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[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I absolutely hate people naming their program with a word that existed before. At least call it Allpaca ffs. How should I search for errors or stuff in general?

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 25 points 5 months ago

especially considering KDE already has an application with almost exactly the same name for the same purpose https://invent.kde.org/utilities/alpaka

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago

Could have named it AIpaca.

[–] boredsquirrel 12 points 5 months ago

Alpaca harrasses me help

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

The horrors of typing in your prospective project name in a search engine

[–] rar@discuss.online 4 points 5 months ago

Wait until someone screams 'AI will help'.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it better than Ollama and if so how?

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's a frontend for ollama. so no, because under the hood it is ollama.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

thanks for the clarification, so arguably then it's a better interface for user who are not familiar with the CLI

[–] wisha@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks nice! Is this yours (OP)? If so, are you aware of Bavarder? It seems to have quite some features. (But it is unmaintained and broken right now so Alpaca is a welcome replacement.)

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Nope, I'm not the developer, I just found it really interesting and decided to share

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is what I needed. I will run this locally and run ollama in a VM.

Although podman and Distrobox look tempting.