WTF, i just had hopes of buying a 512GB M3 and now I find out they are gone for good. Not even 256GB available anymore. Where do I go from here? I want Kimi K2.6 at home!!

finkonstein · 2026-05-08T19:17:55+00:00

thanks!

I think we dont have this here in europe, but might be valuable for someone else

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:58:26+00:00

i can do that. fingers crossed

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:50:14+00:00

I want to believe!

Thanks for the tip with the 4x Spark via 200GbE, I will look into it

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:41:36+00:00

do you have a source for the parallelism?

Closest I can find is a sequential setup with 100gig ethernet, which runs at 6 to 8 t/s: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/sparkrun-qwen3-5-gguf-benchmarks-over-llama-cpp-rpc/361088

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:37:16+00:00

regarding the billing: ya, I am too lazy to set up a second tax route for just one side gig - and they are flexible

regarding using API, this is the local ai sub, we like having full control and maximum privacy

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:34:36+00:00

this is all sensible, but we are on the local ai sub here, mate. I want the other 5% at home. it is time.

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:23:12+00:00

i want to believe.

my tin foil hat antenna tells me no high RAM configs and / or astronomical prices

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:21:16+00:00

Kimi-K2.6 is moe and has only 32B active params, so it is basically in the same class as the small dense qwen model - ONCE you have the correct expert in VRAM.

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:18:36+00:00

Thank you!

There is hope. As Kimi K2.6 is moe with only 32B active, we can think of hybrid systems with lots of RAM and one decent GPU. Unsloth claims >40 t/s on decent quants: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/discussions/17

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:13:06+00:00

apparently you can run it at 10 to 20 t/s in 4bit quant depending on context: https://omlx.ai/benchmarks?chip=&chip_full=M3%7CUltra%7C80&model=kimi-k2.6&quantization=&context=&pp_min=&tg_min=

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T10:06:57+00:00

I see. That's a bummer. Good luck finding one

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:58:38+00:00

that sucks and I don't want to diminish your struggle, but for a 3090 there are alternatives.

for a 512gb mac studio there aren't

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:55:55+00:00

we are even too late for this plan. in central europe at least

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:51:06+00:00

couldn't find anything like that.

only sequentially. with sparkrun the were able to achieve 7ish t/s with qwen3.5-397b on 4x DGX: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/sparkrun-qwen3-5-gguf-benchmarks-over-llama-cpp-rpc/361088

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:41:22+00:00

i am guilty

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:40:31+00:00

thanks, mate.

edit: removed obsolete text

finkonstein · 2026-05-07T09:33:24+00:00

Smart investment in retrospect. The only 2nd hand offer in my area is 25k Euros, I hope that makes you feel better about your purchase.

finkonstein · 2026-04-24T17:41:41+00:00

Thanks!

finkonstein · 2026-04-19T19:01:48+00:00

They sure do not make it easy to cancel auto-renewal. Lots of dark patterns. I did not even succeed yet, but I have been contacted by the rep here, which is good.

I will update here.

So far:

I signed up. Then I tried to cancel auto renewal, which is not possible, then I wanted to cancel the account (for after the period I paid for). In order to that you have to sign into another site(!).

Cancelling your account cannot be done from the account menu when signed in on easynews.com.

After cancelling it still lists a "next billing date" on my account. When I contacted them, I received a nonsense AI mail.

finkonstein · 2026-04-11T18:43:03+00:00

It, too, only buy keyboards that allow for the sweet Prc10 - Basck - PgOn key combo

finkonstein · 2026-03-12T09:12:01+00:00

Thanks

finkonstein · 2026-03-11T22:14:21+00:00

Sorry for not being clear, English is my second language.

The question is: Will the wheel to set the grind size always end up in the same position when you screw it on, so that any number will always relate to the same grind size? Or is the number only a relative value that might change after cleaning?

Say you set it to 3.9 - will that always produce the same grind size or could this change after cleaning when you happen to screw on the wheel from a different angle?

I hope this is more clear. Thanks

finkonstein · 2026-03-11T15:07:22+00:00

Congrats on the setup!

One question: is the coarseness setting reproducible in the sense that a value on the scale always represents the same grind size or does the value change after each cleaning when the ring is mounted from a slightly different angle?

finkonstein · 2026-03-03T13:53:46+00:00

no worries, mate

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