The best hardware investment I ever made was in my network attached storage and it's not even close
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For me it was switching from windows to Mac and getting the Mac Studio
Interesting. Tempted by this; can it run the LLAMA models locally for example? What is it delivering for you that a standard machine doesn't?
Ya you can. I run the 70B ones fine.
Id say my overall productivity is higher one a Mac
Agreed here also. Especially Pages, nothing comes close on Linux.
For me it's a toss-up between my X230's and my Protectli vault.
Lenovo M720q tiny running proxmox.
Pi hole
Nextcloud
Truenas
MyNode
Absolutely in love with that little machine!