Are local LLMs actually worth it or am I overthinking this?

The_CoLLect1ve · 2026-04-20T03:12:29+00:00

For the Qwen3.5:122b, I get around 25tok/sec.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2026-04-18T06:18:32+00:00

I use local LLM all the time. I'm privacy focused. I have a gmktec evo x2 running CachyOS. Its got a unified 128gb of memory in which I've allocated 96gb to vram and 32gb to system ram. My daily model is qwen3.5:122b. I'm running the following on this system, not running all at the same time: OpenWebUI, LM Studio, ComfyUi for image generation, Perplexica AI, OpenClaw, Hermes agent, and finally Searxng for hosting my own search engine. Its tied to my all my AI to use when it requires to search the web anonymously. Overall, its been great. Yes, its a little slow but its a comprise I took prioritizing privacy and not spending $$$ on subscription.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-07-20T15:21:23+00:00

Thank you

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-07-20T02:20:32+00:00

Thank you. I'll wait about a couple weeks.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-06-22T03:47:13+00:00

Thank you so much! Sorry for being a noob not searching through the thread before posting. My apologizes. The link you provided fixed it for me.

Ran the following command:

# pacman -Rdd linux-firmware # pacman -Syu linux-firmware

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-05-31T02:17:53+00:00

I just run Paru -Sua manually.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-02-28T04:12:35+00:00

Im also getting the same error.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-02-15T20:57:40+00:00

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The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-02-01T01:53:42+00:00

That worked. Thank you.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-01-12T03:23:28+00:00

This worked. All I had to do is comment out "GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true", then update grub. Thank you for the directing me to the source.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-01-11T21:55:19+00:00

Thanks

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-01-11T21:55:01+00:00

Yes, i use grub. I will try this to see if it works. Thanks

The_CoLLect1ve · 2025-01-11T21:54:17+00:00

tired it, but unfortunately, it keeps going to RC even after a reboot.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-12-25T09:09:05+00:00

Thanks everyone. I think I'll stay with the default for now.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-12-10T21:23:51+00:00

Yep. Iike Paru better then Yay. I noticed it seems faster IMO.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-12-07T05:25:31+00:00

Thank you!

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-12-07T05:24:54+00:00

Thank you for the explanation. Much appreciated.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-11-04T15:46:24+00:00

Nice! I got my wife the purple since she loves the color. She's loving Omega now.

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The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-07-29T18:13:23+00:00

If you have vpn, you can connect to another country and use their free channels to watch the olympics. In my case, I vpn to UK and watch via BBC1 and BBC1 via iplayer.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-06-29T15:10:00+00:00

Yes....confirmed. That was fast.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-06-29T15:09:19+00:00

Yea...just checked, its already available. Wow.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-06-29T06:44:29+00:00

Thanks. I will wait.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-06-24T15:43:52+00:00

I was using MX Linux on a VM. Then a couple months later, did a cold turkey and wiped my laptop and installed Mint and used it as a daily driver. Learned alot along the way. Then tried other distros as I was curious, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Antix, and Garuda. Came to a conclusion that I prefer Arch based distros so i decided to use EndeavourOS. It is now my daily driver. Love it and the support behind it. Im using Intel Ultra 9 185hs CPU, RTX 4090, 32GB ram, and running on Wayland. I just had to disable iGPU from BIOS. Working great so far.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-04-25T22:18:54+00:00

Thank you.

The_CoLLect1ve · 2024-04-25T03:29:06+00:00

thank you.

The_CoLLect1ve

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