Heh, you shouldn’t be paying for LLMs. Gemini 2.5 Pro is free, and so are a bunch of great API models. ChatGPT kinda sucks these days (depending on the content).

I have technical reasons for running local models (instant cached responses, constrained grammar, logprob output, finetuning), and I can help you set that up if you want, but TBH I am not going into a long technical proof of why that’s advantageous unless you really want to try this all yourself.

Yeah I mean it really depends on the app.

If it just occasionally peaks, maybe modest zram and low swappiness is all you need.

But sometimes i crack it up (and basically disable zram) because I’m paging like 4x my RAM pool size onto ssds with big files.

Is this a tariff thing? Like is it suddenly more expensive to license Windows, hence pushing OEMs to offer discount options?

Lenovo is at least partially Chinese.