Jonathan Rudderham

Go local, or go loco.

[Jonathan Rudderham @codeRunnerUK]

@xbtlevi It’s always fun seeing William Daniels in some other TV show and you’re like “he sounds like KITT”. That’s really his voice. What a star!

[Jonathan Rudderham @codeRunnerUK]

@ios_dev_alb You often post this kind of thing, but it’s not general.

I will, and have, paid £2.99 and more for an app if it does what I want. I will not, never have, and never will pay over £700 for a phone. And if I pay that, it’s needs to be a ****ing good one!

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I can understand them needing a name with gravitas to sell a film about a guy in a costume when most people’s memories of a “guy with a cape” was the 60s Batman TV series. They risked a flop, so they gambled with a big name. Did they do any different 10 years later when the ”star name” in Batman was Jack Nicholson, not Michael Keaton? Even today, the “names” in the latest Superman movie were the other characters, not the guy playing Superman.

To me at that time, I wanted to see Superman come alive. When I finally got to see the movies, it was for the guy in the costume. Marlon who? And why was Lex Luthor playing it like a joke?

In the long haul, Christopher Reeve made it work and he left behind a legacy that we‘ll always enjoy. Because of Superman. Not because of the names of the actors.

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I’m only on Pro. When I kept hitting the 5-hr limit, my solution was to sub to Codex to pick up the slack until the 5-hr reset. By having the 5-hr limit, Anthropic sent me to their competitors.

I would much rather just have a weekly limit. I only have one or two days off work in a week and I’d like to be able to do all of my coding during that time. Only getting a little bit of work done between resets, and then paying for 5 days of 7 that I can’t use is just a nonsense.

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@superalesha “With local AI, you’re not paying me. Local AI is bad.” 😇

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@bijanbowen @OpenAI No, no - subway shootouts FTW! Every time I play one of your videos, I hear a voice from the other room: “Has he got to the subway bit yet?” I need you to go back through your old videos and insert a subway shootout. 😂

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@Pirat_Nation "How dare you spend your money on RAM for yourself. You should be spending money on me so I can buy the RAM for myself." What an arrogant man.

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I largely agree because that's how I was for most of my life. Then life got in the way, bills had to be paid, and most of the week is taken up doing a non-tech job just to get a few quid to go on living.

Now "staying up late" is no longer an option. Being able to "vibe code with Claude" on the few hours I get to myself on my day off has allowed me to feed my tech/coding "buzz" that I need to see things being developed.

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That’s exactly what I was thinking. You could pay £30K and still not fit the largest open weights models in there. And, even if you out the largest model it can hold on there, it’s not going to be frontier fast anyway. Sometimes, it pays to look at what can be done without just “throwing money at your ego”, which is how some YouTubers come across sometimes.

Something as humble as the M6 Mini with 32GB is quite competent for home AI/LLM work. And you could buy 23 of them for the price of the top 512GB Studio.

You need a real use case to spend £30K for a desktop computer.

I’m glad the 512GB Ultra exists because, if they ever get cost under control, it indicates that the future may bring really outstanding hardware for local AI.

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Regardless of the speed, one machine has one GPU. For the same £30K for the top end 512GB Studio, you could buy 23 M6 Mac minis each with 32GB, each with their own GPU. The former gives you GPU contention with multiple tasks, the latter gives 23 tasks their own GPU. Crazy world.

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@ashxhart At £30K, I was thinking of maybe getting 23x M6 Mac minis 32GB instead. 😂

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@ryanchenkie Given the prices these days, I think the M4 Pro/Max was the good time to upgrade.

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@chriswelch There seems to be more outrage about putting a touchscreen ON a MacBook than there is about a MacBook not including a power charger in some countries. The former is irrelevant, the latter is essential, but the former gets all the outrage. lol.

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@davepl1968 One 512GB Mac Studio, or twenty-three 32GB M6 Mac minis? Oh, the dilemma. lol.

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@digitalix Can’t wait to see Qwen3.8-4B writing a short story on it. lol.

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£30,000+ for the Mac Studio.

I‘m not sure what I’m most gobsmacked by - that Apple expect people to pay that kind of money, or that some people will pay that kind of money.

Still, it’ll be good for another round of blocking YouTube influencers who are more intent on inflating their egos than creating engaging content. Every cloud …

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@MacRumors £2000 for a Pro without a Pro chip and still no charger in the UK? With gags like that, they must be a riot at parties.

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@bijanbowen It’s because it’s INSANE. Once they get it OUT of SANE, you can test it. 😂

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You mean, like the way he says to keep some emergency cash while we've spent the last few decades going cashless. Or that we should get bottled water, while we’ve been told plastic is evil and is destroying the world. Or to stockpile food while taxing us to every penny so we have no spare money to buy with.

Contradictory advice from our government? Who’d have imagined such a thing? 😂

They make everyone dependent on the government and then wonder why we’re not independent of the government. You couldn’t make it up.

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One thing this vulnerability has highlighted is that some people are using systems running on code that’s 15+ years old (mentions of PHP5). We can argue the security implications but I think the takeaway here is that, 15 years later - it’s still working! I think that’s pretty amazing.