computer, and it's fun to have a space to do it with my hands in the real world. Learning the basics of carpentry to erect a fence, basics of plumbing and the various international fitting types to install a (from japan) bidet toilet, cat6 throughout the house and trench out to the garage, basics of hvac for a whole-house humidifier and smart thermostat (MN winters) -- have all felt like very fun projects.

Next project is probably trying to replace the plumbing up to our second floor bathroom with pex (water pressure upstairs is very poor).

Also helps that I have a very handy dad that I can fall back on to ask questions or help.

This was around 2020-2022 during COVID, but the whole process from start to finish from Taiwan took a little over two years for us (we had issues with the financial supporting documents that took 3 months round trip twice to get resolved -- so potentially would have been closer to 18 months had we done everything correctly).

Extremely frustrating process to say the least (my Taiwan resident card was sorted in less than a month).

Just bought that exact kit for my Minisforum 790S7 build at the eye watering $592... Kicking myself as I was just starting to contemplate it early Oct but not yet seriously looking

Curious if the suspend / hibernate "just works" when you close the lid?

I feel like I've tried several times to get this working in both Linux and Windows on various laptops and have never actually found a reliable solution (often resulting in having a hot and dead laptop in my backpack).

Although I think Cursor has the best UX (love how they queue up diffs that you then go through and can review/approve/deny easily while the agent still works), I've since switched to Claude Code + JetBrains IDEs as the sweet spot for powerful IDE + AI Agent.

Perhaps I just haven't found the right combination of plugins, but I can't for the life of me get VSCode code navigations (go to, find definitions, refactor method, etc) to work half as well as a JetBrains IDE (much less get a debugger working).