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Up front: I'm one of the people building the page-perception layer used here. We started by testing small local models. The result turned out to be more interesting than the original test. 12 small mo
A follow-up to my earlier post about small models on phones. Last time it was fixed tasks in a single browser. This is something else. Ministral 3 3B Q4_K_M in llama.cpp on a Samsung Galaxy S21, four
According to this article Samsung has locked up the 70% of it's future ram production in contracts to companies like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. Everyone knows this is driving the ram price increas
Disclosure: This unit was provided free of charge by Orange Pi for testing. No editorial review, no preconditions, no script. All data, bottlenecks, and thermal behavior are reported directly from har
A few people here mentioned interest in a way to test their custom Pi setups, so I figured I’d drop this here: RoastMyHarness The basic idea is a small engine that sets up an environment to run DeepSW
I finished my home inference server. First I tried Lenovo p620 workstation and while it’s a good value overall it pissed me off with a ton of proprietary Lenovo shit to deal with and I return it in th
Yesterday TechCrunch published a piece about a growing problem for AI agents: websites are starting to block them. Amazon blocking Meta's Muse is the obvious example. At almost exactly the same time,
I was waiting on the blowers for the T4s and posted this before it was finished, other than some braided cable sleeves for the fan wires its pretty much good, I was going to upgrade the CPU, but I'm g
RTX 5090 random black screen + 100% fans + hard lock; sometimes no POST until AC power is removed — gaming, ComfyUI and Ollama I am looking for help diagnosing a very intermittent but increasingly fre
I've been tinkering with local LLMs since the beginning of the year when I had an Intel Arc B580 and 32 GB of DDR5. Curiosity got the best of me and I bought the first R9700 about half a year ago, als
(not written by Claude, all errors and crappy text are result of too little coffee on a Sunday morning ;) Our home server is a 2018 Thinkstation P520, bought for about 600eur in 2023. It's been upgrad
I’ve been experimenting with a custom inference/runtime research project called CRANE V2, mostly because I wanted to answer a stupid question: How far can you push absurdly large MoE models on an ordi
pagedMark removes AI provenance from content you generated yourself. Two different things, and it is worth separating them. The first is metadata: C2PA Content Credentials, EXIF, XMP, IPTC, the genera
Hey LocalLlaMa, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots a
I’m building the ultimate AI tool vault, but every great collection has a few missing pieces. Note: I will react to every comment AI's currently installed: Qwen3.5-0.8B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf(classification)
This r/MachineLearning discussion centers on Google's TurboQuant, a training-free KV cache compression algorithm released in March 2026 that compresses cache storage from 16 bits down to 3 bits with m