Running Out of Room for Models — I Checked SSD Prices and Found Something I Should Have Looked at First
6 August 2026. My free disk space had dropped ...
How Do You Actually Choose a Local LLM Model? Five Axes I Found by Running a Dozen of Them — Tuning Series, Part 1
The first thing that stumped me when I starte ...
How Long Until the First Output Appears? — I Measured the Initial Wait Time of a Local LLM
I wrote about measuring the "wait time" of lo ...
Can My Local AI Be Reached from the Outside? — I Checked Whether the PC Running Ollama Is Safe
Once you have local LLMs running on your own ...
Four Mini PCs Combine Into One? Lenovo’s ThinkCentre X Ultra Doesn’t Say How
I run local LLMs on a mini PC with 128GB of u ...
A Third 128GB Mini PC? NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Leaves Out the One Number That Decides Local LLM Speed
I run local LLMs on a mini PC with 128GB of u ...
Have E-Paper Phones Become Practical Enough to Use? A Look at the Hisense A10 Ultra and the Current BOOX and Bigme Lineup
Since I started relying on generative AI, my ...
Apple Says 4.3x AI Performance. Which Half of a Local LLM Does That Touch?
Last time I lined the Mac Studio up against o ...
Video Generation Times That Would Not Settle on a Single RTX 3090
I have been running ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 in ...
ComfyUI Said the Render Took 5 Seconds — Two Reasons the Number Was Not Real
2 September 2026 I set out to measure how lon ...