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Also no political censorship, and it doesn’t report you to the police when it suspects you did something illegal. That really happened, by the way.

Now I want a local LLM server :( $25k is just so much money.

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I'm building a local LLM server myself. For about 8k€ you can have 170tps, ~6000 prefill.

A lot more with Haiku equivalents (Qwen3.8 27B) or gemini. It's not frontier, but not that far away.

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MacBooks with large RAM and optimized for local models should be Apple's medium term goal.
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> My local model never says no. I never get banned.

So much this. Plus everything else you mentioned. The freedom and control is real.

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Exactly, that's the spirit. I pool the resources with some friends as well.
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I think both of y’all glossed over the $25k of it all pretty quickly. This isn’t remotely an option for anyone.
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Its a drop in the bucket for many businesses though.
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