John Doe (@DoeOnChain) “the cloud's whole pitch was that this model could not live in your house, this o” — TopicDigg

the cloud's whole pitch was that this model could not live in your house, this one is sitting under a tree someone got an EVO-X2 for christmas, the Strix Halo box, 128GB on a desk he ssh'd in and ran a heavy model locally, the kind of job people rent cloud gpus for the tell, it used only 63% of the memory, the box was barely trying point Claude Code at a machine like this and it runs in your room, nothing leaving the network, nothing on the meter this is the thing the cloud said had to live in a datacenter, wrapped up as a gift the edge was never the cloud, the edge is the meter being off my breakdown is the cheap version of this, one AMD box doing what two $200 subscriptions rent you the model already left the cloud, most people just have not opened the box yet i did the full math on what this box kills in the article below