Strange problem with huggingface-cli

I use Linux, Ubuntu, fast nvme drives
I was downloading models with huggingface-cli many, many times before, so I am not doing anything new
I was removing whole .cache to clear the previous file
I don’t see any XET env

$ pip freeze
aiohappyeyeballs==2.6.1
aiohttp==3.12.13
aiosignal==1.3.2
annotated-types==0.7.0
anyio==4.9.0
attrs==25.3.0
certifi==2025.6.15
charset-normalizer==3.4.2
datasets==3.6.0
dill==0.3.8
distro==1.9.0
filelock==3.18.0
frozenlist==1.7.0
fsspec==2025.3.0
h11==0.16.0
httpcore==1.0.9
httpx==0.28.1
huggingface-hub==0.33.0
idna==3.10
jiter==0.10.0
multidict==6.5.0
multiprocess==0.70.16
numpy==2.3.0
openai==1.88.0
packaging==25.0
pandas==2.3.0
propcache==0.3.2
pyarrow==20.0.0
pydantic==2.11.7
pydantic_core==2.33.2
python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
pytz==2025.2
PyYAML==6.0.2
requests==2.32.4
six==1.17.0
sniffio==1.3.1
toml==0.10.2
tqdm==4.67.1
typing-inspection==0.4.1
typing_extensions==4.14.0
tzdata==2025.2
urllib3==2.5.0
xxhash==3.5.0
yarl==1.20.1
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