Warning: First paragraph is a recap of my kernel experience, skip if you don't care.
So in my first post I talked about my journey to start making a custom kernel. TL;DR, it hasn't worked out great. I edited the kernel without knowing much so I used ai and also looked at the help pages in the menuconfig to try and see if I needed something. I ended up making it so the kernel couldnt even boot into efi which was fun to debug. Now I cant use my amd gpu because something is wrong. But that is neither here nor there.
I have been getting tired of AI chatbots like grok, copilot and chatgpt because while they do help a lot, they are restricted by money. You have a limited use before something stops and it sucks. The best alternatives are to figure it out through things like stack overflow or running AI locally. You can probably guess which one I chose.
Ollama is something cool that I have use for like 5 minutes so far but it is awesome. I can do almost everything the online chatbots as with Ollama. Only thing I don't think Ollama can do is use things like images. In hindsight, I also am using the terminal one so there may be a desktop version that can use them. Its really cool, all you have to do is run one command to install it, find and pull a model, then run the model and boom, you can chat to your heart's content. I chose the gemma3:4b because it is supposedly the most stable and easy to use one.
I think Ollama on the terminal will work for now but I think I want to make a web version that is local so I can use images and other things without the need to pay money or get tracked by the AI overlords.
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That's awesome you were looking into making your own custom kernel, kudos!
Not sure if this is what you're going for, but if you want to do image generation locally, you should check out: github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-di... and get models from civitai.com/
Good luck on your AI journey!
I will have to look into hose image generation models. Thankyou for the links.
I was building website app with cods, I just asked to review and if any error can fix, it updated and and told me to save. I saved updated code on server, that ruined all, so AI asked me to fix this issue edit another file, and again I've done wrong that I pasted code given by it and now I have wasted web application that took me too much time to build, so be careful everyone with AI building process.
Yeah AI definitely helps and works against you at the same time. I can't use it when programming because it ends up just causing more errors than what I could do. But when making revisions it is good. It seems to be very picky on what it can do.
yeah, I agree, good point. we learn through the process that what it's limitations. I found Gemini very best for generating realistic images, writing code and designing good UI can be dong with Gemini, its nice tool I experienced.
I havent tried Gemini, maybe I should.