I've been really getting into local LLMs lately, to the point where I've even tried running them on my phone. My AI subscriptions are only going to get more expensive over time, and if they don't raise prices, they'll probably just nerf the token limits instead.
So I figured it was time to actually commit to local inference and build a setup that works, rather than waiting until I'm forced to, and I think I've got my laptop setup in place now.
I tried running a chatbot on my old computer hardware and it actually worked
You don't need to fork out for expensive hardware to run an AI on your PC.
LM Studio runs my models faster than Ollama
Faster is better, duh
I already have Ollama set up and working, and I'm keeping it that way. When I need a local model connected to something external, like Claude Code, Ollama is what I use. It just integrates better with other tools and…