… A traditional browser like Chrome or Edge is a container. You open it, see a search bar, a bookmark bar, and an infinite graveyard of tabs. The Google app feels like a native extension of Windows. Instead of clicking an icon on my taskbar and waiting for a window to load, I hit Alt + Space . …
… The plan was to eventually pair Home Assistant with a local LLM. After all, the mini PC's 32GB of RAM handles smaller models easily. Flashing Home Assistant OS on the mini PC was straightforward. …
… It solves the problem, it covers most edge cases, it writes real tests, and it doesn't over-engineer. For developers who don’t need an AI assistant to do all the thinking for them, MiniMax is probably the best Claude alternative I’ve tested. …
… It is known for its simplicity and Unix-like philosophy, and it continues to be maintained to this day. Not quite — the answer is Slackware, released in 1993 by Patrick Volkerding. While Debian was also founded in 1993, Slackware narrowly edges it out as the older release. …
… So I finally bit the bullet and gave it a spin for the past couple of weeks to see if local AI on my phone could actually replace ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini… Want to stay in the loop with the latest in AI? …
… Quiz 8 Questions · Test Your Knowledge You don't need a beefy GPU to run a local LLM Trivia challenge Think you know your way around local AI? Test your knowledge of running LLMs without breaking the bank. …
… Recommended RAM: 8 GB What it's best for: writing, explanations, everyday chat, light brainstorming What I like about it: the jump in coherence and structure over sub-1B models, without giving up much speed What it struggles with: there's a noticeable lag on long outputs, and it's still not a heavy… …
… It's still bleeding edge; while Gemma 4 E4B has a native audio conformer encoder, the support is very new. For example, when support first arrived, longer clips that exceeded the batch size would cause it to fail , and users would need to manually raise the batch size. …
… However, after printing my fair share of chainmail armor, articulating dragons in rainbow filament, and little business card holders, I've concluded that functional prints give me the greatest joy. Items that solve a problem I acknowledge, no matter how trivial, with the simplest of engineering. …
… Related I built a local LLM server I can access from anywhere, and it uses a Raspberry Pi It may not replace ChatGPT, but it's good enough for edge projects Although the training data matters quite a bit, the parameter size is another key factor that determines an LLM’s computational firepower. …