alt Hacker News> Even if the hardware keeps improving - debatable - a personal device is never going to be able to compete, in any sense, with an international network of data centres.
There's one way to deal with this, but I doubt it'll be popular in these parts: Communal ownership of the means of production.
Don't use the oligarchy's AI. Your personal hardware is going to be too weak. But together, we can own our own server farms.
"Communal ownership of the means of production" evokes an image of a hippy co-op trying to buy pallets of GPUs, or something, which is probably why it sounds unattainable. But if you reorient that to something more along the lines of, "the Mullvad of hosted llama.cpp", then it actually doesn't seem that far out of reach.