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Is there an alternative to Stack Overflow? (lemmy.today)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] [S] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So try again... in a couple of hours...

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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months 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.

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