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I tried building a small RAG search node for Qwen3.8 27B using a fake AliExpress Mini PC... and Intel sent me back to 2018.

I love Qwen3.8 27B so much that I decided to show my gratitude to the Alibaba ecosystem by building a dedicated RAG/search node using a cheap Mini PC from AliExpress. Turns out, my ecosystem loyalty got rewarded with an absolute masterpiece of fraud: Promised: Intel N150 + DDR4/DDR5 Delivered: Core…

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  1. 2026-10-03 07:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I tried building a small RAG search node for Qwen3.8 27B using a fake AliExpress Mini PC... and Intel sent me back to 2018.

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