Tag: NVIDIA

  • Getting Ollama and Open WebUI Working on Kubuntu 23.10

    Getting Ollama and Open WebUI Working on Kubuntu 23.10

    I have two specific use cases for setting up AI locally instead of using ChatGPT (for which I have a subscription as I use it for a variety of tasks, as does my wife). I needed to analyze interviews but couldn’t upload them to the web for security reasons. I also wanted to work on…

  • HandBrake – Convert Files with GPU/Nvenc Rather than CPU

    HandBrake – Convert Files with GPU/Nvenc Rather than CPU

    I don’t know exactly when HandBrake added the capability of using the GPU for encoding, but it was somewhere between 1.3.1 (current version in the Ubuntu repositories) and 1.3.3 (current version on PPA). Regardless, this option offers dramatic speed improvements, particularly when working with 4K videos. In this post, I’ll show how to use this…