I hate this group but not literally

True story, I got interested in AI after seeing it at work and wanted to run models locally. I started with an M3 Ultra 96GB, quickly learned it was not enough for what I wanted, and kept upgrading hardware (including refurbished Mac Studios at 256GB/512GB and now an RTX Pro 6000 that arrived today). I tested many model families (Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma, Minimax, etc.). My current favorite is MiniMax M2.7 230B/A10B. I’m also waiting for LM Studio for DeepSeek v4 Flash. I have mixed feelings: excitement about local speed/bandwidth and sadness about how much money I spent learning this stack.