I ditched Claude for Obsidian and a local LLM, and miss it less than I expected to
…Now, I've been running better models such as Qwen 3.5 9B and Gemma 4 E4B , and have also tested various local LLM runners beyond LM Studio. But I still did…
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Gemma is a family of open-weight language models released by Google for text generation and related NLP tasks.
This tiny AI companion does what Clippy promised 30 years ago
…version seems to be built on Gemma 3. There's not much difference between the models for what OMNI can handle, and they run locally on your device, so you get privacy…
I rebuilt my VS Code setup from scratch this year, and it's the fastest it's ever been
…Related Your old GPU can still run big LLMs – you just need the right tweaks There's a lot you can do with these models Integrating local LLMs with VS Code increased…
Two old GPUs I salvaged are doing more AI work than a brand new $2000 card, and I won't be upgrading anytime soon
…Sign in to your XDA account Despite the productivity-oriented perks of large language models, there’s the misconception that local LLMs need a lot of computational horsepower to run. Well, it…
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I split my coding work between Claude, Qwen3-Coder and Gemma 4, and it costs less than paying for one subscription
3d agoI solved Gemma 4's biggest problem by routing it through Claude, and all it took was a Python script
1w agoI tested Google's new Gemma 4 12B on my 8GB GPU, and now I don't want to go back to smaller models
1w agoI ran Gemma, Llama, and Qwen on my phone, and only one of them is worth the storage
1w agoGiving a local LLM full VM access showed me why we need better AI guardrails
…switching over to vLLM and the Gemma 4 model I had running there. This didn't go so well. At least it installed the custom provider alright, but nothing worked when I…
I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding)
…And that wasn't completely baseless - I'd tried Google's Gemma-3n-E4B before, which runs on a completely different architecture, and it kind of confirmed that bias.The context window…
I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead
…The extension can even spin up a llama.cpp environment But I’ve paired it with bulky models running on local llama-server instances As for the models, llama-vscode includes built…
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
…Sign in to your XDA account I’ve started pairing my FOSS applications with self-hosted LLMs running on my Ollama and LM Studio instances, and AI-powered workflows have made my…
Intel's $949 GPU has 32GB of VRAM for local AI, but the software is why Nvidia keeps winning
…Ollama is, for better or worse, how a lot of people interact with local LLMs for the first time. It's the tool that makes running models as simple as ollama run…
I ditched Claude Pro for free tools for a week — and one of them had no right being this good
…But I also have Gemini open half the time, Qwen running locally almost every day, and a couple of other AI tools in rotation, none of which I'm paying for. So…