Local AI is Hitting the Sweet Spot Local LLMs are finally starting to feel effective as a daily driver. Six months ago my engagement with language models was split 10% local, 90% cloud for chat & coding, and that local use was mostly a quick check of “are we there yet.” Now, with Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4, I’m spending more than half of my chat-time in a local web UI....
Which mobile ecosystem are you a part of, Google or Apple? I’ve been a member of the Google ecosystem for over a decade now, but recently I’ve dramatically reduced my reliance on their closed-source cloud software services. The ongoing battle over ever-increasing subscription fees, the lack of immediate control over my cloud-hosted data, and generally my disinterest in supporting the monopolization of technology have all motivated me to employ a variety of community-developed free and open-source software equivalents to the services Google offers at home....
This weekend we took a trip out to Northeast Oregon along the Snake River. Our specific destination of choice was Hell’s Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America! Friday night we camped at Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area just past Pendleton on I-84. The view of the forest made up for the road noise. Dinner was camp-stove pizza! It was a fun experiment, but our technique needs work to say the least....
This is an article that I wrote to talk about something I love with anybody who wants to read it. Coffee Can Taste Great, No Really it Can! I drink coffee every day, and I’ve been doing so for fifteen years. I’ll probably drink it for the rest of my life. As one of my two drinks of passion, craft beer being the other, I’m drawn to its taste more than anything....
Downgrading from Google Workspace to Google while maintaining your account purchases (2024) Tl;dr: I successfully severed my subscription ties with Google by: creating a new free Google account, and requesting that the Google Play Store support team transfer my play store purchases from my old Workspace Account to the new account (with success) Introduction: In early 2017 I began my paid subscription journey with Google as a G Suite Basic user....