If you're smart enough to run LLMs locally, then you're automatically in the small group of enthusiasts who know something about LLMs and how they work.
Sometimes I wonder if HN people really realize 80% of people out there haven't even heard of ChatGPT, and the remaining 19% have not heard about Claude/Gemini. It's only a small group who know local models exist. We're them, and we complain about their security...
To be fair, if you expand Gemini to "that fucking Google thing that ruined Google with; hey Grandson, how do I turn this off?", a lot of people have heard of Gemini, even if they don't know it by its true name.
Sometimes I wonder if HN people really realize 80% of people out there haven't even heard of ChatGPT, and the remaining 19% have not heard about Claude/Gemini. It's only a small group who know local models exist. We're them, and we complain about their security...