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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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How I turned an old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered OCR server using Apple's Vision framework. Running 24/7 off-grid, processing thousands of images.

Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

2026140 points99 comments AI & Machine Learning details

Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.