talat - the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings
talat is the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings: an AI note-taker that captures both sides of every conversation and transcribes in real time, entirely on your own computer. Nothing you say is ever uploaded.

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.
A 10 year old Xeon is all you need - point.free
Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE.

ASUS Ascent GX10
Desktop AI supercomputer delivering up to 1 petaFLOP performance, powered by NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, supporting OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.
Run Ollama with NVIDIA GPU in Proxmox VMs and LXC containers
Learn how to run Ollama with an NVIDIA GPU in Proxmox for an enhanced AI experience in your home lab and great chat performance

Apple JUST Dropped a Game-Changer
pi-ds4 · Audrey Tang
Run a frontier model on your own machine with stable, contestable decision traces. Full install, steering, reproducibility, and tuning guide.

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.


mudler/LocalAI
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers...

I've Been Writing About AI for Two Years. I Was Looking at the Wrong Part of the World.
There is an app in Lagos that can tell you whether your malaria medication is real or counterfeit.

apfel - Your Mac Already Has AI
Your Mac already has AI. Apple ships a language model with macOS -apfel unlocks it with one brew install. No downloads, no API keys, no config. The fastest path to local AI.

Greyhaven — Sovereign AI Systems for Enterprise
Greyhaven builds custom sovereign AI systems: on-premise inference, private data pipelines, and model-agnostic architecture so enterprises maintain full control over their AI.

My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
so that new Mac Studio and M5 Ultra have me thinking about 2030 now the wildcard on the $1200ish 2030 Mac Mini is RAM. who knows what the future holds for RAM but the trajectory is clear: a reasonably priced home computer is going to have absolutely sicko inference power within a few years now…