Attempted Brain Freeze

AI work inching forward.

The Scraptop has found a second career as a paperweight, but the large laptop cooling fan I got for it is proving useful.

Pinky & Brain have settled in - the svelte Pinky in my backpack, while the chonky, sharp edged Brain is half wasted. It sits over there, behind me, and I only ever see it via an ssh login as I puzzle over which combination of Docker containers is going to do what I need. I like having a spare, albeit a clumsy one, in case something happens to Pinky, but the #1 effect here is I avoided the price of an Nvidia RTX 4060.

I have a raft of stuff going with Docker - ArangoDB, Dify.ai, Ollama, OpenLDAP, OpenSearch; this container environment, which I formerly hated with a passion, is growing on me. There are a couple new people in my circles thanks to MIOS: Iran’s PressTV. While talking about a Docker thing I asked “Can you explain that in agricultural terms?”, I got called a “Stealy eyed Unix man”, and we promptly segued to Grateful Dead trivia. I think I’ve made a friend for life, and he understands the wonders of Docker’s Compose.

So that’s that and 2024 timing is in effect - it’s the hottest part of the day here in East BARTistan, nevertheless I am saddling up and taking myself to Post & Pack so my trusty 2014 MacAir can begin its new travels.