Tim Uckun (Nov 08 2024 at 19:47): Tim Uckun (Nov 08 2024 at 19:47):I bought my wife an M1 iMac a while back and most of the time it sits there doing nothing. All she does is basically use safari to do web stuff and youtube and stuff.
I want to make better use of this machine. It doesn't have a lot of disk space or RAM (minimal configuration).
Any suggestions? Obviously I could put an external drive and make it a file server but I don't really need a file server as all my laptops have enough space and the important documents are backed up to icloud.
Siddhartha Golu (Nov 09 2024 at 05:36):Maybe look into setting up some machine learning projects for tinkering? If it is an entry level Mac, maybe you can try setting up Ollama and try to run some smaller models like Qwen-1.5B for coding autocomplete.
mlx-whisper would also be a good project to play around with. I personally use it extensively in my language learning journey. I no longer look for accurate subtitles for any French media, the Whisper Turbo + mlx_whisper works amazingly well.
Tim Uckun (Nov 09 2024 at 06:09):I guess I'll have to set it for remote usage first. Maybe I'll give coder a try...
Ron Waldon-Howe (Nov 09 2024 at 06:14):I don't know that you'll for sure figure out a better use for it than the utility your spouse is already enjoying :)
iMacs have a built-in webcam and microphone, right? There might be something neat you can do with computer vision? :shrug:
Adam Stacoviak (Nov 09 2024 at 15:23):Local LLM usage for sure and you could expose that as a service outside the network. Docker for sure. Plex. Is it 10Gbe?
Tim Uckun (Nov 09 2024 at 20:32):@Ron Waldon-Howe My wife doesn't use it all the time and she doesn't use it to full capacity so that's why I was thinking it's being underutilized.
@Adam Stacoviak it's on wifi like all other other devices in the house.
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