Kinda has to be unless you've got 3k+ in GPU sitting next to you.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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A $500 one is plenty, even phones can run models good enough to be useful (if not near as quickly)
At this point if you don't know you're the product if the product is free, then chances are good you're not going to know. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
“Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them“
Because some of us let them. Paying never works. Libre software does.
Forget "if the product is free". You are a product even if you pay subscriptions these days. They still track all your activity and then sell it or use it to train AI models that they will make you pay for again.
How does Lemmy, Tor or Signal make us the product?
Paying never works. Libre software does.