Comment by 2001zhaozhao
Comment by 2001zhaozhao 18 hours ago
It really is cursed to be spending hundreds of watts of power in a datacenter somewhere to make a laptop run slightly faster.
Comment by 2001zhaozhao 18 hours ago
It really is cursed to be spending hundreds of watts of power in a datacenter somewhere to make a laptop run slightly faster.
> using the local model (Ollama) is 'free' in terms of watts since my laptop is on anyway
Now that’s a cursed take on power efficency
oh absolutely. burning a coal plant to decide if i should close discord is peak 2025 energy. strictly speaking, using the local model (Ollama) is 'free' in terms of watts since my laptop is on anyway, but yeah, if the inefficiency is the art, I'm the artist.