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Running local LLMs on macOS - the easy way

If your Mac has enough unified memory to run some decent models – why not do so? How, you ask? Well, there is a very easy way (more…)

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Using local AI as an OCR

I have a collection of CDs, and I wanted to make an index of those CDs with regards to where they are on my shelves. I’ve photographed them and needed an OCR to feed the photos to – to extract the titles Since AI is all the rage now, I was looking for a multimodal LLM that could do that – and so far stopped at qwen2.5vl, which I could run on my 64GB unified memory M4 MacBook The process is…

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Telegram-desktop in Docker (Podman) on macOS ARM/M CPUs

I do not trust Telegram to have access to my local file system. So first and foremost, if you install Telegram client on macOS – install it via Mac App Store. This should provide some isolation. But I want to be certain. Thus I found a way to run Telegram in docker. I use Podman instead of Docker desktop, but that doesn’t matter much. What matters is that we can run Telegram client (AKA…

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Use GPhoto2Server camera preview in OBS

One can use GPhoto2Server to capture video feed from digital cameras as an input in OBS In order to do so, run GPhoto2Server, and in OBS studio add “Media Source” with this configuration: Disable “local file” checkbox Set “Input” to be http://localhost:8080/stream.mjpeg Optionally set Network Buffering to 0 and reconnect delay to 1S Continue reading Use GPhoto2Server camera preview in OBS

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