I’m running deepseek-r1:14b on a 12GB rx6700. It just about fits in memory and is pretty fast.

I’m using an Rx6700xt which you can get for about £300 and it works fine.

Edit: try using ollama on your PC. If your CPU is capable, that software should work out the rest.

My theory is more based on vibes and multiple continuous layoffs from the majority companies over the last few years.

The only thing that we can be pretty much certain on is that the banks think twitter is overvalued and think other Investors see it as undervalued.

I’m not an econ major but I’m going to give you my theory anyway.

We’ve been circling the drain on a major global recession for two years. We’ve been avoiding it through sheer denial.

Nobody ever mentions it, but tech stocks were the first to take a beating in 2008. The reason is that they’re actually kinda worthless and just a place where billionaires gamble the way trust fund kids do with cryptocurrency. There’s just not really that much collateral in digital property. Unlike land, it’s value can just disappear overnight if people decide it’s uncool.

When asset managers are about to be called on their bets and have to find money somewhere, the first thing they’ll do is sell tech shares to bail out other investments. Houses will always have some value even if you end up having to manage it yourself, whereas any social network risks going the way of MySpace.

Twitter being in trouble isn’t just a sign that twitter is in trouble, but that investors need that money for something safer, and if they’re looking for something safer that may mean sheer denial isn’t working anymore.

and again

So, capitalism then.

passed on turning Germany and Japan into colonies

I occasionally see job ads in the UK that require US citizenship.

You buy several matching sets and can’t match the lids to the tubs so you buy more sets and make the problem worse.

You also have one piece of cutlery that you hate and you don’t know where it came from. You don’t get rid of it though. You’d sooner do the washing up while starving than use that stupid slightly wider fork, but it stays in the draw just in case.

This is actually pretty interesting. I wish I could pin someone else’s comment. Thanks.