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Going local is taxing on your hardware that is extremely expensive to replace. Hell, it could soon become almost impossible to replace. I genuinely don‘t recommend it.
Even if you HAVE to use LLMs for some reason, there are free alternatives right now that let Silicon Valley bleed money and they‘re quickly running out of it.
Cancelling any paid subscription probably hurts them more than anything else.
It's not really taxing on your hardware unless you load and unload huge models all day or if your cooling is insufficient.
If LLM is tied to making you productive, going local is about owning and controlling the means of production.
You aren't supposed to run it on machine you work on anyway, do a server and send requests.