Yeah. But they’re slow because most of us are GPU peasants. If someone were willing to drop $3-5K on a rig, they could probably run decent, dense models at greater than cloud speeds. Hell, with enough black magic, they could do it with less, but they’d have to go deep into the weeds.
OTOH, $3-5K buys you a shit ton on Open Router, Claude, Chat, Lumo etc.
The game is entirely rigged for “you will own nothing and be happy about it”.
I guess it depends on your definition of perfect - cheap, good or fast.
This thing is probably going to cost at least $20K USD.
Edit:
“Next year’s base M7 processor is expected to arrive in the first half of 2027 and will also upgrade memory bandwidth to about 240 GB/s.”
That’s…really fucking slow. What’s the goal here - CGI, engineering sims, game dev etc? 1.5TB is cool but at 240GB/s that will crawl for AI use.
Comparison: this is about $100K, for 7.2TB/s, 252GB VRAM (+500GB system ram, so closer to 750GB total)
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-station/
Honestly, I think that’s the only llm of its kind. The next closest thing is this
https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
If you don’t mind something narrower (an expert system, sort of), I’m slowly coding something for myself here. It’s not ready yet (about half way done to initial release).
https://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/picoGURU
Public facing docs are a bit of a mess at the moment (sorry; writing docs is boring AF; will probably be the last thing I tidy before official 1.0.0) and it’s not really runnable right now, but when done, the “source files” for this will be kiwix (off line Wikipedia), your own markdown notes and 30 or so trusted domains (user defined).
So it’s all either your own content or public domain aka open source fully. Code itself is AGPL-3.
Anyway, that’s the goal.
So far, we have exactly one of those
It also says -
“So it’s all vibe-coded slop.”
The idea is over 4 years old: a trustless, decentralized network with no central entity that can censor who you connect with. I sketched it for years. What an LLM changed was the speed: the prototype came together in a day. The trigger was the release of iroh v1.
Make of that what you will.
Well sure, if you’re installing CFW or aosp and you don’t need the ever increasing cruft that seems to rely on Play store authentication. Never install GApps, done.
Some folks (not you or I) need to access play store to install their apps (I think even WhatsApp and Signal need it now; I couldn’t install it on my phone), 2FA, transport apps, bank apps etc.
Catch 22 for them.
How will your phone stream movies to the TV, little billy’s tablet and Grandma’s laptop, while letting Suzie listen to her favourite music and Davey read his CBR comics?
What does your phone draw, BTW, when watching media or casting it? Is it less than 0.8 of a watt?
Can your phone fit in a matchbox?
Ya dig? :)
Like herpes, it comes back :) The second you connect to WiFi or mobile data…
If you want to avoid it - for good - you need to install CFW. Or you need to play whackamole with firewalls. But those come with other issues.
Big evil knows what they’re doing - switching it off and on again won’t fool em for long (if at all) :(
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Yes, lots. Here - try the dumb phone finder tool here; it’s region specific
I think the goal is to push it silently as a Google system service, rather than wait for manufacturers to ship an OS or app store update.
There’s a real possibility your phone already has Android Developer Verifier installed and sitting dormant until enforcement begins.
You can check for the package now:
“com.google.android.verifier”
If it’s there…well…
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Nah…we need digital divergence.
Dumbphone + tethering.
Let the phone manufacturers and carriers handle the “phone” part-with all the messy IMEI whitelisting, compliance and VoLTE shit.
The good stuff can live on a small Linux tablet.
No need to wait for the perfect Linux phone OS, working diallers, carrier support and all the rest of it.
The solution is already here. We just need to stop insisting that it all has to be one device.
LADB is a native android feature. Unless they plan to kill adb entirely, what’s to stop me from doing this -
Because if that works, “install from Fdroid” needs just a small tweak so that the Fdroid app submits the APK through ADB.
Not that I particularly trust Google, but they have promised to not molest the ADB pathway.
"Are ADB installs impacted by the 24-hour waiting period for advanced flow? No, there are no changes to how ADB works. You will be able to install applications using ADB as usual. The waiting period does not apply to ADB installs. Last updated: March 23, 2026’
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq
You’re welcome :)
I’m looking to see just how far this femto-server idea can go. Scoping it out now.
Fuck yes we’re interested. Go :)
Try this
Yes. People occasionally talk about pooling resources / creating a co-op to buy something like this. Easier to split $200K purchase (and probably $10k/month electricity costs) if 200-2000 people chip in. But then…that’s just the cloud with extra steps.
Can’t says I’ve ever seen a co-op like that work but ICBW