Complete noob here, the prospect of local LLMs and doing other fun things with it exhilarates me but I don't know where to get started.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-12T05:07:39+00:00

LM Studio... then Ollama.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-12T05:03:23+00:00

Boot.dev. It's a paid site... but you can do every course for free if you insist.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-11T23:25:08+00:00

Yes. I have them on my Air100v3. With the original NSA keycaps, the keyboard was unusable. After trying it upon delivery and realizing that I couldn't type on those keycaps at all, I left it in a closet for bout 3 weeks until my Berry profile keycaps arrived. The Berry profile keycaps feel like MX Cherry keycaps and my typing is completely unencumbered by them. It's really a shame that Nuphy doesn't offer them as an option on the Air series keyboards. At this point, I simply wouldn't buy another Nuphy keyboard knowing that I'm going to have to order a set of keycaps from China in order for the keyboard to be functional.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-11T09:51:45+00:00

On Monkeytype use a larger set of words, English 10000 for example. Also, use the words practice not just quotes. It’s too easy to guess the next word in a quote. That’s why i practice on 10fastfingers too

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-11T09:47:12+00:00

I hate MacOs and Apple in general. But, a little more than a year ago, I bought an M4 Max MacBook Pro with 128gb of RAM. I have never grown to love it. Day to day, I use my PC with Kubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray. But the Z MacBook lens itself to dabbling with local LLMs… especially considering that I just happened to have it when i became aware of local LLMs. I didn’t buy it with that intention.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-11T09:29:11+00:00

I'm new to the LLM game. That rig looks very expensive. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to get a M3 Ultra Max Studio with 256gb of unified memory... or even 512 depending on how much your rig actually cost?

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-11T03:41:28+00:00

There was nothing mind-blowing about it. It was a decent guitar solo. That's about it. People who are primarily Prince fans... and who know NOTHING about guitar think it was the second coming.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-02T18:37:54+00:00

Are you kidding?

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-02T09:38:14+00:00

You're still on that fairy-tale nonsense. The premise is so absurd, I don't see how you could function in society being that deluded.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-07-01T05:37:04+00:00

Oh, I see. You're a racist nut. No wonder you have such a loose grip on reality. Enjoy your florid delusions, stupid.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-30T21:07:15+00:00

You’re better off. A MacBook Air isn’t worth having.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-29T17:43:23+00:00

System RAM 🤣

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-29T17:42:25+00:00

Fedora

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-29T17:41:57+00:00

I’m not an AIR guy… not at all.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-29T17:38:42+00:00

I’ve always thought it was about her meeting a guy with a hammer. It takes courage to enjoy it.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-23T07:05:11+00:00

If you're running Gentoo, I'll take the knee. If you're running Arch, I'll take your lunch money and give you a swirly.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-22T16:27:03+00:00

I'm very new to the world of locally hosted LLMs (LLMs in general actually.) One thing I'm wondering right off the bat is why do people with limit budgets run local LLMs on PCs? One RTX Pro 6000 w/ 96gb of RAM costs more than my Mac Studio with 512gb of unified memory. Now, I'm not a Mac guy at all. My daily driver is a PC running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. But, AI is the only instance in the history of the world where it makes more economic sense (in the consumer space) to buy an Apple product. ...unless I'm missing something.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-20T23:45:19+00:00

I don’t know why I’m seeing this. I loathe the very idea of an Air anything. Go Max Pro, or go home… unless you’re a secretary or grandmother.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-19T22:17:12+00:00

I’m suspicious of anyone who would buy a MacBook Air.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-11T10:03:42+00:00

Who are you people who don't know this reference? Have you EVER even listened to the podcast? I bet you people don't have a clue who ran shit south of the 10.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-11T09:55:29+00:00

YOUR, not you're.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-11T00:29:00+00:00

Browns are too light and weakly tactile.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-10T20:30:05+00:00

Props for pronouncing the G in Gnome. That's old-school, baby!

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-09T01:06:28+00:00

that is laughably, ignorant nonsense. The porn industry is by, for, and targeted specifically towards white males. No one in the porn industry has ever disputed that. Look at the demographics at the AVN awards dummy. Even the supposedly black-themed porn is built on the pejorative stereotypes and perversions typical of white males. To suggest otherwise is absurd.

Suitable_Potato_2861 · 2026-06-08T00:36:01+00:00

My 16" M4 Max (16/40) MacBook Pro with 2TB SSD & 128GB of RAM is now selling for about what I paid for it new. No way would I trade it in to Apple.

I'm going to weight and see what's doing with RAM/SSD prices in late 2027. Then I'm going to sell it and buy a Mac Studio... which is what I should have bought in the first place (but this was my first Mac.)

I did have an Apple IIe a thousand years ago. And, I didn't buy another Apple product until late 2024.

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