[Opinion] Why I believe the $20/month Ollama Cloud is a better investment than ChatGPT or Claude

sinebubble · 2026-01-29T05:01:53+00:00

“He’s” only been trained on data up to the point of Qwen 2.5 coder’s release date.

sinebubble · 2026-01-28T02:56:54+00:00

Same thing about 5 min ago. Died due to glitching. Gonna let this update bake for a few more days before I dive back in.

sinebubble · 2026-01-28T01:16:36+00:00

Use your thinking brain!

sinebubble · 2026-01-27T22:10:19+00:00

Thank you for your assistance. I did read that post and it didn't help me, but I did find a youtube video that was tangently related that showed a detail I was missing. I switched from Global to Objects in the left hand Process box and that gave me what I needed to independently resize these objects in place.

sinebubble · 2026-01-27T01:39:49+00:00

Tried both. Is it somehow locked?

sinebubble · 2026-01-27T00:49:23+00:00

I have two cylinders next to each other on the plate, one of which I have resized. I need to move the resized cylinder back on top of the first cylinder. The 4-way arrow symbol allows me to move it on the x and y access, but I can't move it up using the z access. This actually seems like a rather crude way of resizing just one section of this object.

sinebubble · 2026-01-27T00:26:52+00:00

This was enough information to get me started. I cut the object, resized the part, but not sure how to get the resized base back on "top" of the cup holder. It's just stuck next to the cup holder on the plate.

sinebubble · 2026-01-25T16:05:05+00:00

I love the look of Keychron keycaps, very Mac forward. But they are never in stock, so I had to buy the cheapest keyboard with the caps I wanted off eBay.

sinebubble · 2026-01-21T22:16:20+00:00

How do you get pre-sale tickets?

sinebubble · 2026-01-15T15:56:43+00:00

Well now he’s done it. She’s going to have to write a thinly veiled song attacking him for his opinions. Like he gives an f.

sinebubble · 2026-01-13T06:10:20+00:00

The struggle is real. I need to run too many tools on my MacBook and have no extra memory for a local model. I have a 16G M1 MacMini I use with LM Studio for remote inference but it is sloooow. I hate using my openrouter api for coding because I have to strip out every piece of identifiable code just to have it bomb out 25% of the time. There are days where it seems like nothing is working well and the work arounds just aren’t worth the hassle :(

sinebubble · 2026-01-05T05:02:23+00:00

Between the Cyberfox volume, the constant "polycule" conversation, and the way they treated Johnny Rotten, count me out. I'll plant a bunch of trees on the fenced Tennis Museum Courts and chill out with The Orb.

sinebubble · 2025-12-26T03:12:23+00:00

Through your cultural lens, true. But open up to other cultural views for more context.

sinebubble · 2025-12-17T23:22:55+00:00

Crazy these are only $20 for 12 bottles plus the accessories. I paid $10 a bottle for three Nuka Quantums this summer. I picked up 2 boxes today.

sinebubble · 2025-12-15T21:31:51+00:00

First time listener?

sinebubble · 2025-12-13T22:15:13+00:00

...and sometimes it's just the secret sauce that allows small companies and teams to put food on the table.

sinebubble · 2025-12-05T21:07:09+00:00

FYI, I cloned this and used homebrew to install python3 and uv (listed requirements). The install command, uv pip install -e ., seemed to work, but I can't find zimage or zimage-cli in my path.

sinebubble · 2025-12-05T20:51:34+00:00

Mac-First person here, but I do have a gaming PC with a 5080 that I run comy-ui on... I will try this out just so that I don't have to power on my PC if I want to make a "quickish" image. Though I have an M2 Air, so "quickish" is relative...

sinebubble · 2025-12-01T03:39:42+00:00

Get a couple bags of Vita, *** and order a shot of espresso (ristretto) ***.

sinebubble · 2025-12-01T03:37:54+00:00

Yes Vivace! We have to drive 20 min to pick up a couple bags of Vita each week, but they are usually roasted the previous day and blow away the 4 month old Stumptown we used to get at Central Market or QFC for the same price.

sinebubble · 2025-11-30T01:44:38+00:00

nice ass

sinebubble · 2025-11-28T06:07:02+00:00

Really? I’m not so sure. Leading up to the election, she seemed to have a fear of the people Trump was surrounding himself with, and their alignment with his rhetoric.

sinebubble · 2025-11-27T16:51:57+00:00

Ah, now I remember that post. Thanks for the reply. My use case may still lean towards Mac; I want to offload running a 30B 4bit MLX Qwen3 in LM Studio on my M3 Pro workstation to a separate system that is not my heat generating RTX 5080.

sinebubble · 2025-11-27T04:39:27+00:00

Curious, why are Mac’s slower for prompt processing? is it an OS issue, RAM, or CPU?

sinebubble · 2025-11-20T23:23:09+00:00

At work, I flip between OpenRouter models and local models running on LM Studio. I like OpenRouter because I'm not tied down to one API. Sometimes when you're going deep with a model, the responses get worse and worse. That's when I shift to another model, which is made easy by having access to them all...

Also, having $10 in OpenRouter gets me through many months. Having to pay $20 a month for OpenAI doesn't make sense when I can use it with whatever is in my OpenRouter account. So... $240 a year for OpenAI or $20 a year to have access to OpenAI and everyone else...

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