[satvikpendem]

I do. I can take my laptop anywhere I want, for example to a coffee shop and run a coding model while eating a croissant without worrying about an internet connection, as the term local model implies.

[taffydavid]

And you can warm up the croissant by just placing it on the trackpad while you wait for the LLM to finish

[satvikpendem]

Exactly, it's a built in reheater.

[nozzlegear]

The coffee shop doesn't have wifi?

[fragmede]

It's not very good and SSH is blocked.

[drnick1]

I always use a VPN (to my own home server) for this reason (and other reasons) when connecting to public WiFi.