you should they’re super fun

a fursuit is not a requirement for being a furry

Anything with a CPU and enough RAM can run a model if you do not give a single fuck about performance.

Even if I took every word of this at face value, I feel like people would notice the CPU usage pretty quickly, from the heat coming off the chip if nothing else. Local inference is about as subtle as a coinminer.

paperclip with cat ears taps on your screen

It looks like your only exposure to the furry fandom is watching cringe compilations that zoom in only on the 0.1% worst members of the fandom and sensationalize and distort the facts even about them. You could use some changes to your media diet. Would you like help with that?

There is a much more common third type of furry: “I want a fursuit soooo bad but I don’t have $10k+ lying around so in the meantime I guess I’ll go to furry conventions and {have sex,just hang out} without one”

Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.