| ▲ | sowbug 3 hours ago | |
I wouldn't mind my own offline Gemini or ChatGPT 5. But even if the hardware and model were free, I don't know how I'd afford the electricity. | ||
| ▲ | mitthrowaway2 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
If you can't afford the electricity to afford to run the model on free hardware, you'd certainly never be able to afford the subscription to the same product as a service! But anyway, the trick is to run it in the winter and keep your house warm. | ||
| ▲ | jdprgm an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
A single machine for personal inference on models of this size isn't going to idle at some point so high that electricity becomes a problem and for personal use it's not like it would be under load often and if for some reason you are able to keep it under heavy load presumably it's doing something valuable enough to easily justify the electricity. | ||