Local AI
Choosing Ollama Evidence for Request Phases and Hardware Placement
Use response usage fields to describe work within a request, and use a separate ollama ps observation to record where a loaded model resides.
Topic
Local AI
Operating local models with explicit privacy, hardware, and deployment trade-offs.
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3 articles
Local AI
Choosing an Ollama Exposure Boundary Without Treating Usage Metrics as Privacy Evidence
A practical review separates network reachability, cloud-feature state, and response telemetry so that timing and token fields are not mistaken for privacy evidence.
Local AI
Choosing an Ollama Model-Residency Policy Without Misreading Usage Metrics
A policy guide for separating model-residency choices from per-response evidence, with a four-case decision record and a hypothetical failure review.