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You may be right, but whatever happens with OpenAI and the military, I'd rather not be personally contributing money towards it.
Are you paying taxes?
Not to the USA.
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#192This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…
The big AI labs are almost certainly selling inference below cost and burning mountains of money. With the insane increase in hardware prices, running models locally just doesn’t make any financial sense.
We are not in this thread because of finances but because of safety from oppressive governments and bad big corps. It's for you to decide the price of your own safety.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
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What local options are on par with ChatGPT?
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?
A Strix Halo with 128GB unified memory is less than $2k and the more suitable alternative to a mac. I'm pretty happy with my device (Bosgame M5).
the macs outperform it and I figure it's a better general purpose computer than strix halo. if budget is a problem, then a strix halo is a decent alternative.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#195This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…
I have a 24GB Macbook Pro. I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans. The Macbook Pro has an internal fan, and the Mac Studio (bigger Mac Mini) has a fan. If you get a Mini, you might want to get one of those docks that cools the Mini. Your hardware will get very hot very quickly. Also, because Apple in their infinite wisdom despite giving you a fan, very lazily…
>> I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans
I have a base model M4 Mac Mini and it absolutely does have a fan inside it.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#196This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…
And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?
GPUs are not going obsolete anytime soon. the nvidia p40/p100 launched in 2016, 10 years ago and is popular in the local space. My first set of GPUs were a bunch of P40s from 3 years ago for $150 a piece. They at one point went up all the way to $450, but price is now down to $200 range. I think I have gotten my value from those and I suspect I'll still have them crunching out tokens for at least 3 more years. They still beat 90% of cpu/memory inference combo.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
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> No lock-in
Shouldn't Google have gone out of business?
I would agree it's one piece of the puzzle.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#198I've just cancelled my subscription in solidarity with the OpenAI employees who signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter. I was a daily user of paid features like Deep Research. But not only was Anthropic's decision more ethical, their products are better, so I can't possibly justify the expense. Honestly I mostly was subscribed to take pressure off of my Claude usage limits, but I've just upped my Claude subscription to the next tier instead.
ETA: I've started an export of all my data. After that's done, I'm going to delete it all from my account (Settings > Data controls) and walk away from the account. I will give this to OpenAI, they make the process of disentangling yourself straightforward and there's integrity in that.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#199This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…
Or you can get a strix halo from AMD. They run about $2k from various Chinese brands, or a bit more from Framework. 128GBs of unified RAM are plenty for most models, although memory bandwidth is slower than in a mac.
Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
A Strix Halo with 128GB unified memory is less than $2k and the more suitable alternative to a mac. I'm pretty happy with my device (Bosgame M5).
Can you elaborate more on your use cases, models, setup,...?
I took my setup from here: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes
Still lot to learn, but after a while you have something like Qwen3-Coder-Next-Q8_0 running and - at least for me - it works quite well, both as ChatGPT like chat-interface using llama.cpp and as coding agent