🌴 Freedom Tech Weekend 19 ☀️ You can run your own AI! This episode is packed with tips for running AI tools locally and on the web. It's much easier than you think. Learn how to run open‑source AI locally on your laptop with LM Studio, Comfy UI, Whisper, and more. Do text chat, image, video, audio, and write code. We do a speed test between @Maple AI and LM Studio ⏱️👀

Freedom Tech Weekend going live in 30 mins. Today we're looking at running open-source AI locally on your computer. A few we'll look at: - Text chat with OpenAI - Image gen with Qwen - Audio processing with Whisper

People love to say “just wait until you hit X age, your body won’t move the same”. Ignore them. Keep living a healthy life everyday. Good food, good sun, good movement, good sleep.

When the intern has AI image gen your chart for the boss

Imagine if you had built your business process and fine-tuned it to a current ChatGPT model. That model is going away and you could see a material impact to your company. With open-source AI models, once you nail your process, you can stay on that model as long as you want.

Text thread from a year ago when the Japan carry trade unwound. Guess which one I am in the convo. It hit $49K that day.

Airbnb host being shady with the AI. Stay vigilant, guests.

This needs to stop

Sunday afternoon, reading outside, catching sun, touching grass

gn turtles

The only solution is encryption, like you find in @Maple AI. “Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions.”

All safe on Oahu. Got back to the residence after spending 6 hours hanging out on a hillside with 300 strangers. Met some really cool people and their pets. So much hospitality was extended from people we didn’t know and would never see again. 🤙

40 mins from tsunami impact here in Hawaii.

Hodl Waves, tsunami edition

We leave Texas after the floods for vacation. And then we get this. lol We have the best of luck. 🤙 Hanging out at 140ft elevation in an evacuation spot.

The Freedom Tech Weekend stream time this weekend is TBD. Could be Fri, Sat, or Sun.