Downdetector reporting 35000+ reports
32 minutes waiting for Dell Tech Support
Finally get in and they say their system is down.
Is your system based on ChatGPT? I asked.
I think so she says.
fml. ridiculous.
Oh no!
Anyway…
I should do a kickstarter for a wifi connected butt plug that starts vibrating anytime a major AI providers system goes offline.
Well crap it was taken already…

Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.
Let it stay down.
Had a paid version for a while dediced to cancel and was offered three months for half the price that while being more than zero is half of what I paid earlier.
Once it dies will shop around or get a free model to toy with locally.
Don’t know how much you’re into AI models, but if you’re looking for one to play with locally, a couple open-source and open-weight ones that come to mind are one of DeepSeek’s, or Mistral AI.
Thank you for the suggestions, will look into it
Thousands of users “affected”. Just go do something else.
Something that actually activates the brain again, for example.
At least your teacher will know why students submitted their assignments late.
All right. Which one of you asked it what the Hannibal Directive is again!?






