What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Personally I’m finally reaping the fruits of my labour and enjoy my stable homelab without doing much. One node went down recently and the other took over until I restarted so I was not in a hurry to fix things. Enjoying family time and only running updates that aren’t automated (yet). I’m about to dig a bit deeper into logging, probably setting up central log collection like Loki at some point, but not yet.
Interesting, I mainly have used text generation webui which has a search support plug in, kinda nifty to use my searxng instance for it. It’s a bit finicky though.
Another thing to keep in mind then (apologies if this is just repeating info you already know), you’d also want to keep in mind your total potential context size in relation to the model size, since both take up VRAM. Reading search results/pages can eat up a lot
Yea I’m aware but I appreciate the insight :) so far my local ai experience has been lack luster so I’m hoping that training and RAG will make up for the context size at least a little. Ifnit can answer accurately in the first place, it may not need as big of a context window.
If you haven’t tried using RAG in some form, I would recommend giving it a go. Its pretty cool stuff, helps make models answer more accurately based on the documentation you give them though in my case, ive had limited success. Tbh, chatgpt has become my last resort when I just wanna get something done but I don’t like using it due to the privacy concerns, not to mention the ethical issues I have with ai training in general from big tech.
How is searxng BTW? Would you say its good to host or do you use a normal search engine more often? Or do you just use it for the AI search plugin?
Ive actually been thinking about using it rather than duckduckgo but was also hopeful the search index they are working on would be enough to satisfy my needs, or that a self hosted AI enabled search engine would work well enough when I need it.
I’ve completely replaced my searching with searxng, it is a little slower and ofc if I have an outage or something at home I have to go back to a different search temporarily but overall I like it a lot.
It was one of the first things I set up last year with my homelab because I am attempting to degoogle a fair amount, the Ai search stuff was just a fun test
Thats rad, thanks for the info. I may follow suit, been trying to degoogle myself lately.
For sure, good luck and have fun :D