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Local LLMs on Spare Apple Silicon: A Cautionary Tale
Can an admin use old Apple Silicon hardware lying around to run local LLMs?
I spent some time playing around with Local LLMs on Apple Silicon. Here's how that played out.
Local LLMs on Spare Apple Silicon: A Cautionary Tale macadminmusings.com/blog/2026/01...
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@mhdksafa for the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either (from 2023)
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macOS Threat and Detections Researcher @ Jamf
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System Administrator at a Dutch hospital. Loving music, gadgets and general geek stuff.
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Fascinated by everything. I *might* know a 'lil #python & #pyobjc. All statements are my own; I do not speak for my employer. Sandbender for life. He/him [β¦]
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MacAdmin, Consultant, and Author, writes on scriptingosx.com and macadmins.news
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computer security person. former helpdesk
Mac Admin greybeard. Scouter. Dad. Dork. Detroit Lions fan. New VisionOS fan.
full stack nerd. a sysadmin playing pokemon and listening to nin. occasional programmer of python, swift, shell. bheinz on MacAdmins slack.
An experienced everything admin. Jamf, Okta, Slack, Google Workspace, etc. etc.
Looking for a new job.
(My employer was acquired by a Fortune 20 enterprise that didn't need another admin.)
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Husband, father, MacAdmin, Science Enthusiast, Friend to Animals, Part-time Tokusatsu Dinosaur, Raging feminist. Fuck Fascists, mysogyinists, transphobes, racists, nazis, etc. Opinions are mine alone. Purveyor of fine dad jokes. It's OK to punch Nazis.
Job: Managing Apple things. Hobby: Buying a lot of music. Western front of Chicagoland with the parts of a great family who haven't grown up and moved out yet. I support all coups at the zoo.
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