Make do with the subscriptions for now.

Sometimes you can't. All big three are bringing in the censorship and virtue signaling. It got to absurd levels recently. I asked claude to audit my code, let's see specific security features and it flat out refused etc.

I did a janky setup at home - I hooked up an old razer egpu case with 3090 (which had been collecting dust) to a strix halo 395 machine. I'm running qwen 3.8 flash next abliterated version as well as few image editing models and hook up to it with pi. The speed is really decent, it works on a level like frontier models late last year or better, and the best thing is I feel I can do anything with it without being nannied around.

I still use frontier, but now I use both. I recommend everyone to get one of these machines and do a similar setup. I got the idea from here anyways.

The local models might start leaving things out of training sets soon too

Absolutely agree which is why i also said in the above post to run qwen for now.