Linux on an HP Omen

My Asus ROG Strix laptop died prematurely after a meager 3 years of service. Best guess is the graphics MUX bridge got buggered by poor ACPI table handling in the firmware. It limped along the last couple months, working normally while running but failing to boot at the windows spinner about the half the time. … Read more

Meta LLaMA 7b on Win 11 RTX3070

I’ve been playing with Stable Diffusion locally for a while and meant to make a post about getting torch-directml setup to work on WSL with CUDA, but haven’t got around to it. This is basically the same process with even easier instructions to follow. Here’s a Reddit post documenting the process: [D] Tutorial: Run LLaMA … Read more

Runic Investigations

Digging into the Elder Futhark on Wikipedia, as one does. I forgot that each rune had a name. The names using the associated letter is an example of acrophony The Elder Futhark can be roughly transliterated into the Roman alphabet and vice versa. For example, my transliterated name in the Elder Futhark is ᚱᚨᛚᛖᛁᚷᚺ.