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literoldolphin··on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Ah, don't worry about those guys. This is very cool! I love the technical write up -- so interesting: )
literoldolphin··on Qwen 3.8 27B
As I mentioned above you can't take the data center into the cafe somewhere. We're talking about running local models here.
literoldolphin··on Qwen 3.8 27B
And yet it's also a laptop you can basically take anywhere unlike a giant video card with 1000 watt power supply requirements.
literoldolphin··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Why is anyone even using video cards these days? You may as well be burning cash.

This is the perfect candidate for just splattering it on your nvme and then reading it off there and into memory. All of these run perfectly fine on simple m4 silicone:

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet

https://github.com/sqliteai/warp

literoldolphin··on Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
OCLP.
literoldolphin··on Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation
Don't date I think is the lesson here.
literoldolphin··on MacBook Neo
Wait did I read that correctly? There's no backlit keyboard? I don't recall any Mac laptop not having a backlight keyboard since the 2011. And they're marketing it to students -- they are always going to be working in the dark on their beds during the exams...

Forget memory - this is like the more major loss in terms feature set.