alt Hacker NewsI mean, it's a (secondhand) computer I bought for other tasks (processing very large photos, compiling large apps quickly). It's running all the time. It can also run LLMs when I want to.
The rest of my life is ultra-frugal so I am relaxed about this.
Replies
monkmartinez • last Monday at 8:23 PM
My thinking is totally aligned with yours, perhaps its because I am trying to do a second act at almost 50 from blue-collar to white collar office work. I have no formal degree, but I have been hobby programming for 20 years. I have made a habit of "letting myself be available to all lessons"... the localllama group has made this journey really fun if nothing else. I have learned an ABSOLUTE ton from this era!
➕ show 1 reply
Don't bite. You're right.
Having spent a good weekend learning how to perform latent-steering through playing with pytorch and a local Gemma4 model, there is no way I could have groked any of that in the the way I did without hands on time.
This is on an M3 Max 36GB I've had for a couple of years. No further outlay needed.