…Local models are no longer just experimental companions for hobbyists. They are becoming strong enough for serious agentic workflows. In agentic terminal benchmarks, compact open models are now competitive with leading cloud…
…The ideal configuration for any given workload (such as hardware, parallelism, and prefill/decode split) resides in a massive, multi-dimensional search space that is impossible to explore manually or through exhaustive…
…I am a mechanical keyboard hobbyist in my downtime, investing effort in the tools that make my work enjoyable, so the board is fully programmable and it runs custom VIAL firmware . I…
…Principally, there’s hardware-accelerated transcoding, which lets your server leverage CPU or GPU media engines (such as Intel Quick Sync or Nvidia GPUs) to convert massive 4K files on the fly…
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…The hardware to run anything in the 27B-and-up range costs a fair bit, and both VRAM and system RAM are constant constraints made even harder to reconcile given the increasing…
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…In 2025, we added hardware-backed signals to make it even harder for bad actors to spoof devices and introduced new in-app prompts that let users fix common issues like network…
…than a hobbyist one is great. The chip orchestrates the entire loop, the LLM can be anywhere, the skills hold the device-control logic, and the Lua modules control hardware. When you…