That Thing You Do
May. 7th, 2026 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperToday was research day. I have learned a lot of things. I have a lot more things to learn.
I now have two free LLMs downloaded on my desktop computer -- which is happily robust. Free is a good price. Also, the shim application that I'm using to manage this has a plugin that links to Duck Duck Go, so it can supplement the LLM's data set with web searches, which is a *very* good thing.
I am working to get Visual Studio Code configured, because it is *also* free. I will find out what the limitations are eventually. :)
And -- since I have a Synology NAS sitting on my desk -- I can have a Git Server. And now I do.
This is awesomely close to being a development environment.
Which is cool.
I now have two free LLMs downloaded on my desktop computer -- which is happily robust. Free is a good price. Also, the shim application that I'm using to manage this has a plugin that links to Duck Duck Go, so it can supplement the LLM's data set with web searches, which is a *very* good thing.
I am working to get Visual Studio Code configured, because it is *also* free. I will find out what the limitations are eventually. :)
And -- since I have a Synology NAS sitting on my desk -- I can have a Git Server. And now I do.
This is awesomely close to being a development environment.
Which is cool.