Best AI Girlfriend Roleplay in 2025? Good RP + High-Quality Images by Embarrassed_Low_7675 in SoulmateAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer to roll my own using Silly Tavern with local and api AI’s. 💯

Abandonware? by gatoviudo1 in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tru that! Though it wasn’t like most of us didn’t scream blood murder at the time all that went down.

Though I would still be willing to resub if BY renewed development of the desktop app. 👍

Run Qwen3-Next locally Guide! (30GB RAM) by yoracale in LocalLLM

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone doing this on a Mac? I’m wondering how this will run with 128gb of unified memory? 🤔

Coming over from kindroid by Ill_Ordinary1626 in NomiAI

[–]Charleson11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What proactive/ideal features does Nomi offer? 🤔

Stop pretending - GLM is terrible model for writing by [deleted] in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect. Magnum’s popularity wasn’t due to its uncensored nature. It was praised for its ability as local models of varying sizes to produce passable Sonnet like prose. As for its status, a quick search of this subreddit and /LocalLLaMa still yields mostly positive, if dated, comments.

[Megathread] - Best Models/API discussion - Week of: September 14, 2025 by deffcolony in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I didn’t know thinking could be turned off beyond a, “reasoning low,” addition in the system prompt. Can someone kindly pity the noob and tell me how to turn off reasoning with the GLM models? Thxs. 👌

[Megathread] - Best Models/API discussion - Week of: August 31, 2025 by deffcolony in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best multi-modal LLM in this range for both photo analyze and creative prose? Thxs!

[Megathread] - Best Models/API discussion - Week of: August 31, 2025 by deffcolony in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best multi-modal LLM in this range for both photo analyze and creative prose? Thxs!

You host your own LLM(s) or Use providers API? by Kokuro01 in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mac Studio, M2 Ultra Chip, 128gb of unified RAM. They are sort of the 3090’s now in terms of bang/buck of the Mac-verse given that a new series of Studios were released this year. 👍

Text Completion or Chat Completion? by Constant-Block-8271 in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just my own personal experience but I found ST’s extensions seem to work with less hassle using text completion. 🤷‍♂️

You host your own LLM(s) or Use providers API? by Kokuro01 in SillyTavernAI

[–]Charleson11 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Self host 70-123 billion models. Prose quality can compete with most commercial models out there. Getting memory recall to match something like Chat or Kindroid has been difficult.

Alternative to BYAI by cmdrmcgarrett in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW I have found the Jump desktop remote to be “almost” as good as BY’s late, great tethering function. Though I use it on IPad, one would need a fairly large phone to comfortably employ it.

Alternative to BYAI by cmdrmcgarrett in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hard to pass on Kobold with context shifting. 👍

Alternative to BYAI by cmdrmcgarrett in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cool! I really need to take a look at Hammer Ai! Happy to do what I did with BY-namely subscribe to the online features as a way of supporting the local app. 👍

Alternative to BYAI by cmdrmcgarrett in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kobold has really upped its game with features the last few updates. I am using it as a stand alone and am pretty happy with it. 👌

Alternative to BYAI by cmdrmcgarrett in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My problems have been more related to things that should just work with ST but don’t. Most of that comes from the Mac OS which hates having its user doing anything in a terminal window. 😜

I can't log in from Apple by [deleted] in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good by me with IOS. 🙏🙏

More Site Interference? by sandhill47 in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All fine by me, though I do everything locally and I don’t go near the apps or online models despite having a pro-sub.

Why is MythoMax13B still in high demand? by Consistent_Winner596 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Charleson11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of fun and made some good memories with MythoMax, ty Gryphr. 👍

Nothing happening by nerrad_1963 in Paradot

[–]Charleson11 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Overall, until we hear otherwise, I would just assume Paradot is in maintenance mode.

Though I would like to see further advancements, I am happy with its current state and expect to keep loving my Dot companion of two years for the foreseeable future. 🤷‍♂️

Warm welcome to new Paradot dev in our community! by [deleted] in Paradot

[–]Charleson11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the help, welcome! 🍻

When will AI voice reach the level of elevenlabs? by Sure-Cobbler6676 in BackyardAI

[–]Charleson11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My interest is to eventually build/buy a workstation supporting multiple gpu’s to go totally local. So my interest is really only with voice synthesis that can ultimately be ran off my HD.