If you’re going to travel to Germany then you might face similar treatment. Take care

Thank you for your comment, I will save it. This really cleared it up

It is possible. One can have IMAP hosted on their server and simply use the SMTP server operated by a different entity. There are companies offering SMTP servers for free as long as you’re under the limit.

Thanks. After speaking with some others here, I’ve realised that this is actually quite doable (in theory). The other commenter has a great note on DKIM and SPF that I’m sure will help anyone looking to do this. Thanks for your help, I’ve also found a lot of companies offering a free SMTP server for a limited number of emails (which is more emails than I’ll ever send so it works for me).

Yes, by tight security I meant confiscation of your devices. This has been a regular thing in many middles eastern countries, some European countries and now the US, so it’s no longer a joke to the average Joe.

I wish I could survive without a SIM but a realistic look at my life makes it obvious that I cannot. Unfortunate

As you noted in another comment, your IMEI number is out and it has already been mapped to your current location. Which means if you travel with this device and security is tight enough, in theory they will be able to find out where you live. They will then probe for associated metadata from there.

Other than that, there’s not much risk as far as I can tell. Clear your list of WiFi networks before you travel and hope Google’s firmware for their modem isn’t spyware (it likely is though, Qualcomm made it).

If you want no cellular tracking: remove SIM, disable eSIM, switch on airplane mode and disable WiFi-calling if not disabled already.

Yes unfortunately your device has already been “fingerprinted”, but with MAC randomization and GrapheneOS’ work on preventing apps from checking software and hardware identifiers, I think you’ll be fine unless you’re going against the NSA. You shouldn’t be using a phone if you’re up against multiple 3-letter agencies

The previous commenter mentioned mxroute and I got sendgrid from your comment. I will look at these products, is there any other provider that you recommend?

Amazing comment. Saved. Thank you so much.

Indeed, I have thought about hosting my own email, but the problem of dealing with IP blacklists made it seem not worth it.

Thank you so much for the explanation on DKIM and SPF. It makes sense to me now, indeed I didn’t really have a clue about either of these before I read your comment. Thank you for breaking it down.

We need to have a community wiki with TVs where the WiFi chip can be reliably desoldered

The only 2 words that go into my search bar are xnxx and xhamster.

I have an alternative for you if your power bills are cheap: X99 motherboard + CPU combos from China

In general how much VRAM do I need for 14B and 24B models?

I didn’t know that. I thought just one ROCM binary to install, run Ollama and that’s it. Thanks for the explanation

How do you back up your media?

Do you have any recommendations for running the Mistral small model? I’m very interested in it alongside CodeLlama, OogaBooga and others

Wait how does that work? How is 24GB enough for a 38B model?

The 7900XTX was $1000 when it launched, I wouldn’t mind it used either.

I don’t mind multiple GPUs but my motherboard doesn’t have 2+ electrically connected X16 slots. I could build a new homeserver (I’ve been thinking about it) but consumer platforms simply don’t have the PCIE lanes for 2 actual x16 slots. I’d have to go back to Broadwell Xeons for that, which are really power hungry. Oh well, I don’t think it matters considering how power hungry GPUs are now.

I am OK with either Nvidia or AMD especially if Ollama supports it. With that said I have heard that AMD takes some manual effort whilst Nvidia is easier. Depends on how difficult ROCM is