I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast
… There are limitations, of course, but they're not very "limiting" As promising as a hybrid workflow sounds, it does have its limitations. …
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Claude is better than Gemini for Python, but it's unusable until Anthropic fixes this one problem
… I have come to realize, however, that generative capability is only one piece of the puzzle. …
Your motherboard's smallest PCIe slot can do much more than you think
…Whether your motherboard is too old or otherwise limited, you can enhance its capabilities with cheap expansion cards instead of buying a whole new motherboard. For high-performance devices like NVMe and…
I switched from ChatGPT Plus to Claude Pro, and I haven’t regretted my decision
… In just the month of March alone, they added memory capability to the free plan, released support for Excel and PowerPoint, added the ability to assign tasks to your computer from your phone, and added the ability for Claude Code to open your apps, click through UI, and test builds on its own. …
I used Claude Code with a local LLM on Ollama, and it’s surprisingly capable for something that's free
… The limitations show up when you ask it to coordinate changes across multiple files, since that is where a 9B model starts to lose track of context. …
DisplayPort is everywhere except TVs, and it's quietly limiting PC gamers
…The CPU may not be capable enough to run everything, software can be sluggish, and wireless capabilities can be lacking. Then there's the fact that most TV sets come with the…
Your NAS is wasted if it is just a dumb storage box — you can do a lot more with it
… You aren't limited to lightweight Docker containers, so your OS experiments aren't tied to the limitations of your host machine's OS. …
Running Proxmox on my ASUS NUC 14 Pro Plus taught me where mini PCs still fall short
… The hardware is fast, but expansion gets tight quickly Proxmox makes small hardware limitations much harder to ignore The first thing that impressed me was how normal Proxmox felt on the NUC 14 Pro Plus. …
HDMI is just as confusing as USB-C — and that's a problem
… You could be stuck at 60Hz instead of 120Hz, miss out on features like VRR, or run into other limitations that you might not even notice right away, because unlike USB-C, HDMI doesn't fail outright. …
I replaced my local LLM with a model half its size and got better results — And it wasn't about the parameters
…And then I started to push the context limits After seeing what Qwen was capable of with the same context length, and my fans weren’t even ramping up, I wanted to…