I tend to use budget desktop machines --- particularly for testing but also for development. Does this mean I'm not a nerd?
One reason is I tend to make significant use of pre-compiled libraries so my build times tend to be reasonable.
And I also like the feedback from testing on a lower powered machine. If it runs well on a low end machine, better hardware is generally not a problem.
The reverse is often not the case. Software blunders can be completed masked with enough hardware.
I tend to use budget desktop machines --- particularly for testing but also for development. Does this mean I'm not a nerd?
One reason is I tend to make significant use of pre-compiled libraries so my build times tend to be reasonable.
And I also like the feedback from testing on a lower powered machine. If it runs well on a low end machine, better hardware is generally not a problem.
The reverse is often not the case. Software blunders can be completed masked with enough hardware.
Like to point out, Z image turbo puts out frontier quality images in a reasonable time on a local device.
But since it requires less than 16gb, the author is still right.
Video games are how I justify a big computer I don't need. Local LLMs are how I amortize that spending.