As an empiricist I cringe at any statement given with 100% certainty.

If you want to start playing around immediately, try Alpaca if Linux, LMStudio if Windows. See if it works for you, then move from there.

Alpaca actually runs its own Ollama instance.

I can actually use locally some smaller models on my 2017 laptop (though I have increased the RAM to 16 GB).

You’d be surprised how mich can be done with how little.

As far as I understand, border officers can kinda send you back because they don’t like your vibes.

You can totally do it with the GPL as well, as long as you own 100% od the copyright. Of you accept a patch, and don’t get copyright attribution… You’re stuck with the GPL forever.

I love how your first example was AUR.

I use arch BTW.

There is surely a tradeoff at some point…

But noone says you can’t lose both!