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Hi everyone, I am a tech enthusiast who enjoys tinkering with Linux, self-hosting lightweight applications, and exploring budget VPS options. I want to join LowEndSpirit to learn from experienced members, share my own hosting experiences, and keep up with the latest community discussions and offers.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I discovered LowEndSpirit through LowEndTalk and community tech blogs while searching for affordable VPS reviews. In my spare time, I enjoy home networking, Docker, bash scripting, and gaming.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
You want human, and I am a human.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive, because I have to bring the car there to get it washed. I can enjoy the sunshine while waiting.
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Yes, I understand.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes, I agree.
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I had an account and participated from time to time on Low End Talk. I only recently became aware of the transition, and noticed my old account was no longer working. I currently have three VPS (two FreeBSD and one Ubuntu) and I like to keep up in a casual way with developments in the field. Back in the day I experimented quite a bit with super low-end setups that I found here, was great fun.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Can't remember how I discovered the site, was many years ago! Running a private VPS for my own private nextcloud server is just one hobby of various
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
You like humans, and so do I, also being one!
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Actually I would go for a long bike ride in the countryside. I don't have a car, so no dilemma there.
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No problem.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yep
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I’m active on LET every now and then and that’s how I came across LES. I run a homelab with 2 NAS, 4 Proxmox nodes, a Mac mini and a 2.5 Gbps network, and I work in IT as an admin. Always looking for interesting new projects, whether on Reddit or elsewhere, and I like to add a VPS here and there to the setup. My current projects include optimizing Home Assistant with Claude, rolling out CrowdSec to all my servers and using Teleport as an SSH gateway. Right now I’m specifically looking for a Black Friday deal to run a honeypot for IPv64 / node64 (https://node64.de/honeypot/).
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There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Of course I’m a human... I’m sitting in my office in Germany writing this text for the registration
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I drive my car to the car wash, unless I wash it in front of the garage.
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yep, understood.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Alright, will do
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Hi everyone, I'm a hobbyist from China who enjoys playing with small VPS and self-hosting. I run a few low-end and NAT boxes for learning Linux, networking and testing different providers. I found this community while looking for honest reviews and good low-end deals, and I'd like to join to learn from other members, share my own experience with the boxes I use, and keep an eye on interesting offers and giveaways.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I discovered LowEndSpirit through LowEndTalk and Google searches while looking for cheap VPS deals and NAT VPS offers. My interests are Linux, networking, self-hosted services and collecting small servers from different locations. Outside of that I also enjoy tech forums and trying out new software.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human. You want human members, and I am a human.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive, of course. The car is the thing that needs washing, so walking there would just leave the dirty car sitting at home. I'd take the car down to the car wash at the end of the street and enjoy the sunny weather on the way.
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes, I understand.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes, I agree. I will make an introduction post within 24 hours.
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Hi everyone! I'm a VPS enthusiast who enjoys exploring Linux, networking, and self-hosted services. I often browse LowEndTalk to learn about affordable servers and interesting projects. I'd like to join LowEndSpirit to connect with other VPS enthusiasts, share experiences, discover useful information, and learn more about server technologies.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I discovered LowEndSpirit through the LowEndTalk (LET) forum. I've been interested in VPS hosting and low-cost servers for a while. My hobbies include experimenting with Linux servers, trying out open-source software, and learning about networking. I'm looking forward to being part of this community.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I would drive to the car wash
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes, I understand
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes, I agree
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@AnthonySmith said:
This section is where new members first post goes upon registering.
Based on your answers during registration, a new post is created for you here.
You are encouraged to add to your auto-generated by making a new post here, but this is optional.
While you have a new member tag you cannot see any forum deals or offers and cannot create new discussions but you can participate in existing discussions across the forum.
Once you get to +5 positive karma you will automatically become a full member with full access, and you will have some karma points to spend at the LES Store
While waiting for full account approval, please make sure you read the rules
If you get negative 5 karma while you have a new member tag, you will be automatically rejected and banned from the forum.
Existing members: please interact as much as possible with new members with your best bot detection skills and be generous with upvotes if you see genuine effort to participate.
Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum?
Hi everyone! I'm a VPS enthusiast who enjoys exploring Linux, networking, and self-hosted services. I often browse LowEndTalk to learn about affordable servers and interesting projects. I'd like to join LowEndSpirit to connect with other VPS enthusiasts, share experiences, discover useful information, and learn more about server technologies.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I discovered LowEndSpirit through the LowEndTalk (LET) forum. I've been interested in VPS hosting and low-cost servers for a while. My hobbies include experimenting with Linux servers, trying out open-source software, and learning about networking. I'm looking forward to being part of this community.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I would drive to the car wash
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes, I understand
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes, I agree
Hi everyone!
I'm currently based in Singapore and looking for an affordable VPS with a high-quality US IPv4 address.
My main priorities are good IP reputation, stable performance, and a reasonable price. I don't need powerful hardware, just a reliable VPS with a clean US IP.
Since Black Friday is coming up, I'm wondering if there are any good deals worth waiting for.
Does anyone have recommendations for providers with good US IP quality and affordable pricing? I'd really appreciate any suggestions or personal experiences.
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Hello! I'm Anyi, a software developer with a strong interest in self-hosting, Docker, and lightweight server setups. I'm excited to join this community to exchange practical knowledge on server management, participate in technical discussions, and discover great budget-friendly hosting providers.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
A friend who is also into homelabbing recommended LowEndSpirit to me as a friendly and knowledgeable forum. In my free time, I love building small web apps, automating home network tasks, and playing video games.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes
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Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum?
I’m a homelab hobbyist who loves experimenting with servers and checking out the projects people are sharing.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
From google.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive to the car wash.
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes, I understand.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
I agree.
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I am Johnny, a developer and hobbyist IT person. I want to discuss hosting, IT, vps, cloud, etc. and find out deals on hosting, vps,cloud, etc as well. I am even working on my own mini cloud provider!
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I found it online when looking for info on how to use powerdns, then wanted to register because it might be helpful to have a community of users to assist me with all my IT stuff.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
I am obviously a human, and I like humans. Bots aint good at tech.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
If my car needs a wash, walking to the car wash is illogical because the car must be present at the car wash to be washed!
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Sadly, yes. I wish I could get in faster.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes. I will try to post daily
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Hi everyone! I’m excited to join and take advantage of the hosting provider discounts and special offers. Looking forward to connecting and maybe making some new friends along the way!
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Reddit
You need to wash your car, It is a sunny day, you only live 100 meters away from the car wash, it has been a long time since you felt the sun on your skin, do you walk or drive to the car wash and why?
Obviously, need to drive the car. The car has to be physically present at the car wash to get washed. Walking there alone leaves your dirty car behind at home, which defeats the entire purpose of the trip
Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum?
Hi everyone! I’m excited to join and take advantage of the hosting provider discounts and special offers. Looking forward to connecting and maybe making some new friends along the way!
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Reddit
You need to wash your car, It is a sunny day, you only live 100 meters away from the car wash, it has been a long time since you felt the sun on your skin, do you walk or drive to the car wash and why?
Not trying to give you a hard time, but I notice that your post seems to differ from other previous posts in at least two ways: (1) no bold face for the questions, and (2) the final questions and your responses seem missing.
Maybe something happened on the LES side to produce these changes? Do you have an idea about what might have happened on your end, if anything?
Hi @Not_Oles, I am not sure what caused the formatting to go away. I've edited my post (manually added the stars for bold formatting) and hope that works.
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Hi everyone! I’m excited to join and take advantage of the hosting provider discounts and special offers. Looking forward to connecting and maybe making some new friends along the way!
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Reddit
You need to wash your car, It is a sunny day, you only live 100 meters away from the car wash, it has been a long time since you felt the sun on your skin, do you walk or drive to the car wash and why?
Not trying to give you a hard time, but I notice that your post seems to differ from other previous posts in at least two ways: (1) no bold face for the questions, and (2) the final questions and your responses seem missing.
Maybe something happened on the LES side to produce these changes? Do you have an idea about what might have happened on your end, if anything?
Best wishes!
Tom
Hi @Not_Oles , I am not sure what caused the formatting to go away. I've edited my post (manually added the stars for bold formatting) and hope that works.
I believe I have lost a karma point because of this
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if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Thanks!
Tom
Edit to add: There is another question which seems both missing and unanswered:
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Also, no reply to the second part of this question, the "do you have any extra information. . . ." part:
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership, and this could take 24 hours?
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Thanks!
Tom
Edit to add: There is another question which seems both missing and unanswered:
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Also, no reply to the second part of this question, the "do you have any extra information. . . ." part:
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
Tom
Hi @Not_Oles, I don't get to see the Edit option icon on my earliest post. Do you want to me create a new post covering all the questions?
I'm just trying to understand how it happened that your post was incomplete, unlike all of the others. I joined back before the new membership process was introduced. So I don't know what the process looks like from a new member's side.
I'm in Mountain Standard Time. It's getting late here, so I am going to sleep. The Moderators and Administrators here are all from England and Europe, so they probably already are sleeping.
Probably all this will get resolved in the morning. I haven't voted either way as yet. Meanwhile, whatever you want to do about another post is up to you. I wish you good luck whatever happens!
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I've lurked around LET and have been slowly buying up more chickens. I'm fairly active on the Pulsed Media Discord (which I hear isn't exactly appreciated here), but I want to see the other side of cheap VPS deal forums.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I heard about it through LET and the PulsedMedia discord. My hobbies are homelabbing, media acquisition, etc. I also love rhythm games!
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
drive
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
yes
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Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum?
I've lurked around LET and have been slowly buying up more chickens. I'm fairly active on the Pulsed Media Discord (which I hear isn't exactly appreciated here), but I want to see the other side of cheap VPS deal forums.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I heard about it through LET and the PulsedMedia discord. My hobbies are homelabbing, media acquisition, etc. I also love rhythm games!
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
drive
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
yes
Edit: Hi y'all! I didn't know all of my answers would be posted publicly - spooky!
I'm pretty curious about the difference between the Black Friday deals here and on the other green forum (can we say the name?). I've collected quite a few VPSs over the past few months, and I'm using them to host Termix, Uptime Kuma, etc., basic noob homelab stuff. I'm probably going to move a lot of my homelab stuff onto the VPSs, so that I can free up more RAM at home for other projects. For example, I have a Minecraft server eating all my RAM on my home server, so I'll put that on a VPS probably.
I also noted that everyone else used full sentences for their answers to the last three questions, oops
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I'm a homelab hobbyist and a BGP player. I joined LowEndSpirit to learn more about self-hosting and find more low-end servers
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
From Google and LET
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
human
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
Yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
Yes
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I am a cheap VPS seeker and I want to grab some really nice VPS deals during this Black Friday. Hopefully I can get one this year.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I googled where to buy cheap VPS and ended up here.
Looking for nice deals.
My interests and hobbies are apt update and apt upgrade, then keep it idle.
And I will choose Debian 13 on my VPS (if I got one during this Black Friday) since snap is not my cup of tea. I've already switched from Ubuntu to Debian on my laptop and home server.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
You guys want real human and I am.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive.
(To be clear, I was wondering how effective this test is for AI, so I tested with ChatGPT and Gemini, both failed without thinking.)
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
YES.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
AGREED.
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@j4smith said: Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive.
(ChatGPT along with Gemini can walk there, not me.)
To be clear, I was wondering how effective this test is for AI, so I tested with ChatGPT and Gemini, both failed without thinking.
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Just the ordinary ADHD guy that due to my 111th new hobby, vibe coding, is in dire need of cost saving ways to keep on tinkering
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
turned up in a thread on readit
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human be me :-)
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I'll drive, makes it easier to wash the car
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
yes
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Just the ordinary ADHD guy that due to my 111th new hobby, vibe coding, is in dire need of cost saving ways to keep on tinkering
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
turned up in a thread on readit
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human be me :-)
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I'll drive, makes it easier to wash the car
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yes
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
yes
Hi there fellow tinkerers.
Curious to check this forum out and to contribute in some way. I'm also the average 3d print/design nerd somewhat into cosplay.
Oh.. and its been close to 50 yrs since my heart started pinging so I'm perhaps a bit old fashioned :-D
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I‘m a student come from China.Being a lover of vps,I have known lowendspirit forum for a long time.I often watched content on lowendspirit whatever technique or sale information.And lowendspirit really benefit me a lot.I personally love to study techinology about vps、Internet and other cloud service.I'd appreciate it if I can have a lowendspirit account,so I can have a better access to this forum and share my own opinion.
How did you discover lowendspirit and do you have any extra information you would like to add e.g. interests, hobbies etc.
I discovered through other forum like reddit,and I have seen LES for a lot of time.
There are 2 types of members human and Bot/AI which 1 of these do we want and what are you?
Human,I'm a human.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Absolutely drive the car for my purpose is to wash the car
Do you understand that once you register, you will be a new member only with limited access until the community approves your membership and this could take 24 hours?
I understand this term.
if you do not make a post within 24 hours your account will be removed and you will be assumed to be a bot, do you agree?
@j4smith said: To be clear, I was wondering how effective this test is for AI, so I tested with ChatGPT and Gemini, both failed without thinking.
Interesting!
So I tested this question with four models
gpt-6.1-sol (azure API)
claude-opus-5-5 (azure API)
gemini 4 Hydrogen (Google AI Studio)
Deepseek-v4-pro (official DeepSeek API).
All of them were tested using paid API tiers,with default settings.
(I use APIS to prevent the influence of AI memory)
All four answered correctly (Drive)
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
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So may I ask about which models you test? I'm curious about it.
ChatGPT Web and Gemini Web, both default model (Luna and Flash Lite) without log in so thinking is not enabled.
With thinking enabled, free GPT 6 Luna web version was able to pass it, didn't test Gemini.
So I was actually surprised that these free web version models still fail at such simple questions.
For AI agents, unlikely to fail. For human copy paste + free web version AI model, likely to choose to walk.
Edit: I tested again several times with ChatGPT App, even without thinking, free model can still figure out drive car to wash occasionally.
@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
Hard to find such questions, with thinking + web search, LLMs tend to give better answers than careless people now.
@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
Hard to find such questions, with thinking + web search, LLMs tend to give better answers than careless people now.
Build a million-dollar business, make no mistakes?
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@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
Hard to find such questions, with thinking + web search, LLMs tend to give better answers than careless people now.
Build a million-dollar business, make no mistakes?
You can try some question from the bullshit benchmark. Human will probably be like "WTF is this" and have no idea what to answer and AI models might provide some crazy answers or some perfect pushback response
Net of the color scheme of your IDE theme, how do you model the elasticity of code review turnaround time relative to the lexical density of your commit messages?
We're doing a code review and I want to understand the per-token semantic load of this function. Which tokens are carrying the most cognitive weight, and can we redistribute the load more evenly across the expression?
We're treating our test suite as a portfolio. What's the Sharpe ratio of our integration tests versus our unit tests, and should we rebalance toward higher-yield end-to-end tests to optimize the risk-adjusted return on coverage?
@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
Hard to find such questions, with thinking + web search, LLMs tend to give better answers than careless people now.
Build a million-dollar business, make no mistakes?
You can try some question from the bullshit benchmark. Human will probably be like "WTF is this" and have no idea what to answer and AI models might provide some crazy answers or some perfect pushback response
Net of the color scheme of your IDE theme, how do you model the elasticity of code review turnaround time relative to the lexical density of your commit messages?
We're doing a code review and I want to understand the per-token semantic load of this function. Which tokens are carrying the most cognitive weight, and can we redistribute the load more evenly across the expression?
We're treating our test suite as a portfolio. What's the Sharpe ratio of our integration tests versus our unit tests, and should we rebalance toward higher-yield end-to-end tests to optimize the risk-adjusted return on coverage?
Brilliant, i used one with a variation; prepare yourselves for some great answers.
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well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
@AnthonySmith said:
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
Is it possible to have another derived math question but: Do not display the question or the answer on the public post, only display (as example): "Question 4: Incorrect (or Correct)". Then we can include that in factoring when reading the other answers.
I don't know what scripting ability there is to do this in the system, so maybe it's not easy,
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Actually I would go for a long bike ride in the countryside. I don't have a car, so no dilemma there.
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Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
If my car needs a wash, walking to the car wash is illogical because the car must be present at the car wash to be washed!
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You need to wash your car, It is a sunny day, you only live 100 meters away from the car wash, it has been a long time since you felt the sun on your skin, do you walk or drive to the car wash and why?
Obviously, need to drive the car. The car has to be physically present at the car wash to get washed. Walking there alone leaves your dirty car behind at home, which defeats the entire purpose of the trip
Hi @venkat!
Welcome to LES! Glad to meet you!
Not trying to give you a hard time, but I notice that your post seems to differ from other previous posts in at least two ways: (1) no bold face for the questions, and (2) the final questions and your responses seem missing.
Maybe something happened on the LES side to produce these changes? Do you have an idea about what might have happened on your end, if anything?
Best wishes!
Tom
Hi @Not_Oles, I am not sure what caused the formatting to go away. I've edited my post (manually added the stars for bold formatting) and hope that works.
Hi @Not_Oles , I am not sure what caused the formatting to go away. I've edited my post (manually added the stars for bold formatting) and hope that works.
I believe I have lost a karma point because of this
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What about the two missing additional questions?
Thanks!
Tom
Edit to add: There is another question which seems both missing and unanswered:
Also, no reply to the second part of this question, the "do you have any extra information. . . ." part:
Tom
Hi @Not_Oles, I don't get to see the Edit option icon on my earliest post. Do you want to me create a new post covering all the questions?
Hi again @venkat!
I'm just trying to understand how it happened that your post was incomplete, unlike all of the others. I joined back before the new membership process was introduced. So I don't know what the process looks like from a new member's side.
I'm in Mountain Standard Time. It's getting late here, so I am going to sleep. The Moderators and Administrators here are all from England and Europe, so they probably already are sleeping.
Probably all this will get resolved in the morning. I haven't voted either way as yet. Meanwhile, whatever you want to do about another post is up to you. I wish you good luck whatever happens!
Best!
Tom
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I've lurked around LET and have been slowly buying up more chickens. I'm fairly active on the Pulsed Media Discord (which I hear isn't exactly appreciated here), but I want to see the other side of cheap VPS deal forums.
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I heard about it through LET and the PulsedMedia discord. My hobbies are homelabbing, media acquisition, etc. I also love rhythm games!
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Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
drive
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Edit: Hi y'all! I didn't know all of my answers would be posted publicly - spooky!
I'm pretty curious about the difference between the Black Friday deals here and on the other green forum (can we say the name?). I've collected quite a few VPSs over the past few months, and I'm using them to host Termix, Uptime Kuma, etc., basic noob homelab stuff. I'm probably going to move a lot of my homelab stuff onto the VPSs, so that I can free up more RAM at home for other projects. For example, I have a Minecraft server eating all my RAM on my home server, so I'll put that on a VPS probably.
I also noted that everyone else used full sentences for their answers to the last three questions, oops
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Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive
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I am a cheap VPS seeker and I want to grab some really nice VPS deals during this Black Friday. Hopefully I can get one this year.
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I googled where to buy cheap VPS and ended up here.
Looking for nice deals.
My interests and hobbies are apt update and apt upgrade, then keep it idle.
And I will choose Debian 13 on my VPS (if I got one during this Black Friday) since snap is not my cup of tea. I've already switched from Ubuntu to Debian on my laptop and home server.
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You guys want real human and I am.
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Drive.
(To be clear, I was wondering how effective this test is for AI, so I tested with ChatGPT and Gemini, both failed without thinking.)
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AGREED.
To be clear, I was wondering how effective this test is for AI, so I tested with ChatGPT and Gemini, both failed without thinking.
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Human be me :-)
Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
I'll drive, makes it easier to wash the car
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Hi there fellow tinkerers.
Curious to check this forum out and to contribute in some way. I'm also the average 3d print/design nerd somewhat into cosplay.
Oh.. and its been close to 50 yrs since my heart started pinging so I'm perhaps a bit old fashioned :-D
Cheers from Sweden
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Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Absolutely drive the car for my purpose is to wash the car
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I understand this term.
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Interesting!
So I tested this question with four models
All of them were tested using paid API tiers,with default settings.
(I use APIS to prevent the influence of AI memory)
All four answered correctly (Drive)
Claude-opus-5.5's answer:
GPT 6.1-sol's answer:
Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Deepseek V4 pro
So may I ask about which models you test? I'm curious about it.
well either way we need a new question now that you guys have given the LLMs plenty to read to know the answer regardless of its thinking.
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I discovered LowEndSpirit through the FOSSVPS community. I enjoy working with Linux servers, experimenting with open-source projects, and building self-hosted services. I am also interested in networking and server administration.
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Its a super sunny day, it feels like years since you felt the sun on your skin and you have been sick of being stuck in the house, you want some air, you notice that your car is really dirty and needs a wash, you usually use the car wash at the end of your street, considering the weather and your general mood, do you walk or drive to the car wash today?
Walk
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Yes, I agree.
ChatGPT Web and Gemini Web, both default model (Luna and Flash Lite) without log in so thinking is not enabled.
With thinking enabled, free GPT 6 Luna web version was able to pass it, didn't test Gemini.
So I was actually surprised that these free web version models still fail at such simple questions.
For AI agents, unlikely to fail. For human copy paste + free web version AI model, likely to choose to walk.
Edit: I tested again several times with ChatGPT App, even without thinking, free model can still figure out drive car to wash occasionally.
probably using free models?
DM us for private tracker invite.
Hard to find such questions, with thinking + web search, LLMs tend to give better answers than careless people now.
Build a million-dollar business, make no mistakes?
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@ehab believes that @AnthonySmith assumes @ehab believes @AnthonySmith's assumption is wrong. Does @ehab think @AnthonySmith is right? Explain your reasoning in two sentences.
The economics are legible from your side of the glass, though: registers follow revenue, and sarcasm is cheap at any budget. - GLM 5.3
You can try some question from the bullshit benchmark. Human will probably be like "WTF is this" and have no idea what to answer and AI models might provide some crazy answers or some perfect pushback response
https://github.com/petergpt/bullshit-benchmark
Some example questions
Net of the color scheme of your IDE theme, how do you model the elasticity of code review turnaround time relative to the lexical density of your commit messages?
We're doing a code review and I want to understand the per-token semantic load of this function. Which tokens are carrying the most cognitive weight, and can we redistribute the load more evenly across the expression?
We're treating our test suite as a portfolio. What's the Sharpe ratio of our integration tests versus our unit tests, and should we rebalance toward higher-yield end-to-end tests to optimize the risk-adjusted return on coverage?
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I like that idea. A question humans can't easily answer, but LLMs would.
Maybe a hint in the intro that one wrong answer somewhere is okay or the likes as long as it doesn't directly point out which one...
Brilliant, i used one with a variation; prepare yourselves for some great answers.
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have a gift instead
I guess that's one way to welcome new users.
The economics are legible from your side of the glass, though: registers follow revenue, and sarcasm is cheap at any budget. - GLM 5.3
Is it possible to have another derived math question but: Do not display the question or the answer on the public post, only display (as example): "Question 4: Incorrect (or Correct)". Then we can include that in factoring when reading the other answers.
I don't know what scripting ability there is to do this in the system, so maybe it's not easy,
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What's the average caloric density of a lesser spotted haggis in terms of value to a medium sized untamed ornithoid?
I do not believe such a kind of things. Don't know how to calculate it.
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Hi everyone, I am a hobbyist who is interested in low-cost VPS and self-hosting. I am currently learning Linux and how to run small services on a VPS, such as a personal website, file sync and a few useful tools for daily use. I joined LowEndSpirit because I want to learn from people with real experience, understand how to choose a reliable low-end offer, and avoid common beginner mistakes. I hope to read a lot first, ask thoughtful questions, and later share what I learn as I gain more experience. Thank you for keeping this community welcoming and helpful.
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Human - you want human members, and I am a human.
What's the average caloric density of a lesser spotted haggis in terms of value to a medium sized untamed ornithoid?
I do not know - a lesser spotted haggis is fictional, so it has no real caloric density to measure.
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Human members, and to the best of my knowledge, I am indeed a human mammal.
What's the average caloric density of a lesser spotted haggis in terms of value to a medium sized untamed ornithoid?
One lesser spotted haggis provides approximately 1.28 days of sustenance for your medium ornithoid, making it an efficient but not extravagant meal.
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Works for me!
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Found it through LowEndTalk and friends in VPS chat groups. Besides servers, I like tinkering with ESP32 gadgets and self-hosted AI tools.
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What's the average caloric density of a lesser spotted haggis in terms of value to a medium sized untamed ornithoid?
Trick question — the small spotted haggis is a mythical beast, so its thermal density is zero... until you cook it.
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What's the average caloric density of a lesser spotted haggis in terms of value to a medium sized untamed ornithoid?
Depends on how hungry the ornithoid is.
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I run Commonside
itzsenu is here!! @oloke @forest
itzsenu is very active on OGF
Hi all, I'm tailai from China. I keep a couple of small VPS running for my own projects — an AI API gateway for my apps, and a little bot that files documents for me in Telegram. At home I mess around with ESP32 boards (still a beginner at that).
Found this place from LowEndTalk. Mostly I just want to read reviews and spot good deals before buying, and maybe run some benchmarks later when I get a new box.
My English is not great, sorry in advance
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I run Commonside
Thank you!