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Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by post-it on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:22AM (#50469892)
> I want a more challenging device, what do you think?

One of those vapes with a screen on it.

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:35AM (#50470088)
challenge accepted.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by pcthrowaway on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:01AM (#50479432)
I have about 12 of these Rifbar Mixpads saved up: https://rifbar.com/product-mixpro

They have a color LCD display that looks unnecessarily good considering what it does. You can see an example of one of the animations at the 52s mark in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peNyiLt5SKk&t=52s

I've got no idea what's inside of it yet but I'm open to tinkering if someone can walk me through it

I doubt any vape is powerful enough to run any LLM on its own, but idk if it's possible to run one on a cluster of vapes.

Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:46AM (#50479787)
a cluster of vapes running an LLM would be insane. a single vape of these though may run a small LLM like few hundred thousand parameters, worth tinkering with.
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by pcthrowaway on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:57AM (#50482241)
Vapes typically have less than 100KB of RAM, though I haven't been able to find specs for the Rifbars yet. But I assumed even if they're 1MB that's still not enough to run any kind of LLM right?
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by mrashad74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:35AM (#50482635)
not usable ones tho, but something like Karapathy's LLM may run
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by gunsle on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#50486025)
A cluster of vapes, lmao
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by NooneAtAll5 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:33PM (#50471960)
literal vaporware?
Re:I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices by aa-jv on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:12AM (#50481137)
Vape-coding.