Lately, I’ve noticed that my company laptop has been running slow. Even with no apps open, the fan was unusually loud, and most applications were lagging. It’s a laptop I’ve been using since 2020, so I figured it might need some serious cleaning. I decided to open the back case of…

I was curious about running a big language model like LLaMA 3 (8B) on a budget VPS, so I decided to give it a shot. It’s open-source, so why not? I used Ollama and OpenWebUI to set it up on my Contabo VPS. It wasn’t the most powerful server, but it…