[AIT] Local LLM for Server Setup Guidance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by Lumisal@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Looking for a recommendation on an LLM that can guide a user on how to manually set up a home server that runs Jellyfin, Arr Stack, etc. Have a couple of friends interested and I have some spare old NUCs I was going to give them, so I was going to download the software for them and then walk them through it.

But it'll be difficult to align our schedules for the next month or so (school starting and different time zones) so then I thought maybe I could just run an LLM they could use on my main PC for when they have time.

Why not just use one of the existing services? Those cost extra money and none of us want to financially support those companies.

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[-] mortalic@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Probably setup ollama with qwen and aider first. Then give it the docs for the things you want to set up.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I have the Alpaca Flatpak, can I set this up in that or is Ollama better? I'm running on Debian

[-] mortalic@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Never used alpaca. So I can't help there.

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