I was pretty pleased to discover that I could OCR and translate Japanese ROMs to English using local models that fit within my 6GB of VRAM on my laptop. I wouldn’t want to play a narrative heavy game that way, but it was sufficient to read menus and make choices in more action oriented games.
While i ment at home. Im going to be honest giving it a few moments thought. Since your already traveling you likely have a laptop. A ryzen laptop while expensive. Arn’t really that much more then a good work station/gaming laptop both are fucking over priced as fucking hell right now to be fair. But your paying 3.5-4k either way. A ryzen laptop with lpddr is like 3800-4000 dollars for 128 gigs of ram. You could totally do a local model right from your hotel room.
Frankly i would say this is a more realistic option after the bubble goes pop and you can pick up something like this for like 2000 bucks. Since the laptops tend to be really nice reguardless and at least justifiable around that price point.
I didn’t mention this so there’s no way you could’ve known but this is not realistic for my situation.
I travel a lot for my job, most of the translations I need are during negotiations or when navigating a new country.
During these situations I quickly look up things on my phone. Carrying around a gaming laptop for these purposes would be highly impractical.
Plus I’m in East Asia so most of my meetings are in restaurants or bars.
Not the most ethical answer but a paid chatgpt subscription.
Even a medium sized local model can do 90% of the job now.
Just gotta set it up ahead of time so you can use it outside the house.
I was pretty pleased to discover that I could OCR and translate Japanese ROMs to English using local models that fit within my 6GB of VRAM on my laptop. I wouldn’t want to play a narrative heavy game that way, but it was sufficient to read menus and make choices in more action oriented games.
I travel a lot so I’m not sure I’d want to have a server running at home. Or do you mean I set it up in my hotel?
While i ment at home. Im going to be honest giving it a few moments thought. Since your already traveling you likely have a laptop. A ryzen laptop while expensive. Arn’t really that much more then a good work station/gaming laptop both are fucking over priced as fucking hell right now to be fair. But your paying 3.5-4k either way. A ryzen laptop with lpddr is like 3800-4000 dollars for 128 gigs of ram. You could totally do a local model right from your hotel room.
Frankly i would say this is a more realistic option after the bubble goes pop and you can pick up something like this for like 2000 bucks. Since the laptops tend to be really nice reguardless and at least justifiable around that price point.
I didn’t mention this so there’s no way you could’ve known but this is not realistic for my situation. I travel a lot for my job, most of the translations I need are during negotiations or when navigating a new country. During these situations I quickly look up things on my phone. Carrying around a gaming laptop for these purposes would be highly impractical. Plus I’m in East Asia so most of my meetings are in restaurants or bars.