Anyone still using lastpass in 2026 deserves this, I'm sorry but this company has proven time and time again they should not be trusted. I migrated off them years ago after one of these breaches and haven't looked back since.

I dropped Chrome about 2 years ago. FireFox does everything I need it to do and more.

I have a M5 MAX with 128, local models are toys compared to hosted ones. I've spent a lot of time and money trying to make it work even 1/2 as well.

It all depends on what you want to do, I guess.

If you're seeking the kind of hands-off claude experience, obviously not. They are slow.

If you want to learn how these things work, train them locally, tinker, play with the code, grasp the fundamentals, or just out of sheer bloody-mindedness and principle refuse to tether the functioning of your application to a cloud API...

I have the same processor and ram. The dense 30b ish Gemma/Qwen really don't break 10 TPS with or without MTP. MOE's in this range feel more usable if they are smart enough for your work. Probably would still use hosted versions of these over local unless. MOE's feel somewhere between sonnet 3.5 and 3.7 to me. Dense feels between sonnet 3.7 and 4 in basic coding or local agentic capabilities (not close to those in chat or world knowledge)

From an economical point of view, there's almost no point to using these locally running models. The only things they are good for would be dirt cheap using the smaller/older models via some API as well. Recovering the investment for the hundreds/thousands you spend extra on hardware easily funds a lot of that. Unless you are using this stuff at scale, it's probably not going to be worth it.

I've dabbled with Qwen 3.x and Gemma 4 models a bit. They are alright but not that impressive. And my mac gets super hot if I use them for extended periods of time. It's just not very nice to use locally.

Probably have to turn it upside down to charge it

Goodness, that's a 10x increase since I got mine in 2014, no way in HELL I'd pay their new price. What on earth are they thinking.

They can't get out of SES sandbox /s

Everytime I read these post I'm glad I bought a lifetime pass 12 years ago, very well got my $$'s worth over the years.

Why? I use to manage one on a classified air-gapped network, back before Atlassian was all Cloud Based or 'Data Center' license junk. We had Stash, Jira, Confluence, FishEye, HipChat, everything hosted on a non-internet connected network.

Rarely is it worth it for me to deal w/ AirBnb type places anymore. After all the fees and extra work trying to understand each of their 'rules' I find getting a hotel is just easier. Unless I'm trying to stay at a particular destination for several days in a row and need a 'home base' hotels are just more convenient as long as all I need is a place to crash at night. They make the beds and cook me breakfast and I don't even have to start the washing machine when I leave...

Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...