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2 posts tagged with "local inference"

Posts about running models locally on personal hardware instead of hosted APIs

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Running Local LLMs on a Strix Halo Laptop

· 13 min read
Bogdan Varlamov
Bogdan Varlamov
Technologist
Running Local LLMs on a Strix Halo Laptop

An AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 laptop with its integrated Radeon 8060S GPU and unified memory can run open-weight models from 4B parameters up to a 120B mixture-of-experts model, no cloud GPU needed. gpt-oss-120b generates around 35-40 tokens per second, and the 20B and 4B models are faster still. That's enough for the soviet.recipes project: this hardware can host a model large enough to attempt vision-language OCR locally.

Two Damaged HP ZBooks in a Row

· 3 min read
Bogdan Varlamov
Bogdan Varlamov
Technologist
Two Damaged HP ZBooks in a Row

Two HP ZBook units arrived damaged from shipping in a row: the first had a cracked screen, and its replacement had a screw missing from the cover. Two for two isn't the batting average anyone wants from a laptop. I ordered the ZBook with 128GB of RAM to run local AI inference experiments, and to replace an old laptop that was dying.