its funny, this little doodad supposedly has an 'npu' in it, and it was marketed towards ai bro types to be some kinda at-home llm-biased thing.

its an asrock-industrial nuks box-255h. its basically an off-brand intel nuc, and its *BEEFY*. its physically smaller than the phobos nucs (we have a fleet of em we ship to customers to do onsite stuff if they prefer that over someone in person) and its easily 10x the power.

but .. how do you use the npu at all?
ollama doesnt support it

its super weird, and i liken it to the copilot button on lots of laptops these days

nobody asked for it, nobody wanted it, and its there, and it takes up space (and power?) but you cant do anything with it because nothing supports it.

who knows. maybe hashcat can light it up, or maybe jellyfin gets another leg of code into its own ffmpeg fork and can use it. for now it sits idle.

anyway if you saw my tirade back in november about a new house server and the absolute gobsmacking price of ram, it went into this thing. the ONE STICK of kingston 6400mhz ddr5 32 gig in it cost me ~238 dollars, flatly twice the price of the 5600mhz stuff. i had 64 gig of the slower stuff but the system had all sorts of problems, and i didnt wanna underclock it, so i had to return it and buy new stuff

no idea at the time, but it was the beginning of the tech drought. now that ram is ~1600