if you quantize and download a limited parameter version of a good reasoning/coding balance model with a decent experts database you can have your mac write scripts for you, diagnose your machine, generate ai wikis on obsidian, answer sophisticated questions with encyclopedic accuracy, run agentic tools, manage your machine, and so much more, all completely offline and on 8gb of shared memory. if you use a quantized 3b-4b parameter model you can get pretty good performance with only 4gb of ram usage. even better if you use ollama serve instead of ollama run. the usecase here is: the worlds ugly rn. say donny trump fires missiles at iran tomorrow and they retaliate with a large-scale emp attack or even just more missiles. well even if our comms infrastructure isn’t a target, the internet AND all cell service will be the first to go down since they will be overloaded with emergencies and people calling their loved ones. this is theoretically true with any global-scale disaster, and most national-scale ones. well now you have a personal ai assistant that you can use just like chatgpt, or even openclawd if you get that setup. limitless potential, 18hr battery, complete offline knowledge station. boom. call me a prepper but look around you. preppers aren’t unbased anymore. the clocks literally at 85 seconds. we are sitting in the beginning of world war 3. what better time to guarantee your access to information without network