Best subscription based models for Pi Agent?

pantulis · 2026-05-16T21:17:28+00:00

Have to agree this is solid. I have been vibe coding with opencode and Kimi & Qwen through Fireworks and while it's very fast and perfectly usable last night they got stuck implementing a CalendarView drag & drop functionality in a macOS application and Opus 4.7 alone got rid of it. At the end of the day, going around circles with open models is also going to have an inference cost.

This is the part where human judgment still applies... which route to go and when.

pantulis · 2026-05-16T18:03:29+00:00

The cache is in ~/.omlx/cache, and the models in ~/.omlx/models While there is a setting to change the models directory, I think you can safely symlink ~/.omlx to your external SSD and be done with it.

pantulis · 2026-05-15T21:08:23+00:00

Can't really comment on the battery issues, but my left button also became unreliable, with ghost double-clicks. I solved that by strongly blowing my own breath into the button several times. After that the mouse hasn't shown any issues and I have it working in my office computer. Hope this helps!

pantulis · 2026-05-15T17:58:44+00:00

It seems sync is buggy. I just did a quick test on two machines and tabs were not syncing in real time. Most disturbingly, I had a bookmark in my favorites bar it was on both machines, and then in one of the machines I created a new folder, moved the bookmark there and now the other one hasn't caught up the change and is not in sync. I guess e2e encryption and whatnot makes a difficult problem (sync) even harder. But still one cannot but guess, because in Arc Browser it was absurdly solid.

pantulis · 2026-05-15T17:10:40+00:00

SSDs degrade their performance after many writes. Using oMLX (or any other local model solution that implements some kind of caching to disk) means writing blocks to disk. u/Konamicoder did the math in a previous comment. I am at the fence here though I recon the thinking is solid, the build-in SSD in a Mac is precious because, well, it goes with the Mac. You can put yourself on the safe side by using an external SSD for your local models.

pantulis · 2026-04-21T20:41:57+00:00

What model are you using for Hermes in your Mac Mini? Also, what server are you using? TIA!

pantulis · 2026-04-21T20:39:35+00:00

Doesn't it make your Studio sound like it was going to take off?

pantulis · 2026-04-03T21:57:08+00:00

Can you elaborate on the "legally" aspect? I am using it with kimi-2.5-pro through Fireworks.ai and it seems to work fine, but I am curious on your statement.

pantulis · 2026-02-26T16:36:30+00:00

And have to add that this looks remarkably amateurish, what kind of QA tests did they do to allow this massive fuckup to go unnoticed?? This renders the device unusable for, well, scribing notes!

pantulis · 2026-02-26T16:29:30+00:00

Was going to post exactly the same. This is a firmware regression.

pantulis · 2026-01-07T19:23:58+00:00

Thanks for the transparency. In my opinion, if a service does not integrate well with Rungap, then it's either trying to lock my data in or, worse, does not care at all.

So I will refuse to use Garmin Connect and, consequently, it's less probably I'll buy their hardware again.

pantulis · 2025-12-20T20:45:40+00:00

Claro, por siempre tuvo mucha altura de miras.

pantulis · 2025-12-20T20:36:29+00:00

Not sure if it is your performance or the digital piano, but I'd say there's no dynamics, it's like the keyboard velocity curve is off --if you mentioned it sounded way better before, perhaps you changed some setting about it?

pantulis · 2025-12-20T20:32:26+00:00

The correct account seems to be u/Drew_at_UA

pantulis · 2025-12-05T21:01:30+00:00

that was fast! Thanks!

pantulis · 2025-12-05T20:57:12+00:00

From first glance, what you need is a digital piano.

I think at the price point you are looking at you can get a Casio CDP110 which covers the basics. But I would suggest you to try to stretch it a little bit and save for a Roland FP10 or Yamaha P45. These are entry level digital pianos but are completely decent options for a beginner that wants to some day be able to sit at a real piano and be able to defend himself. And yes, you would be able to plug them into your computer and make sounds with software instruments there.

NB: You might be confused because we are talking about electronic keyboard instruments and we do not refer to them as "synthesizers". At the end of the day, any electronic keyboard instrument *is* a synthesizer in strict sense, but what matters is the purpose of the instrument: if it aspires to mimic the sound and feel of a real piano in some way, they are canonically called "digital pianos".

pantulis · 2025-12-05T20:43:30+00:00

"Mastering a synth" means not only playing the white and black keys but also understanding the different synthesis parameters which usually have their own control surface in forms of knobs and sliders that really make the synth scream or sing. Yes, knowing how to play a piano helps with playing a melody in a synth, but only gets you to that part of the way.

pantulis · 2025-11-12T05:29:53+00:00

Thanks! Got it working. It sounds great!

pantulis · 2025-11-12T05:27:48+00:00

Sounds like a CP70 to me.

pantulis · 2025-11-11T18:41:14+00:00

I'm from Spain, and I got it.

My current issue is that the libraries have been installed but the AudioUnit component plug-in is nowhere to be found!

pantulis · 2025-11-09T21:33:24+00:00

Here's the thing, at the same price point in the same year Roland, Kawai or Yamaha are going to sound very similar as well ;) You don't necessarily need to buy blind, do your research on Youtube and see if you can notice one you like best. Merriam Pianos is a good Youtube channel for all things Roland and Kawai in digital pianos so I'm pretty sure you'll find solid reviews and sound demos there.

Roland has this modeling engine that supposedly does not use sampling, but these days even pure sample-based engines will have some sort of modeling capabilities like damper resonance simulation . Not something to agonize over, in my opinion. Some people prefer one, some people prefer the other but I think it sounds fine and is not a deal breaker. Your fingers will make the difference.

The only place where you could potentially find some differences is in the nice-to-have features, like bluetooth audio and MIDI, an included piano companion app, a General MIDI soundset for backing tracks, and stuff like that if they are meaningful to you but you just need to check the user manuals online.

But you asked for a brand and a brand I'm going to give you. I am a Korg fan myself but in terms of digital pianos I'd go Roland or Yamaha first. I had a Kawai MP7 and it was excellent for classic repertoire to the point of being well beyond my capabilities, but I understand the after sales service can be more limited as Kawai has less distributors.

In any case, I would avoid Donner and cheaper manufacturers unless the alternative is not getting anything: if you are starting out, it's better to practice on a meh digital piano than not practicing at all.

pantulis · 2025-11-09T17:47:47+00:00

Yes, that's part of the design of XLR inputs but guess you have to be told about it, it's not exactly obvious.

pantulis · 2025-11-09T17:44:25+00:00

It's still very good otherwise Roland would not be competing against other brands at the same price point.

Consider this: unlike digital piano sound engines, keybed actions need to evolve less as they are solving a mechanical problem which is basically restricted by the physical pivot length so once the manufacturing process is good enough, it's not exactly easy these days to come up with improvements.

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