Cloud based solutions in selfhosted are a hilarious suggestion.

I would suggest avoiding anything that is a “community” or “personal use only”. If its not fully open its not worth it.

100% you don’t have to train a thing ollama uses open availability models. They many are decent, the best use a lot of ram/vram.

I believe his goto comment on git is that its current maintainer did/does far more work on git them him.

Thank god for that dude.