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Low to midrange systems (8-32 GB) vs. free cloud tiers

8GB VRAM RTX 3070 + 32 GB DDR5 + 1TB NVMe SSD - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU - putting this here in case it’s substantially better than the BC-250

Yes this can run Qwen 3.6 35b-a3b pretty nicely! And they might be releasing an updated version of that soon. Your BC-250 only has 16GB total which is not enough for 35b.

I also have 32GB RAM and 8GB VRAM, my computer is a little slower than yours, see my guide: https://lemmus.org/post/24235317

For the BC-250 you might try smaller models like Ling 3.0 Tiny, Ornith 1.5 9b, or Gemma 4 12b QAT

For your 8GB RAM devices, you can run Gemma 4 e4b QAT, Qwen 3.5 4b, or maybe Ling 3.0 Tiny

I’m a noob to local LLMs.

Use Unsloth Desktop or llama.cpp. Then you can connect Zoo Code to it, that's a VSCode extension which I like for programming with my local LLMs.

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Introducing Qwen3.8-27B Dynamic v3 Unsloth GGUFs

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They don't tell us things lol. All they said was

Which sounds like there's something "better" coming, but doesn't deny the possibility of 35b-a3b. Which is weird because "better" is subjective and depends on your hardware. It could be smaller and smarter than 3.6 35b, but then people are gonna ask for a 3.8 35b because it should be even smarter.

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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear

There are other ways investigators could have connected activity to Ono. He may have used Nyaa without a VPN while logged into an account. Data from website cookies or content-delivery-network logs could also have been matched with Nyaa activity and tracker records. CODA has not said whether any of those methods were used.

VPN isn't enough, you gotta worry about fingerprinting and cookies too. Recently it was revealed that Windows 11 has strong fingerprinting options that could be used to track you.

I wonder if they were using a VPN or seedbox. You could even do remote desktop into seedbox and browse the sites from there.

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How can I avoid vinyl rips on Soulseek?

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Old music doesn't get re-recorded for digital releases, they pull it from the original master again, which is better and more authentic than vinyl.

I mean if you went to a concert would you want them to add hiss and pop to the performance so it sounds more like vinyl? Lol certainly you wouldn't want them to intentionally worsen the signal-to-noise ratio