The same LLMs you have to rent from the very richest people on earth? I would be careful to call that freedom
Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
by papyrus9244 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:38AM
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You know you can run LLMs on your own computer, right?
If you can afford a computer that can run LLMs, sure.
"afford" in this case has to be compared to the cost of renting.
Of course. Someone who pays 150$ a year for Claude Pro would need years to get to a 4k machine.
150$/month, for year...
I've seen businesses that made the infrastructure to share a 100k machine. They needed it "on premise", but the setup did not look too hard and the results were outstanding compared to Claude Opus.
> 150$/month, for year...
Claude Pro is 15$/month. Not everybody can afford 150$/month.
Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
by jasonvorhe on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:30AM
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There's people running close to frontier model grade local AI on consumer and prosumer hardware, let's not act as if it was impossible to skip having to rent from OpenAI or Anthropic.
Have you seen hardware prices? They are so high that it's not even affordable for upper middle class in most of the world.
Omarchy is itself MIT licensed, with no restrictions that I'm aware of. If they later decide to make a paid version or something, the license wouldn't stop them, I think. But GPL would. All in all, I think it's a dumb move from Asahi because their GPL'd code will soon be eaten up LLMs that don't give a damn about licensing anyway.
I mean, I get the poisoning the well of open source thing that some companies do. I didn't think Omarchy was trying to do that.
With how good LLMs are at reverse engineering, I've been looking forward being able to ditch MacOS and still have decent hardware soonish.
Taking back the ownership of our devices to run our software is the positive future LLMs are giving us. We need only take action.