Post #2231589
2026-03-08 13:08 UTC
@leeg@fosstodon.org @jani@floss.social None. It's impractically slow for actual work-use, but I run qwen3-coder-next on a little ~€750 AMD machine with regular 64GiB DDR5 DIMMs. Granted, I got that RAM 2.5 years ago before the craze. But with Strix Halo hardware I'd say its feasible.
Like you said, how accessible was hardware, let alone software, in the early days of (personal) computing? I paid ~€130 for a STUDENT license Visual C++ in ~1998!
The original premisse feels almost entitled.
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@jani@floss.social 2026-03-08 13:45
@RandySimons@mastodon.social @leeg@fosstodon.org The point is not just about the money. When you bought that Visual C++ license, you knew you could use it as long as you wished, regardless of whether the vendor went belly up or discontinued the product or decided they didn't want you or anyone in your country as a customer. If you want to avoid that lock-in, the hardware cost is significant, and recurring.