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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by palata on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:44AM (#49152946)
> I'm still cleaning up multi-GB model weights floating around in hidden subdirectories under my user profile from months ago when I was experimenting with local models!

Are you trying to say that local models are hard to use because... you're having issues handling files properly? I am not sure I get the argument.

I get the rest of the comment: local models require an investment upfront, and it is less convenient. It doesn't say that it is not cheaper, though.

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by gpugreg on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:36AM (#49153884)
> you're having issues handling files properly?

I guess they were using ollama, which does not tell you where it puts the models it downloads.

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by accrual on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:57AM (#49155189)
Filelight / ncdu are my friends for finding random 30GB directories containing cached models.
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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by gpugreg on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:47AM (#49155763)
Personally, I prefer QDirStat. I just tried to use FileLight to compare, but the package seems to be broken on Lubuntu.
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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by jiggawatts on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:11PM (#49161484)
You two have just listed several tools needs to clean up after another tool: not a strong argument for “simpler”.
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