Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

Firefox is good enough at this point. For those recommending zen just be cognisant of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 which is not a good look for a "privacy" focused browser.

endorphine · 1d ago

Firefox with uBlock Origin

lekker-kapsalon · 1d ago

Switched to Firefox from Safari a few years ago, it has been great so far.

The only problem I encountered is with the containers feature, I couldn’t set it up for Google products (got an infinite redirect).

mirkodrummer · 19h ago

It's sad they ditched a good browser I would have paid for for a new browser that has a ai chat on the side(what it seems to be so far). Anyway the best it's still Firefox/Zen imo

johnydoe · 1d ago

I’ve been using https://sigmaos.com/ for the past couple of years, and it works very similar

ggm · 1d ago

I went Brave. Some people (lobste.rs) dislike it because of some practices they regard as dodgy in commercialisation/scraping of sites. But, it conforms to chrome codebase and appears to work well.

mickelsen · 6h ago

Yeah, vertical tabs since 2023, included adblock, mostly vanilla Chrome except for the crypto offering that you can just turn off (still seems interesting as a ramp I may eventually use, but through another profile)

jay_kyburz · 1d ago

There are plenty of people here who don't like them either. "Edgy" suggests they are kind of cool. Being an Australian I would use "Dodgy" instead.

ggm · 1d ago

Being an australian, I updated edgy to dodgy

orionblastar · 1d ago

https://vivaldi.com/download/

mkbkn · 23h ago

Zen browser uses a lot of Arc features and is based on Firefox.

fithisux · 1d ago

I use chromium (through scoop) and Zen the last 8 months and I feel very very productive.

I just keep an Edge install / profile for my work because the company uses outlook and azure. But the real work is on the above (jupyter/ reading lecture notes/ bookmarks / social media / github+bitbucket)

Vishal19111999 · 1d ago

What's your review of Zen? Seems like a good option

mkbkn · 23h ago

Not OP, but Zen is very good. So good I now rarely use any Chromium based browsers.

Vishal19111999 · 20h ago

Is Zen not on Chromium?

Will I be able to install Chrome Extensions on it?

mirkodrummer · 19h ago

It is Firefox based, as for extensions no, it uses Firefox store, but popular extensions(like u block origin) are usually published on multiple stores

fithisux · 14h ago

It is FF based. I use Downloadstar to scrap lectures. Chromium does not have one.

fithisux · 14h ago

Fantastic, acceptable performance, no occasional sound like Chromium.

Very stable.

billconan · 1d ago

I will have to move back to chrome I guess

billconan · 1d ago

just found https://zen-browser.app/

Vishal19111999 · 1d ago

How does it compare to Arc?

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