All these boycotts I can't join since I never paid for them in the first place 😢
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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You were just boycotting before it was cool.
Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local... toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies
LLMs are already shit. Going local is still burning the world just to run a glorified text production machine
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GO self-hosted,
So yours and another comment I saw today got me to dust off an old docker container I was playing with a few months ago to run deepseek-r1:8b on my server's Intel A750 GPU with 8gb of VRAM. Not exactly top-of-the-line, but not bad.
I knew it would be slow and not as good as ChatGPT or whatever which I guess I can live with. I did ask it to write some example Rust code today which I hadn't even thought to try and it worked.
But I also asked it to describe the characters in a popular TV show, and it got a ton of details wrong.
8b is the highest number of parameters I can run on my card. How do you propose someone in my situation run an LLM locally? Can you suggest some better models?
You are playing with ancient stuff that wasn’t even good at release. Try these:
A 4b model performing like a 30b model: https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B
Google open source version of Gemini: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it
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Going local is taxing on your hardware that is extremely expensive to replace. Hell, it could soon become almost impossible to replace. I genuinely don‘t recommend it.
Even if you HAVE to use LLMs for some reason, there are free alternatives right now that let Silicon Valley bleed money and they‘re quickly running out of it.
Cancelling any paid subscription probably hurts them more than anything else.
If LLM is tied to making you productive, going local is about owning and controlling the means of production.
You aren't supposed to run it on machine you work on anyway, do a server and send requests.
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not just chatgpt.
Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.
All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.
The only option is to log off and find an alternative.
Google ?
Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Nestle...
... in fact, forget buying altogether.
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Apparently, they just took somebody else's idea and made it all about ChatGPT:
QuitGPT is in the mold of Galloway’s own recently launched campaign, Resist and Unsubscribe.
Resist and Unsubscribe encourages you to get away from Google and Amazon, as well as OpenAI. QuitGPT endorses both (Google directly, Amazon indirectly).
Resist and Unsubscribe is a holistic project; QuitGPT cuts out everything except for one product.
Resist and Unsubscribe doesn't inadvertently promote a single product; QuitGPT practically functions as a sneaky advertising campaign (kind of like how Larry David said he wouldn't invest in FTX).
It seems pretty clear which project is better, even if I don't agree with everything the guy behind it said:
Galloway argued that the best way to stop ICE was to persuade people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions.
I don't think voting with your dollars will make a huge difference when every ChatGPT subscription costs OpenAI money, but go off I guess
Unsubscribe from all the things.
Except my VPN. You don't need to know where I live. And my IPTV.
but be careful of which VPN provider you’re using. Mulvad is a good option
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Unless you're (not you PhoenixDog specifically, the general You referring to the reader) blocking your browser fingerprinting, using Ad blocker, DNS filtering from trusted sources, not using social media app, not installing apps that require Google Play Services and not using your credit card for digital payments then simply changing the IP address that the server sees doesn't do very much.
VPNs can be part of a solution but if you are not doing all of the other things then they do not hide who you are because of the plethora of other avenues that you can be tied to an existing advertising identity.
Yeah, VPN's are unfortunately essential. If I hadn't made it a project to request deletion of my info off the top 30 background check sites, I'd be using something like DeleteMe too.
I just unsubscribed from my landlord
Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?
Businesses do and try to get employees to use it... Stupid
Well the fucked up part is businesses also want to see how well their "investment" AI is doing, which means tracking how much employees use the AI and other cooked up metrics. You can't get away from it no matter how irritating it makes your job and life.
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Educational institutions are buying microsoft services as a trend and we need them to boycott also.
Getting bus pass in my university takes 5 business days so they can "save cost on students who don't use it."
Meanwhile everyone's student gmail implicitly has a subscription to copilot, gemini, and openai at the same time; it doesn't matter if you are using them or not.
Paid by our tuition no doubt.
People pay for subscription to ask AI?
Grok/Mechahitler owner likely has donated more to GOP/Trump rule. Anthropic CEO wrote an essay that outlined dangers of AI recently, but also underlined how the pure good US must develop Skynet to oppress all of the bad evil opposition to the US empire.
The entire industry is lining up to get US government military/surveillance applications to use the absurd level of datacenters/energy that are being committed to, because "Skynet now or China wins" is even more aggressive consensus than "too big to fail".
Yes agree, i have quit MSFT fully (switched to Ubuntu), Amazon prime is gone and no longer buying from them. Cancelled my Claude subscription, my gmail now auto forwards to my local server, switched my web hosting from AWS to Hetzner, Cancelled my netflix, back to library and jellyfin local server. Same with Spotify. No more Safeway or QFC - Costco is good enough and has the lowest prices locally, or occasionally Trader Joes. Its saving me a whole shit ton of money.
I don't pay for AI. There is no real value in it at massive scale for it to be paid for me. Plus it is harmful. I can local host AI for small tasks like cleaning up some data.
Yep! I feel way, way safer when I use something running on my laptop as opposed to feeding things into the bottomless hole that is Microsoft or Anthropic.
All I want is something to double-check the verbiage of an email to make sure I'm not coming off like an asshole.
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If you thought the banks were too big to fail, get ready for this fucking bailout
Honestly, people are probably going to start using it much less once they put in ads on the the low and free tiers.
They're realizing they can't turn profit over expenses when the VC money dries up without jacking price.
Same shit different fad. Offshoring was all the rage until the demand meant they started charging more, the quality went down, and the reality of cross-timezone management became obvious. Cloud was all the rage until the prices went up from demand and also kept running into outages, and now some companies are "re-inhousing" their infrastructure.
Cant' wait till they realize they also can't deliver at regular clip with only half the workers. Wont' be soon enough, alas.
I've been a long time user and subscriber of ChatGPT plus. It has helped me tremendously and I probably wouldn't be where I am without it.
I canceled mt subscription recently. I won't continue to give money to ClosedAI. There are alternatives.
Sam Altman can burn in hell.
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I kinda wish I'd been using it so I could quit!
You can subscribe to chatGPT?
Yes. I think it’s like $20 a month.
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Edit: LMAO so I was fuck-off wrong. It's $10, $30, and $280 per month. At least in my currency (Swedish Crowns).
Don't use the stochastic parrot, and definitely don't fucking shell out 280 a month for it. Holy fuck.
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Or better yet Unsubscribe but dont stop using ths service, if enough go from paying customer to wasteful freeloader they will lose even more.
Not sure if it works like that.
Just from using their platform you're giving them value, at least in the form of data.
Not to mention, LLMs are very resource intensive to run. They slurp up obscene amounts of electricity and water. That's kind of a problem for a planet that's already getting boiled.
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It blows my mind people actually subscribe to mostly wrong answers.
Any reference to Trump's donors to back that Gepeto is the biggest one? I would like to see the top 10 or 100 list...
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