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Local LLM on a 16GB Mac Mini: Replacing GitHub Copilot with Ollama + Qwen

Dev.to•Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 06:35 PM•2 min read

I kept paying a monthly subscription for a cloud coding assistant while a 16GB M4 Mac mini sat on my desk idling most of the day. So I ran the obvious experiment: can a 16GB Mac mini run a coding assistant entirely offline — no code leaving the machine, no subscription — and is it actually usabl...

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