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How to Externalize Ollama Storage Location on macOS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Ollama is a powerful tool for working with AI models, but its default storage location on macOS can quickly fill up your internal drive. If you're working with large models or have limited disk space, it's essential to change the Ollama storage location to an external drive. If you're searching for a way to change the Ollama storage location on your Mac, you're likely to find a plethora of incomplete and misleading instructions scattered across the web. A quick Google search will yield a dozen or so results, each promising to provide a straightforward solution to this seemingly simple problem. However, as you delve deeper into these guides, you'll quickly realize that they're nothing more than half-baked gloss-overs, lacking the crucial details and nuance necessary to successfully navigate the process. You may find blog posts that briefly mention the importance of setting the OLLAMA_MODELS environment variable, only to leave you hanging without explaining how to...

Why site‑quality‑monitoring.com creates more problems than it solves

Photo by Mikhail Nilov @ Pexels Visitors to a website expect invisibility from its caretakers: patches applied, certificates renewed and pixels painted, all without fuss. When it comes to uptime monitoring,  Site‑quality‑monitoring.com , the cPanel bolt‑on powered by Koality, promises to shoulder that duty on behalf of harried webmasters. Too often, alas, it delivers the opposite: spurious outages, inflated server loads, and triggering of a trail of firewall alerts that would make even a cyber‑crime bureau blush. A bull in the server room Koality’s crawler prides itself on realism, fetching pages with a full headless Chrome browser rather than a polite HTTP probe. Its own documentation boasts that each page is “rendered… using a real browser (Chrome)” so that JavaScript‑heavy sites can be inspected like a human would view them. Noble in theory; ruinous in practice. A headless browser drags in fonts, images and third‑party scripts, pounding smal...