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Detect your hardware and find out which AI models you can run locally. GPU, CPU, and RAM analysis in your browser.
I have tried a couple of apps that run AI models locally. I have the last 16" Intel MacBook Pro model, 16 GB ram. It is S-L-O-W and limited. You'll want Apple silicon if you want to try this on a Mac.
Jeff Geerling has some videos on locally hosting AI models, but as always, YMMV. Don't expect Claude with such systems.
did you hear about the AI model that entered the beauty pageant?
She won miss information.
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You can use Docker to run it, and it’s pretty simple.
The real question is why you'd want to do so.
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Because it’s easy.
I’m curious about it, but none of my machines have anywhere near the horsepower lol
“Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like all Hell” - Peter Brock
I'm just wondering what the utility would be to have your own little plagiarism machine locally.
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I'm wondering the same. I can drink a gallon of water, fart, and confidently provide a wrong answer all on my own.
Well, for one, I might have a big potential lawsuit coming up, and it spend about 7 minutes creating an extremely long years-long timeline based on all of the documentation on my computer, including timestamped communications, notes, emails, and tons of other legal documentation which I hadn’t thought to include. All wrapped up for the lawyers.
For two, I have a massive library of tools that I’ve written in one language or another for one given platform or another, and it’s really useful to port it over to another platform just by asking it to do so. It’s not so much plagiarism if it’s literally duplicating my own work onto the other platforms(which I test and verify, of course).
For three, it explains in much more specific verbose language that's good for me, instead of in simplistic language that tends to miss details. And again, yes, I verify the information it provides.
For four, I do genealogy research, and you wouldn’t believe how effective it can be in identifying people in others’ family trees who match individuals in your own family tree, allowing you to copy the details from those matching individuals and then copying in all kinds of family members you didn’t know about. I was doing it today, and I found my great-great-great grandma in Czechia, in a language I don’t speak, and her whole extended family including both parents(and marriage records and death records, et cetera), and more and more. I still haven’t seen how far back it goes for that branch, and that's just one. I’ve been using it to identify other branches in other countries as well. And that also led it to find photographs of many of the people who I’d never been able to see in person. And I was able to share with my family today people who it found from 100–200 years ago who looked a ton like living family members. I invited my mom over, and she literally started crying at seeing how cool it was.
There are numerous other useful aspects for "my own little plagiarism machine".
How much of that did you do on your own little plagiarism machine though?
Because once you end up using things like claude or grok or chatgpt, you're beholden to the providers of tokens, which, once they're past the initial VC rush of easy money, will quickly price these technologically-dead homunculi out of usefulness, unless we've become so hopelessly dependent on them that we're willing to sacrifice all of our collective source (regardless of license), all of our collective imagery (again, regardless of license) and our water and power on the altar of turning out a few useful JPGs or (of all the stupid things) a timeline of employment for a lawsuit that will go nowhere.
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LLMs running locally based on your own data could be quite useful; and can't really be considered plagiarism either. I know we have our own internal one at work that is trained exclusively on our own data which is mildly useful.
Jehannum wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:47 pmHow much of that did you do on your own little plagiarism machine though?
Because once you end up using things like claude or grok or chatgpt, you’re beholden to the providers of tokens, which, once they’re past the initial VC rush of easy money, will quickly price these technologically-dead homunculi out of usefulness, unless we’ve become so hopelessly dependent on them that we’re willing to sacrifice all of our collective source (regardless of license), all of our collective imagery (again, regardless of license) and our water and power on the altar of turning out a few useful JPGs or (of all the stupid things) a timeline of employment for a lawsuit that will go nowhere.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
You know, now that you’ve told me that my lawsuit won’t amount to anything, I know it will turn out great!
And I’ve never thanked you for telling me so many years ago that I would never make money with my associate's degree. Over the years, every time I told my coworkers that someone in Albuquerque once told me that, we always got a good laugh.
obvs wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 3:39 amJehannum wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:47 pmHow much of that did you do on your own little plagiarism machine though?
Because once you end up using things like claude or grok or chatgpt, you’re beholden to the providers of tokens, which, once they’re past the initial VC rush of easy money, will quickly price these technologically-dead homunculi out of usefulness, unless we’ve become so hopelessly dependent on them that we’re willing to sacrifice all of our collective source (regardless of license), all of our collective imagery (again, regardless of license) and our water and power on the altar of turning out a few useful JPGs or (of all the stupid things) a timeline of employment for a lawsuit that will go nowhere.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
You know, now that you’ve told me that my lawsuit won’t amount to anything, I know it will turn out great!
And I’ve never thanked you for telling me so many years ago that I would never make money with my associate's degree. Over the years, every time I told my coworkers that someone in Albuquerque once told me that, we always got a good laugh.
I mean, if you're going to ignore the question to attack the messenger, go on with yourself, I guess.
edit: at the time, I got the vibe from you that you were interested in a career path that was somewhat different from computer repairman, so I'm not sure I was incorrect, but was instead working without complete information.
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Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support
Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.
