So this is a weird one, I'll just say what I did then provide a list of symptoms. I updated the bios on my 'Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7' motherboard from vF2 to VF12b; I did this by formatting a USB to FAT32, plugging it into the bios designated USB port, turning off the PC, waiting 30 seconds, then pressing the flash button and not touching it until it finished doing its thing and booted up of its own accord.

The results:

• The card powers on.
• The PC still posts and otherwise works, notable because my screen is plugged directly into the GPU.
• 'Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit' system information can detect the GPU.
• Other Linux Applets can not detect the GPU.
• The motherboards BIOS somehow does not seem to detect the GPU.
• No software, neither productivity applications nor games, can detect the GPU.

Solution
Disabling secure boot fixed it.

Item #: SCP-NC297

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-NC297 is to be kept in a standard object containment locker and may not be removed without the express permission of the site director. Any site staff discovered to have more than twice the number of immediate family members typical for their socio-economic background are to be investigated for possible unauthorised use of SCP-NC297.

Description:
SCP-NC297 is a metal container primarily composed of tin and adorned with aged copper decorations. SCP-NC297 is approximately 9 inches wide by 6 inches deep by 4 inches tall and posseses a flat hinged lid typical of such containers.

When held by a human SCP-NC297 will manifest within itself various forms of correspondance addressed to the person holding it, primarily consisting of various kinds of postcard and greeting card, the number of items held within SCP-NC297 appears to be infinite with the amount never diminishing no matter how many are removed.

The primary anomalous effect of SCP-NC297 is in the veracity of the correspondance held within, regardless of the number of items removed all will be genuine and remembered by the user, while initial instances are believed to be examples of pre-existing correspondance excessive use of SCP-NC297 will result in increasingly dramatic changes to the timeline in order to justify the number of postcards present; this can result initially in the creation of new events in the users life or the lives of their immediate family however further use may also cause the creation of new family members and potentially new locations and seasonal holidays.

Retrieval Log:
SCP-NC297 was discovered in the home of [Redacted] located in [Redacted] Florida following reports from neighbours about a foul stench eminating from the property and an unusually large quantity of mail visible through the front windows. Though initially overlooked, the foundation became involved when it was discovered [Redacted] had a seemingly impossibly large immediate family with 30 direct sibings, 12 adopted siblings, 4 step parents and over 200 aunts, uncles and cousins.

The item in question was discovered when a member of the mobile task force involved in the initial search of the property was found to have over a dozen completely un-mentioned siblings in addition to the immediate family already on file. SCP-NC297 was subsiquently identified among the items handled by the MTF member and its anomalous properties discovered during testing with D-class personel.

Addendum: Use of SCP-NC297 to generate potential related organ donors for high ranking foundation personel in the event of medical crisis is currently under review by the ethics committee.

Item #: SCP-NC331

Object class: Euclid - Uncontained

Special Containment Procedures: Any identified instances of SCP-NC331 are to be immediately confiscated along side all other meat on the same premises under the standard cover story of a salmonella outbreak. Any persons involved in the sale of SCP-NC331 are to be questioned as to where the product was obtained; any induviduals discovered actively promoting SCP-NC331 either on its own or as part of another product are too be detained for questioning and subsiquently amnesticized.

Description: SCP-NC331 consists of a number of microwaveable and pre-packaged meat products known to appear anomalously in convenience stores throughout western europe and north america. Packaging of SCP-NC331 always resembles that of similar products sold within the same store though with subtle errors akin to those produced through repeated image compression.

The meat within SCP-NC331 always consists entierly of mamallian tumour tissue, though due to significant DNA degradation the exact species of mammal is currently unknown to the foundation. Testing with D-class personel has uncovered no further anomalous properties within SCP-NC331, the meat is apparently palatable and tastes similar to pork, though notably "A bit salty and a little dry".

Foundation efforts to determine the source of SCP-NC331 are currently ongoing, standard checks when dealing with food based anomolies have revealed no correlation between appearances of SCP-NC331 and any disappearances or increase in cancer rates.

Retrieval Log:
SCP-NC331-A: The most common form of SCP-NC331 consists of homogenous chunks of SCP-NC331 usually shaped into the form of chicken breasts or pork steaks.

SCP-NC331-B: The second most common form of SCP-NC331 appears as mincemeat.

SCP-NC331-C: This category of SCP-NC331 is broadly defined as all SCP-NC331 products taking the form of a microwaveable fast food product, most commonly burgers or sandwiches of some kind.

SCP-NC331-D: May rarely appear as boned meats such as beef ribs, pork shoulders and chicken breasts. In such instances the bones withing SCP-NC331 have been confirmed to also be tumerous in origin.

SCP-NC331-E: A predumably unintentional form of SCP-NC331, in such instances the packaging will be of even lower quality than usual and the meat within inevitably appears as a lumpy mass of raw tumour cells. Such instances and the reports they generate are currently the main source of confirmed SCP-NC331 manifestations by the foundation.

So my relevant hardware is:
GPU - 9070XT
CPU - 9950X3D
RAM - 64GB of DDR5

My problem is that I can't figure out how to get a local LLM to actually use my GPU, I tried Ollama with Deepseek R1 8b and it kind of vaguely ran while maxing out my CPU and completely ignoring the GPU.

While I'm here model suggestions would be good too, I'm currently looking for 2 use cases.

• Something I can feed a document too and ask questions about that document (Nvidia used to offer this) To work as a kind of co-GM to quickly reference more obscure rules without having to hunt through the PDF.
• Something more storytelling oriented that I can use to generate background for throwaway side NPCs when the players innevitably demand their life story after expertly dodging all the NPCs I actually wrote lore for.

Also just an unrelated asside, Deepseek R1 8b seems to just go into an infinite thought loop when you ask it the strawberry question which was kind of funny.

Had a dream last night where I was on a road-trip and ended up randomly dropping into an alternate dimension, this short story is pretty much the backstory for how that dimension diverges from our own and is about 1/3 straight dream, 1/3 the random oddly detailed lore dump my brain gave me when I woke up (anyone elses brain do that?) and 1/3 creative writing to fill in the gaps. I'm not even am ameteur but I hope you guys find it interesting.
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At the end of the second great war the Manhattan project had yielded few results, though the allies would go on to win the war the power of the atom would never be harnessed for warfare. Yet deep bunkers in Germany would reveal research on a phenomena known as astrological manipulation; the effect was weak, almost a parlour trick, the sun could be turned dark or the stars made to shine brighter but only from the perspective of a small area and only for a few minutes. Fascinating to the theoretical physicists of the world but barely of note to nations in the midst of post war reconstruction.

It would not be until the 1960s that those physicists would finally attain a shaky yet certain grasp of the phenomena. Project Argus took 20 years to construct, a joint project between the United States and Great Britain, part arcane circle and part particle accelerator the enormous construct spanned 200 miles of Atlantic ocean, suspended from thousands of floating stabilization platforms. World War 3 would begin on January 5th 1980, and end with at the same no and total casualties on all side on January 6th 1980.

The goal of project Argus, the total hegemony of a united British and American empire, was to be attained by demonstration of absolute control of the sun itself, and yet such perceived control was wholly illusory. The sun would darken to a cold cinder, never to return.

By the end of 1981 desperation would truly set in all thoughts of conquest cast aside in the name of survival, great furnaces churned dark smoke into a darker sky attempting to provide light and heat to those remaining inhabitants and the precious grow houses that sustained them. On December 9th, now known as the day of the red star, Argus would awaken once more from its slumber; Those survivors of the original test, those rescued from summary execution by a now unknown yet foresighted officer would do everything in their power to light a candle in the dark.

On the day of the red star Jupiter would burn, a feint candle in the dark. Daylight earth would not see again yet the feint red light of day was as a nova after 2 years of darkness. Life would cease its gradual retreat into oblivion, though much changed and much diminished it would cling on in the twilight. Some few plants were able to subsist in the gloom and so sustain what little life was left. In the cites those who had survived the apocalypse would now dwell forever in twilight.

Tried to make this thing using only materials available at the start of the game: wood, stone, dirt, sand, iron and gel. Its got a full crafting setup, space for a hellivator and storage room. It also deliberately doesn't count as housing so NPCs won't barge in but I can still set my spawn.