Basically the local models don’t (and can’t) contain the full knowledge of the universe.

BUT they can call tools pretty well and if you give the harness the capability to search Wikipedia for example, it becomes a lot smarter

Qwen3.5 and Gemma4 are the best ones for tool calling that don’t need massive amounts of memory

Nothing you can run with affordable hardware. The SOTA stuff requires hundreds of gigabytes of memory - and not RAM, GPU memory.

But you can try with stuff like gpt-oss or qwen coder

His star was just rising and the way he died was so fucking stupid and preventable.

No drugs or partying, just a piece of shit American car…

So let’s say a Swiss bank has a literal ton of Nazi gold from 1940s. They would automatically inform other nations of that pile?

I do run Jellyfin too, it’s pretty handy at getting metadata for stuff locally so I have something outside of Plex’s internal databases.

And IIRC I have used Jellyfin in the past to watch some more esoteric stuff that Plex (and its official clients) couldn’t play.

But there’s no way in hell I’m opening it to the outside world.

I paid 79€ or something for Plex Lifetime well over a decade ago and it’s by far the best bang for buck I’ve ever got.

It’s also dead simple to share it with friends and acquaintances safely. I know how to manage VPN tunnels and all that shit. I’m not setting that up for my aunt who lives 4 hours away. We did manage to get Plex running on her TV over the phone though.