Local & private AI for apple-silicon
Apple Silicon Macs share one pool of unified memory between CPU and GPU, which lets them run surprisingly large local models quietly and at low power.
Rebel BitesA private ChatGPT for a family of four on a Mac mini
One always-on M4 Mac mini serves Open WebUI to every phone and laptop in the house. Kids get a tutor preset, and three AI subscriptions are gone.
Connecting a private Obsidian vault to Ollama on macOS
Meeting notes stay off public AI services. llama3.1 and nomic-embed-text in Ollama, wired up through the Local GPT and AI Providers plugins.
Mac Studio as an always-on, LLM-driven smart-home brain
Phrases like 'it's stuffy in here' become real device calls, run by Ollama with qwen3:14b on a Mac Studio. €15 ESP32 satellites keep all audio on the LAN.