Checking out my tires, I may be looking at some new ones in another 10k miles. I know there was a lot of chatter in here a year ago about Cross Climate 2 as a good replacement. Anyone install those and been running on them for at least 12months, if so how have they turned out?
When I leased my 2024 Ariya, I did so with the intention of returning it and leasing a new EV in 2 years time. As fast as the EV market had changed from 2022 to 2024, I hoped for similar change and the opportunity to upgrade to “the latest” in 2026.
That pace of change didn’t happen IMO but more importantly I really ended up liking my Ariya. Given there is no option (in US) to lease a 2026 Ariya, I’m 90% certain I’m going to buy my 2024 Engage+ e-4ORCE Ariya.
Because my lease vs buy mindset has shifted, any suggestions/gotchas/tips from those of you that have done the same? Obviously it’s the “used car I know” and I will still take advantage of the free end of lease inspection so I’m aware of anything that might need to be investigated/fixed.
Any and all tips appreciated!
I’ve had a lot of false starts with different servers/harnesses. I get something running, it responds to an initial prompt or two then I though something simple at it and it goes off the rails. Anyone successfully running something similar that will share setup?
I have two setups: Mac Studio M4 Max 64 GB and my MacBook Pro M5 24GB. My main setup is the Studio hosting and MBP connecting to it. But I’m also trying to find a small usable model for when I’m traveling that can be a “helper”. I e tried evaluating a few this weekend from Qwen3.5-9B-4bit/8bit, Qwen-coder-2.5 also deepseek-coder-v2-lite-16b-4bit
I tried to get them to work on a single C# file application that will use CSVHelper to read a csv file and output the top 5 records. It’s less than 50 lines of code.
Qwen3.5-9B-8bit created the first pass then got stuck on a bug (non-existent property, which technically exists in another class but not the one it was focused on). Then tried all the other models to say “see this HeaderRecord bug, explain how to fix it”
Well none of them ever did. I’m using Opencode and 32k to 48k context windows (none ever hit that). They just couldn’t do it. This doesn’t seem to me to be some major agentic challenge for these size models but maybe it is?
What are all you using? I keep seeing posts/articles about people able to get some real work done with some of these models and I’m just not seeing it. Seems the only real usable models need my 64gb Mac Studio. What could I be doing wrong or are all these people just doing light chats or “show me a basic loop” function but nothing really working-level
I’m in the middle of reading a post/comments/linked story. Set my phone down for 5 minutes to deal with IRL stuff, pick up my phone “wake it” and Reddit instantly auto-refreshes dumping me out of the story/post I was reading. Either this thing needs to stop auto-refreshing or we need a switch to turn this “feature” (absolutely a bug IMO). Why kick someone out of something they are in the middle of reading/interacting with? If anything this stops my active time interacting with app because frankly I can’t be bothered to get back to where I was and find the spot where I left off. And don’t say check my history. That only gets me back to the post and not where I was in the post or linked story and is just a crappy kludge for returning to the content that actually interested me. Can’t tell you how many articles I’ve half-read then fave up on because of this annoying bug.
Note: issue isn’t just the current version. Been occurring for a month+. Just finally got annoyed enough to figure out how to report issues on this platform
This topic came up in a non-Reddit conversation and it got me wondering. Are there concerns? If so how are people mitigating them to prevent potential excessive wear on the internal SSD? Or are the concerns overblown?
Appreciate any insight.
Curious, if anyone has experience with the vMLX? Just stumbled upon it yesterday after reading an article about JANG_4.
Noob here just trying to test some small things out. Ollama and Exo installed (latter to try some slightly larger models). Right now ollama serve with pi running devstral-small-2:24b and have been struggling for a couple hours with it to just review 4 short python scripts and create a test for the scripts. Occasionally it just pauses. No spinning cursor or any indication. I’ll prod it and it will respond with its “still working” yet that seems not the case cause then suddenly it does a lot. Granted “a lot” is relative as it’s been hours and it hasn’t accomplished much. 24GB M5 mbpro. I know not much but I don’t think I’m asking this thing to do much either 🙃
Guess this is more a vent than a question. Pi also went nuts on me and started feeding commands to the console output instead of to model. May go back to opencode.