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submitted 2 months ago by chagall@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I don't consider myself very technical. I've never taken a computer science course and don't know python. I've learned some things like Linux, the command line, docker and networking/pfSense because I value my privacy. My point is that anyone can do this, even if you aren't technical.

I tried both LM Studio and Ollama. I prefer Ollama. Then you download models and use them to have your own private, personal GPT. I access it both on my local machine through the command line but I also installed Open WebUI in a docker container so I can access it on any device on my local network (I don't expose services to the internet).

Having a private ai/gpt is pretty cool. You can download and test new models. And it is private. Yes, there are ethical concerns about how the model got the training. I'm not minimizing those concerns. But if you want your own AI/GPT assistant, give it a try. I set it up in a couple of hours, and as I said... I'm not even that technical.

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[-] chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Very cool! You can use something like Tailscale to access your local services remotely without exposing them to the internet.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

With all respect, the first paragraph seems self contradictory.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Very technical vs not can be very subjective.
It can be a 50 year old sysadmin vs Adam I pulled from the street or a graybeard linux admin vs a beginner sysadmin only in it for thr career instead of the passion (those can be very non-technical but good problem solver folks)

I know my comparison is flawed

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I switched from OpenWebUI to Alpaca as I had no use for multi accounts.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PSU Power Supply Unit
VPN Virtual Private Network

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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