Lately I’ve been juggling a few practical challenges while experimenting with offline AI models, and it’s been more insightful than I expected. 1. System-level friction I ran into issues with symlinks breaking unexpectedly and model transfers bet...

1. Why I tried this. 2. My setup. 3. The problems I faced. 4. The tweaks I discovered. 5. Results. 6. Lessons. THE WHY: I’ve always wanted to explore deep conversations with AI and understand how these systems work. For a long time, that dre...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...