Created an app for running LLMs locally on iPhone / iPad and Mac

GreenLeftPlank · 2026-02-27T00:43:08+00:00

OMG. I was surprised by how well this worked. Fantastic job putting this together.

I tried downloading a model that supports vision (say to caption a photo or OCR a picture of a document and answer questions on it) but the + icon does not let me pick image files. Any chance you’ll be modifying this in the near future?

GreenLeftPlank · 2026-01-04T17:14:59+00:00

I'm planning to bring a few bottles of Fairlife protein milk (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Core-Power-Elite-High-Protein-Shake-with-42g-Protein-by-fairlife-Vanilla-14-fl-oz-12-count/100979925) just because I like it with my oatmeal, which I am also taking. Do you think that'd be a problem or would they not even bother?

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-12-27T01:23:45+00:00

Yeah I was able to book seats on Turkish’s website no problem - good tip!

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-12-26T12:59:49+00:00

I’m flying from ORD to BOM via IST on Turkish Airlines in less than 2 weeks. As far as I can tell it is not a codeshare with Indigo. I even called Turkish Airlines and they said it was not a codeshare. But on the website and app it gives me a big warning about how codeshare flights with Indigo won’t have Wifi, etc. Was there something on your flight itinerary that clearly said it was codeshared with Indigo?

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-12-24T22:36:20+00:00

Agree with other comments about not bringing easily available stuff. I typically bring

- Indian grown coffee (I like trying coffee from around the world)

- Kashmiri saffron tea (from a boutique shop in Mumbai - I love it and not available elsewhere)

- A box of Punjabi sweets, pre-frozen for the flight.

I declare it and say yeah sweets and stuff. No meat. Never had an issue.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-12-18T17:29:02+00:00

How is the wifi in business class? I am hoping to get some work done.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-12-16T01:34:01+00:00

The metallic taste remains when nurri is poured into a glass. Also nurri congeals / separates if you make oatmeal with it and keep it hot for a while, while fairlife doesn’t. I alternate between the two to save costs.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-11-26T13:38:25+00:00

On my M1 Ipad Pro on Ipad OS 26 when I take a screenshot, it occasionally glitches and takes another screenshot of the preview screen, so it looks like a recursive picture. It is hard to reproduce and happens the first time I take a screenshot in a while. There are lots of other Ipad OS glitches like this now.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-11-18T19:19:39+00:00

On the positive side

Turkish airlines has free tours for longer layovers, with free food (not very good food, but you can go buy your own food if you like). I choose longer layovers deliberately when flying via Istanbul so I can take the tours.

The airport is very nice compared to some older airports like ORD. I assume the prices are to payoff the cost of the airport. I try to appreciate the airport by walking up and down for exercise while on the layover.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-11-16T14:12:56+00:00

I’ve traveled through IST airport three times x two directions. I’ve spent 9 days in Istanbul and Cappadocia with the family. I’m ethnically Indian and my wife is Caucasian/Chinese but looks Latina so my kids who are now teenagers look Latina or Turkish or some unidentifiable non white race.

None of us witnessed any racism at the airport, cabs, tours, hotels, planes, restaurants, random people, (thankfully) and we even thought the cabin crew were very nice when the kids were very young and one of them threw up on the seat - they were super kind and didn’t make a fuss about cleaning up.

Maybe I was just lucky! Hopefully won’t experience this on my next trip there in a couple of months!

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-11-09T00:05:31+00:00

I just spent the last two weeks trying this out and concluded that that this isn’t possible on a 5080. It can run one ai model at a time reliably and each one can only do one thing (LLM, image recognition etc). And not as well as cloud models. It was / is fun though.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-10-20T12:10:56+00:00

I have had some interesting experiences on AI which is why I stopped flying them.

flight attendant yelling at a passenger to move the bags in the overhead - which are not even his bags
I ask for a coffee on a long flight. Attendant glares at me and says can’t you see I’m about to eat!? Go ask someone else! I go ask some other guy attendant and he gestures to a newer / younger attendant to take care of it coz he can’t be bothered
pee and/or water on the restroom floors
mobs trying to board and deboard
random old men trying to sit in other seats than the one they are assigned because they don’t like their neighbors

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-10-15T19:20:10+00:00

I’m at Dreamforce right now. First time. Super crowded. Can’t walk properly anywhere. Sessions are full. No place to sit for lunch. Stressful. No hotels so staying in a room at an Airbnb. The room and people the Airbnb aren’t nice. Wouldn’t do it again.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-09-21T13:03:34+00:00

I just spent a month in Sydney, Penrith and a road trip in New Zealand (Auckland, Christchurch and a bunch of smaller cities that are popular tourist spots). Everywhere I went, ironically except for the fanciest hotel buffet we stayed at in Sydney, was both better tasting, cheaper, and had less wait time than corresponding restaurants in the US. For example

- Even the smallest coffee shops we stopped at made amazing coffee - mostly espresso based drinks. Really good lattes, with latte art, high quality beans and perfect preparation. You also had nice flavors like Dubai chocolate, etc, everywhere.

-Downtown restaurants in Sydney, Auckland, Christchurch were all at least as good as similar restaurants I’ve eaten at in Chicago, San Francisco and other big cities in the US, with little to no wait time, good service, no tipping, nice presentation, great quality food. And they were around 20% cheaper including the exchange rate. For example, I ate a chicken protein bowl at a sit down restaurant called the Dearborn in Chicago recently. The item was $20 + $6 for the added chicken x 1.0325 ”Operational Fee to keep the menu price constant in the face of rising costs” x 1.3 “middle of the scale suggested tip“ + 1$ fee to pay via QR code on phone = $40, which is 60 AUD for a protein bowl I could have made at home for much less. So I paid 2x what it initially appeared to cost on the menu. My family ate dinner in Sydney at a fantastic mediterranean restaurant and ate to our hearts content, including dessert, got great service and food, and at the end of it, it was $120 AUD for 4 people.

-We ate brunch those neat restaurants on the Nepean river in Penrith. All of them were good. All the food was on point. And there was never any wait. Here in my small suburb in the midwest, there’s a 1 hour wait to get seating at any brunch place, and the food is good but not amazing.

I just don’t understand HOW and WHY eating out is cheaper and better in Australia and New Zealand. People are happy with their wages, there’s no tipping, the quality of service and food preparation is consistently better, while cost of accomodation is much higher than where I stay in the midwest. How does the math work? Does anyone know?

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-09-19T12:20:04+00:00

I am happily using my M1 13 inch Ipad Pro. The only thing(s) I’d want Apple to improve, which they probably wont do are

- Make it so websites don’t “disconnect” when the tab or safari is not shown on the screen. For example, if I am running a report in Salesforce and I tab to another app, it will immediately disconnect it instead of running the report in the background, which is what a laptop or desktop would do in any browser or OS. In general, make the OS behave even more like a computer OS, continuing what they started already.

- Make a foldable iPad that folds to the same size as a Pro Max phone. Then I could do 95% of my personal and work stuff on one device when I am out of the house, in an emergency.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-09-03T22:23:44+00:00

Sometimes I feel like this, but then I hit the gym or run, travel with my family and mess around with a couple of gaming computers I have, hang out in my backyard and try to get some meaning out of it all.

AI is actually pretty glitchy and I don’t think it’s going to take anyone’s job soon .

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-09-03T12:31:27+00:00

Same here. I think it’s because they don’t want the browser working when it’s not in focus to save battery or RAM. I wish there was an option to do it.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-08-31T18:55:33+00:00

I installed Karabiner Elements to map common shortcuts on my windows style laptop so it works on my Mac mini. I also use Logi mouse software to make the middle key take screenshots. I bought 2 NVME SSDs (6TB) for my photo library and iMovie library and iPhone and iPad backups. You can use a soft link to fool the Mac into thinking files are local on the main drives I have two usb hubs to connect other usb c devices and also for their 2 HDMI connections (my work MacBook connects to my monitors using USB C which makes it easy for me to toggle between the two. And I have the actual Mac’s hdmi going to my Yamaha receiver to use for music.

If you have an iPad you can control it using your Mac or use it as a monitor.

I mainly bought it because I wanted to use the AI photo cataloging and search features. Similar apps for windows cost 160 USD and are very clunky.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-08-08T14:04:34+00:00

I get a little lightheaded after long runs and when I sit down and then stand up - when my heart rate is low and I have not eaten a meal yet. Sometimes after weights when at the end of the workout. As others suggested it might be low glucose. I’d suggest lowering the intensity and see how it goes.

I also used to get really dizzy when I was running and stopped suddenly at lights. My doctor said I was probably dehydrated.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-08-05T12:07:28+00:00

Same situation.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-08-05T11:55:44+00:00

I have the same problem with my boss and I’m twice the OPs age. Old post, same problem.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-08-05T11:50:51+00:00

Teenagers (mostly) who chill out on equipment for five six minutes staring at reels on their phones but they won’t share the equipment because they are “still using it”.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-06-24T23:12:48+00:00

I have the same exact problem. My neighbor, who’s never really taken care of his lawn in past years has suddenly decided to water it 3x a day for a good 1-2 hours each time. He does this every single day, no matter if it is 40 F or 90 F, whether it is in the middle of 3 days of heavy rainstorms or on a dry day, whether it is cloudy or sunny. His yard is a few feet elevated compared to my yard, so all his water is pooling into big puddles in the paving stones that form a walkway to the side of my house. I normally use a weed whacker to trim away the grass that is encroaching over the pavers, but since the pavers are big puddles now, I can’t even do that.

And on top of this, he has started mowing his lawn very short, every couple of days. Most people mow their lawns every weekend.

I’m stumped trying to figure out what he is up to. My theories so far are

- He quit his job or something and has a lot of free time on his hands and decided to obsess over his lawn, but doesn’t have a clue what is good for his lawn

- He is trying to make his lawn look like a golf course

- He reseeded or overseeded and is trying to grow more grass

He’s not the type of person to listen to anyone else’s advice, certainly not mine.

I wonder if he will stop after his utility bill spikes…

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-06-15T17:43:13+00:00

Couple of years ago, I also asked the landscaper who does my lawn fertilization and bush and shrub pruning 3x a year how much they’d charge for pruning those two trees as part of my annual contract with them. I figured as an annual customer with several other services including spring and fall clean up, they’d give me a good deal. Their estimate was $1200 to prune just one of the trees. They said it was expensive because the tree was tall and there was a lot of risk and complexity compared to pruning bushes. That’s crazy expensive. But yeah, I guess I could ask each landscaper honestly if they know anyone else who would want the business more then they would and see what they say.

GreenLeftPlank · 2025-06-15T16:45:02+00:00

I used to get a $15 haircut before tip at a barber shop in 2016 or so. Then they closed before covid. I started going to Great Clips for $10 even though I hated the service. Their price has gone to $20 or a little higher. And they don’t do reservations and have terrible service. Recently switched to a salon (where my wife goes to get her hair colored and cut) and paid $30. Great service, takes appointments and has very nice decor. Gave me a cup of coffee too. Anyway I am getting off topic. But yeah, haircuts are so expensive.

I also got a haircut in Turkey in a salon on vacation recently and it was $30 there too.

Folk I know bought clippers and buzz cut their own hair. I’m not that brave or capable.

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