I’m downloading pre-trained models. I had a bunch of dependency issues getting text-generation-webui to work and honestly I probably installed some useless crap in the process, but I did get it to work. LM Studio is much simpler, but less customization(or I just don’t know how to use it all in lm studio). But yea, I’m just downloading pre-trained models and running them in these UI’s (right now I just loaded up ‘deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b’ in LM Studio). I also have the nvidia app installed and I make sure my gpu drivers are always up to date.

in order to prevent phishing, right? (cue anakin/padme meme)

you might want to look into RAG and ‘long-term memory’ concepts. I’ve been playing around with creating a self-hosted LLM that has long-term memory (using pre-trained models), which is essentially the same thing as you’re describing. Also - GPU matters. I’m using an RTX 4070 and it’s noticeably slower than something like in-browser chatgpt, but I know 4070 is kinda pricey so many home users might have earlier/slower gpu’s.

There was a court case called the ‘Citizens United v FEC’ that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can ‘donate’ as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery.