Thanks Tommy, I'll take a look. On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM Tommy Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ahh, okay. If you're just using it for messing around and training, you > could try a Google Coral dongle on Raspberry Pi. > I have no idea how good it is, and I doubt it will power any ollama model > worth running for general text over 1B parmeters, but if you've got a small > use case and want to test training on like a 1B model or something, it > could fit your use-case > https://developers.google.com/coral > > You're right though, runpod time is pretty cheap to experiment with, and > you just buy time. It's not a subscription. > > Good luck, and I hope that helps! > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree, they don't mix, but if you don't ask you don't find a nugget in >> the wild. >> >> I'm planning on running it headless (after setup), but plans are made to >> be changed. To start I might buy some tokens from a vendor, but hoping to >> run at least small things locally. I know even a Raspberry Pi can run >> OpenClaw, but no real 'performance'. This is just for personal training >> for me (retiree that does it for entertainment and to keep my mind busy). >> >> I know I should just do a cloud based version, but I have an inherent >> dislike of subscription based services (not that I don't have several, yes, >> i'm an oxymoron personified <<grin>> ). >> >> Thanks for the feedback. ... Jack >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM Tommy Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yeah I agree. Expect to spend at least 2k for what you described if you >>> want to run a 34b or the 120b chatgpt MoE model. The video card to run that >>> alone is around that price, before the machine you put it in. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 8:26 AM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Cheep/free and AI workloads do not mix. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't have a Linux machine anymore. 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