…Related This 5-year-old GPU handles local LLMs better than the newest from Nvidia The RTX 3090 has aged beautifully for local AI, thanks to its solid performance and VRAM Tesla…
…So I ended up reaching for my local LLM instead. Privacy is one of the main reasons I installed one anyway. Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude…
…Related I started self-hosting LLMs and absolutely loved it Who needs OpenAI when your home lab can do the thinking for you? Open WebUI is the frontend A clean interface for…
…Sign in to your XDA account When I first got into self-hosting LLMs , I went straight for a general-purpose model. OpenAI's gpt-oss 20B seemed like a safe pick…
…Sure, you can download a 230B mixture-of-experts model for free, but it's not free to run . You need a workstation that costs as much as a car, and even…
…consumer GPU. It's good enough that for a lot of tasks, it genuinely gives better results than the cloud models do. For anyone who's been waiting for local LLMs to…
…Sign in to your XDA account Local LLMs have gone from a curiosity thing I poked at, to something I actually use on the regular now. Not for everything - cloud AI still…
…be able to fit the networking cards or the discrete GPU options that it decided would work for Jellyfin and local LLMs. It decided that Ceph was the best storage option, and…
…You should be aware of GPU offloading, context window limits, token budgets, and when to move to a new session. Whereas for Claude Code, you only need to know how to open…
…Tool calling that's baked into the architecture This model is great for practical uses One of the things that's held back local LLMs for agentic workflows is tool calling. Most…