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I don't know that this is really a good idea, but if you insist then LM studio is a good tool for local LLMs and has nicely formatted output. Smaller 4B models will probably run fine (they do on my M2 Pro at least). I prefer it to ollama, and it makes tuning the system prompt and temperature easy.

Others will probably have better model recommendations, I am using Mistral and Gemma myself.

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Thanks, I've analyzed this situation from every angle, and I just don't see how relying on LLMs for survival information out in the wilderness could be a bad idea. I'll check LM studio. So far it looks much easier than Ollama.

Man, you must do some extreme camping. When we go, we worry about what kind of marshmallows would be best on smores, not what life or death situation awaits us that only a heroic LLM can resolve (and hopefully not hallucinate to our deaths).

Yes. I plan on foraging for mushrooms and eating the ones my open source vision model tells me are edible.

I hope you're joking, lol, unless you really like mycological Russian Roulette.

(There are lethal lookalike mushrooms that a vision model or even trained expert can't necessarily tell apart at just a glance)

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