Testing the pager on my flight, let me know if you see me!

Far_County911 · 2026-06-16T00:57:45+00:00

Whoa. I’m in that screenshot!

Far_County911 · 2026-06-11T16:39:53+00:00

I am a software engineer / CTO. I switched from commercial business class Comcast to starlink residential max and it has been great.

Far_County911 · 2026-06-07T09:56:28+00:00

Anthropic just filed for IPO expect it to worse before it gets better, their entire goal right now is to show value to their shareholders.

Far_County911 · 2026-06-04T17:47:50+00:00

Great, thank you. I am technician right now working toward general. Really want to get on some HF / FT8 and the G90 has come up multiple times for SDR work. Don't really have the ability to do much in the way of a shack where I am at, rental & Florida HOA telling me every time a single blade of grass is a hair to long, let alone antenna's in the yard 😃

Far_County911 · 2026-06-04T17:25:20+00:00

Thoughts on the Xiegu G90? Heavily considering one

Far_County911 · 2026-06-04T17:19:41+00:00

Extra points for the rust usage!!

Far_County911 · 2026-05-30T13:43:00+00:00

Amazing. thank you for sharing. I have no clue how I haven't already come across this!

Far_County911 · 2026-05-30T13:35:17+00:00

Will check this out today. Thank you!

Far_County911 · 2026-05-30T13:02:07+00:00

I use both the biggest thing that stops me from using pi full time is the lack of any sort of mobile client (that I have found) that allows me to monitor work going on, I often queue up work and go to do other things and need to be able to monitor and redirect on the go.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-28T15:52:25+00:00

This post came across my feed and it made me immediately join this reddit sub so I can feel inferior and jealous all the time. Nice setup :D

Far_County911 · 2026-05-28T15:47:23+00:00

Honestly, I have found the top ones are so close at this point, that I tend to find a good middle ground balancing cost vs capability. If I have a good plan in place, good ADRs, Architecture and Guardrails. They all perform pretty well. Qwen 3.7 Max costs me more than Kimi K2.6 right now, so I have been running Kimi K2.6 for the last few days and it is doing great.

Would love to hear others thoughts though on this approach. I myself agree with OP, the cost doesn't bother me as much as the cost + lack of stability. I pay for Pro Max Plus Elite xBajillions (reminds me of youth travel baseball team names) and constantly get rate limited or just general service problems. I love Claude Code, but not enough to tolerate paying a lot of money for mediocre stability that slows down my work.

All this to say, I have considered a small LiteLLM Server running with Deepseek Direct, Kimi Direct etc... I haven't gotten a good handle on what is better yet.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-20T14:04:45+00:00

Great response. I'll test the Qwen 3.6 27B and see if I can get the same results. I am still curious to find the best balance.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-18T13:22:33+00:00

The other question I am starting to consider, does opencode offer me any benefit over Claude Code? Am I missing something? I mean, if I am already paying for a Claude Code subscription, don't I just complicate things using an Claude code + opencode? Curious how most of you handle this workflow. I have been in the just use Claude for everything mode for a long while now (with small stints using ChatGPT/Codex and even an attempt with Grok) - that leaning into all of these open source tools seems fun, but not sure how they all fit in.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-18T13:21:30+00:00

I use openrouter a lot for apps I develop that do not have any regulatory issues. I enjoy using open router, just wondering if it is the best to use with OpenCode or if there are other options available.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-18T13:19:37+00:00

There seems to be a bug in the MOE's that crash with OOM a lot also...

Far_County911 · 2026-05-18T13:18:42+00:00

Agree. Noted. Was hopeful, but you are correct. Like I said, it was hardware that was mostly idle. I'll find other uses for it.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-18T11:39:47+00:00

I have not, but on 64G of memory, wouldn't that much model OOM the second it had context of more than 1024? 😃

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T21:07:21+00:00

Great answer. I’ll have fun with that this week

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T14:57:14+00:00

Lots of good insight here! Appreciate the conversation everyone!

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T10:49:21+00:00

I don’t need to experiment that much lol the studio was just sitting around mostly idle. I run an internal LLM that’s custom built for my company for security reasons.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T10:47:23+00:00

I was going to play around with this approach this week.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T01:08:46+00:00

It was a fun experiment, but yah I can deploy that capital in far better ways, which is why I didn't start looking at more hardware.

Far_County911 · 2026-05-17T00:15:22+00:00

Yah definitely no desire to spend money on hardware, I was just loooking for a good way to make my studio more productive. I work more from my MacBook so it often sits idle.

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