On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM George M. Rimakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> $20/mo will buy you a ChatGPT subscription which I think is more than > adequate for any M100 project. > > The size of whatever project you are working on, by virtue of it being > designed for a small system, will fit in the models context window. Plus > whatever other context you need to provide. > > Maybe you can fine tune Gemma 4 or something to run locally, but I’m > pretty sure it will cost you much more than $20 a month, and won’t be as > good as Codex. > > But honestly if you want to do it just to do it, that’s a totally > different story :D > > There isn’t a ton of practicality in tinkering with these old machines > anyway, just for fun. > > -George > > Yeah I have had odd behaviors from Gemini. Like it gets tired and cranky and starts making up excuses to not do things. I have a free subscription since i take some college classes and they offer free access. But it just refuses to work sometimes, I don't know if it is trying to limit compute cycles. For me it's really about a) learning to do it and b) being able to share a good / cheap/ reusable system with the community focused on our devices. -- John.
