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Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by chris_st »

embedding-shape wrote: post #109
chris_st wrote: post #103

My complaint is that LM Studio insists on installing as admin on my Mac. For no apparent reason, and they refuse to say why.

Is this possibly the same as this issue? https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/4... I've only use LM Desktop on Linux and Windows, never seen anything asking for elevated permissions.

Nope - on macOS, almost all apps are just "drag this to wherever (usually your own personal application folder)" and they work perfectly, since they don't need admin privileges. But this one insists on running from /Applications - the root application directory - and for reason. To install there, you have to be admin. I really don't want apps installed as admin, and possibly then able to get admin privileges. It's just basic security.

There's a thread on their Discord that was reported in February of last year. No fix, no comments.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by mycall »

tarruda wrote: post #118
mycall wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Concurrency is an important use case when running multiple agents. vLLM can squeeze performance out of your GB10 or GPU that you wouldn't get otherwise.

I'm only interested in the local, single user use case. Plus I use a Mac studio for inference, so vLLM is not an option for me.

You can get concurrency gains [0] as local/single user (multi-agent) use case with vLLM with your Mac Studio.

[0] https://youtu.be/Ze5XLooTt6g?t=658

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by ekianjo »

thousand_nights wrote: post #12

man they really butchered the user interface, the "dark" mode now isn't even dark, it's just grey, and it's looking more like a whitespacemaxxed children's toy than a tool for professionals

yeah it looks worse than before

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by JayDustheadz »

maxkfranz wrote: post #63
saberience wrote: post #6

What’s the main use-case for this? I get that I can run local models, but all the paid for (remote) models are superior. So is the use-case just for people who don’t want to use big tech’s models? Is this just for privacy conscious people? Or is this just for “adult” chats, ie porn bots? Not being cynical here, just wanting to understand the genuine reasons people are using it.

Yeah, it’s not going to compare to Codex-5.2 or Opus 4.5. Some non-programming use cases are interesting though, e.g. text to speech or speech to text. Run a TTS model overnight on a book, and in the morning you’ll get an audiobook. With a simple approach, you’d get something more like the old books on tape (e.g. no chapter skipping), but regardless, it’s a valid use case.

Which TTS would you suggest? Anything out there that is able to properly see/handle modulation, punctuation and overall sentence 'mood'? I've been looking for something easy to set up but most is either extremely complex or is producing output of relatively poor quality.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by embedding-shape »

chris_st wrote: post #121
embedding-shape wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this possibly the same as this issue? https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/4... I've only use LM Desktop on Linux and Windows, never seen anything asking for elevated permissions.

Nope - on macOS, almost all apps are just "drag this to wherever (usually your own personal application folder)" and they work perfectly, since they don't need admin privileges. But this one insists on running from /Applications - the root application directory - and for reason. To install there, you have to be admin. I really don't want apps installed as admin, and possibly then able to get admin privileges. It's ju…

Long time ago I used macOS, but aren't you confusing things here? Yes, you need admin permission to put stuff in /Applications, but that doesn't mean the applications inside of /Applications get root access by default, or even in any other mean that applications located elsewhere. Am I getting that wrong?

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by fragmede »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #30
ssalka wrote: post #26

Personally, I would not run LM Studio anywhere outside of my local network as it still doesn't support adding an SSL cert. I guess you can just layer a proxy server on top of it, but if it's meant to be easy to set up, it seems like a quick win that I don't see any reason not to build support for. https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/1...

Because adding a caddy/nginx/apache + letsencrypt is a couple of bash commands between install and setup, and those http servers + TLS termination is going to be 100x better than what LMS adds themselves, as it isn't their core competency.

so have LMS bundle caddy?

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by chris_st »

embedding-shape wrote: post #126
chris_st wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - on macOS, almost all apps are just "drag this to wherever (usually your own personal application folder)" and they work perfectly, since they don't need admin privileges. But this one insists on running from /Applications - the root application directory - and for reason. To install there, you have to be admin. I really don't want apps installed as admin, and possibly then able to get admin privileges. It's ju…

Long time ago I used macOS, but aren't you confusing things here? Yes, you need admin permission to put stuff in /Applications, but that doesn't mean the applications inside of /Applications get root access by default, or even in any other mean that applications located elsewhere. Am I getting that wrong?

Honestly, I don't know! I should write an app and see who it runs as. I did an `ls -l /Applications`, and while every file is owned by `root`, none has the `suid` bit set.

LM Studio doesn't have an installer. Those often have to run as admin, and who knows what they're doing then, so that probably wrongly set my concerns about putting stuff in /Applications/.

I'll dig around the interwebs and see if this is answered elsewhere.

Thanks!

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by chris_st »

embedding-shape wrote: post #126
chris_st wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - on macOS, almost all apps are just "drag this to wherever (usually your own personal application folder)" and they work perfectly, since they don't need admin privileges. But this one insists on running from /Applications - the root application directory - and for reason. To install there, you have to be admin. I really don't want apps installed as admin, and possibly then able to get admin privileges. It's ju…

Long time ago I used macOS, but aren't you confusing things here? Yes, you need admin permission to put stuff in /Applications, but that doesn't mean the applications inside of /Applications get root access by default, or even in any other mean that applications located elsewhere. Am I getting that wrong?

Turns out the apps in /Application/ run as you. Problem (between keyboard and chair :-) solved.
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