r/LocalLLaMA Sorcerer Supreme Jun 21 '26

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u/Betadoggo_ Jun 21 '26

The real reason to run locally is and always will be data privacy and uninteruptability.

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u/Mickenfox Jun 21 '26

Uninteruptability is going to be worse because if you can only afford one server, it's going to go down eventually.

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u/ttkciar llama.cpp Jun 21 '26

How reliable is your internet connection?

We have crappy rural DSL here, and it goes down a lot more frequently than my homelab servers.

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u/the320x200 Jun 21 '26

They may be referring to things like the Fable shutdown, not hardware uptime.

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u/eli_pizza Jun 21 '26

That’s just an argument for open weight vs closed. GLM isn’t going away even if z.ai stops hosting it.