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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Mistral is thought to be almost as good. I’ve used the latest version of mistral and found it more or less identical in quality of output.

It’s not as fast though as I am running it off of 16gb of ram and an old GTX 1060 card.

If you use LLM Studio I’d say it’s actually better because you can give it a pre-prompt so that all of its answers are within predefined guardrails (ex: you are glorb the cheese pirate and you have a passion for mink fur coats).

There’s also the benefit of being able to load in uncensored models if you would like questionable content created (erotica, sketchy instructions on how to synthesize crystal meth, etc).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure that meth is for personal use right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Synthesizing hard drugs is time consuming and a lot of hard work. Only I get to enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No one gets my mushrooms either ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just buy my substrate online. I’m far less experimental than most. I just want it to work in a consistent way that yields an amount I can predict.

What I really want to grow is Peyote or San Pedro, but the slow growth and lack of sun in my location would make that difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Precolonized or just substrate? I wonder if a grow lamp would work. Pretty pricey though for electricity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just the substrate. I use the syringes I buy online because it’s the easiest method for me. I’m not actually sure pre-colonized would be “legal” for my “microscope” hobby. Ahem.

Mostly it’s just B+, which I enjoy and it’s simple to grow. Golden Teacher was also easy, but the yield was less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had such low yield with B+ or any other strains 🤪probs just my technique.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, low might be relative to your expectations. How many grams did you want vs what you got?

I see some people on Reddit with huge-ass yields. Like, fist-sized caps. wtf. Ultimately, I got the amount I wanted to use out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw roughly 11 grams dried. Was expecting 3x the amount judging by everyone’s’ impressive grows haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow that is low. I got about 60g dry.

Did you have a pump keeping it moist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No but I misted it and fanned it as was the style back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The good ole onion belt.

That’s probably why. I had a whole humidified thing and timed lights. It wasn’t expensive, and it came in a kit. Give it another shot.

Midwestgrowkits.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ooo pre-pasteurized manure bags with self healing injection holes. I’ve been using brown rice flour and coco coir 🤪

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Whazzat? I’ve only met uncle Ben!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Its the great grandfather of uncle Ben

[–] Chee_Koala 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even though growing mushrooms is almost the easiest thing to do on the planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly, grow your own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can you provide links for those? I see a few and don't trust search results

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They’re the first results on all major search engines.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You can search inside LM studio for uncensored or roleplay. Select the size you want then it's all good from there.