alt Hacker NewsMy strix halo board is feeling more useful and less toylike with the recent performance gains combined from MTP, better quantization, and generalized performance improvements across the stack. For example, I can run Unsloth's Gemma4-31B 4-bit QAT model with around 30tg and 200pp. I don't find that to be too slow at all. Particularly because it's nearly full accuracy and good enough for a lot of different stuff I throw at it.
I think it also helps that I'm using my machine to do home server stuff. It excels at all of the traditional workloads. Then I can lean on the AI to help with automation here and there. I find it deeply satisfying.
you can absolutely use it for some workloads, but as soon as you have some extra complexity for a big repo it'll take forever and the economics are so silly to the point that the electricity bill would be comparable to a subscription. I love having the possibility of running things locally if some random dude decide to pull them plug, and give me solice the fact that i can have 100% private inference, but as the main driver during the day? shoot me