Tag: ollama
2 articles
· llm / fine-tuning
How to fine-tune a small LLM in 2026 (LoRA on a laptop)
Fine-tune Llama 3.1 8B with QLoRA on a consumer GPU — pinned Unsloth install, exact training config, GGUF export to Ollama, and eight failure modes.
· ollama / lm-studio
Ollama vs LM Studio on Mac — which survives daily use?
LM Studio wins on throughput and memory. Ollama wins on time-to-first-token and CLI setup. Here is when each choice makes sense on Apple Silicon.