I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It’s really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I’d rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.

Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.

And no, I can’t just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.

  • someone@lemmy.todayOP
    11·
    2 days ago

    So try again… in a couple of hours…

    Why would that make a difference? It’s a local model right?

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 days ago

      If it is local only, then waiting probably won’t help.

      Another thought for you: pip behaves much better inside a virtual environment - using the Python venv module, or uv.

      The instructions you have shared so far look more compatible with venv.

      • someone@lemmy.todayOP
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I don’t understand what venv is or why this would work better. Will this make the compatibility issues go away? I could also just create a virtual Ubuntu environment that’s fresh if that would be easier and try to give that environment access to my GPU but I don’t know if that would work.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          1·
          14 hours ago

          I don’t understand what venv is or why this would work better.

          Venv is a Python module that helps isolate sets of Python modules from the system installed Python version.

          Will this make the compatibility issues go away?

          No guarantees, but it often does.

          I could also just create a virtual Ubuntu environment that’s fresh if that would be easier and try to give that environment access to my GPU but I don’t know if that would work.

          I’m not sure either. But you’ve got the idea. Python packages install better when they’re allowed to exist separately from the underlying operating system.