llama.cpp works on windows too (or any os for that matter), though linux will vive you better performances

Buying second hand 3090/7090xtx will be cheaper for better performances if you are not building the rest of the machine.

You are limited by bandwidth not compute with llm, so accelerator won’t change the interferance tp/s

You are easier to track with Adnauseum

Even dumber than that, when their activation method fail, the support uses massgrev to install windows on costumer pc

Some ips are shadowbanned, if you are using a VPN/proxy it might be the reason.

https://tiz-cycling-live.io/livestream.php

Be sure to use an adblocker, some times the stream get taken down and you have to wait 1/2 min for them to repost one.

Yeah was kinda drunk when I wrote this comment

I use it + portmaster + O&O to kill all of windows spyware, this is great software and should be recommended if you have to run windows

Edited typo

In my experience SearX is the search engine that gives the best result for me once configurated to my liking, even beating google ( by getting some of google’s results ). The only downside is that sometimes the instances I use are down and I have to use another.