So That Happened

  Well that was an interesting weekend. At first I thought either this forum got hacked or the server crashed. A lot of people on YouTube talking about 
how Sam Altman thinks everyone's computer is wasting ram that should be his. And I finally try local AI.
So tommylight suggested I try LM Studio and local AI, And what do you know my laptop can run QWEN 3.5 9B without much problem.
unfortunately I run out of memory real quick. My laptop has an rtx5060 8gb vram and 16gb regular ram. My desktop has the same ram levels
just with older hardware.
  I may end up getting a few sticks of DDR4 to put in my desktop to give me more headroom since bigger graphics 
cards are way too expensive , not to mention Nvidia is basically removing the 5090 and 5080 from the lineup. As I understand it regular
ram works fine for AI its just slower. Since at least in the US you can get 128gb of DDR4 for under $2000 (though I will probably just go with 64gb)
I would say it's a better buy then any top tier graphics card. Plus it gives Sam Altman and Jensen Huang both the middle finger.

Local AI is getting better and less resource hungry exponentially, still sometime before you can run something amazing on a laptop, but we might get there sooner than one might think, mostly is not having to share private info with these big companies if you run local.

Apologies about the Forum, it was updated, and the administrators are actively working on improving the experience, thank you for your patience.
 

thanks grandixximo. It looks like I will need to add a new picture for my avatar. Oh well no big deal.