… Once I ran the command llama-cli -hf bartowski/Qwen3.5-0.8B:Q4 K M -p "Tell me about XDA Developers" -n 128 , the LLM provider pulled the model, loaded it on the Raspberry Pi, and began processing the prompt. …
… Sign in to your XDA account We, at XDA, absolutely love local LLMs . …
… It's not been six months since orchestrators for Claude and other LLMs started taking over GitHub, but that's a long time in frontier model time, and the LLMs have gotten exponentially better since. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Like many, my first dive into using local LLMs was with LM Studio . …
… If you’ve read my articles at XDA, you’re probably aware that I use LLMs with certain LXCs and Docker containers. …
… Fair enough, LLMs are somewhat digital representations of toddlers, and this is expected behavior for that age. …
… But I do want to briefly explain how local LLMs actually work, because it makes everything else in this piece make a lot more sense. …
… That's no digital pausing before it gives me a direct answer, which reduces the anthropomorphic nature cloud LLMs have taken on. …
… So when developers set up self-hosted LLMs , they often try to recreate the same thing: a chat box, a prompt field, and conversational replies. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Despite my general distaste for shoehorned AI features that nobody wants, I must admit that large language models have boosted my productivity quite a bit. And I don’t just mean cloud-based LLMs, either. …