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FWIW I did just try deepseek-r1:1.5b (the smallest model available via ollama today) and ... not bad at all for 1.1Gb!

It's still AI BS generating slop without "thinking" at all ... but from the few tests I ran, it might be one of the "least worst" smaller model I tried.

There are plenty of ways and they are all safe. Don't think of DeepSeek as anything more than a (extremely large, like bigger than a AAA) videogame. It does take resources, e.g disk space and RAM and GPU VRAM (if you have some) but you can use "just" the weights and thus the executable might come from another project, an open-source one that will not "phone home" (assuming that's your worry).

I detail this kind of things and more in https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence but to be more pragmatic I'd recommend ollama which supports https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

So, assuming you have a relatively entry level computer you can install ollama then ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b and try.

Google was "cool" 2 decades ago... or before they combined both monetization (through ad) with power (through monopoly) they inexorably transformed EXACTLY to Microsoft the same way Facebook/Meta did the Google playbook.

Those huge tech corporations are pulled by the market to follow the same, sadly successful, strategy playbook and keep no uniqueness.

Google has been the new Microsoft for years already but through careful marketing consumers somehow believe they aren't.

Indeed, so still a good advice, thanks for sharing

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!

Well they didn't "write" it, just formatted it, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale

Wow look at Mr FancyPants over there, your server has a screen, I just got something (RPi) the size of a matchbox! /s

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Windows

Take that back... /s

Takes literally minutes to try with 0 install and no risk for your data : https://distrosea.com/start/kubuntu-24.10-default/

I'm not saying you should enjoy it (even though I do, Debian stable with Plasma for a while now) but it's so convenient to give any distribution with any desktop environment a try that IMHO it's wrong not to spend few minutes and see what you might be missing.

Local only.

I'd then buy bacon to eat the Brussels sprout, they aren't actually that bad, just stinky to boil.

If I were the dad I'd get tricked once... then keep the evil one and use it as weight comparison point for all others. I don't need to unwrap any. The light ones, if there are any, are the good ones. I'd do that while looking in her eyes grinning knowing how long this little ordeal took for her to make.