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LM Studio 0.4

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Re: LM Studio 0.4

#61

Post by Der_Einzige »

Why is it that there are ZERO truly prosumer LLM front ends from anyone you can pay?

The closest thing we have to an LLM front end where you can actually CONTROL your model (i.e. advanced sampling settings) is oobabooga/sillytavern - both ultimately UIs designed mostly for "roleplay/cooming". It's the same shit with image gen and ComfyUI too!!!

LM Studio purported to be something like those two, but it has NEVER properly supported even a small fraction of the settings that LLMs use, and thus it's DOA for prosumer/pros.

I'm glad that claude code and moltbot are killing this whole genre of Software since apparently VC backed developers can't be trusted to make it.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

#62

Post by maxkfranz »

sfifs wrote: post #52
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...

If you're running your apps on Kubernetes, standard ingress supports certs. For small applications, Cloudflare TLS on free tier is dead simple

Cloudflare tunnels makes this easy as it gets. It also makes it easy for only you to have access to it, either through sign in or OTPs.

You don’t want some random person to find your LMStudio service and then point their Opencode at it.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by maxkfranz »

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.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

#64

Post by pram »

Is there an iOS/Android app that supports the LM Studio API(s) endpoints? That seems to be the "missing" client, especially now with llmster (tbh I haven't looked very hard)

Re: LM Studio 0.4

#65

Post by echelon »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #61

Why is it that there are ZERO truly prosumer LLM front ends from anyone you can pay? The closest thing we have to an LLM front end where you can actually CONTROL your model (i.e. advanced sampling settings) is oobabooga/sillytavern - both ultimately UIs designed mostly for "roleplay/cooming". It's the same shit with image gen and ComfyUI too!!! LM Studio purported to be something like those two, but it has NEVER prop…

I'm working on the image / video space. You can pay us or byok. It's a fair source license, still TBD:

https://github.com/storytold/artcraft

Roadmap: Auth with all frontier AI image/video model providers, FAL, other aggregators. Focus on tangible creation rather than node graphs (for now).

I'm a filmmaker, so I'm making this for my studio and colleagues.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by echelon »

khimaros wrote: post #25

this is not open source

They have an extensive GitHub full of stuff. What portions are not open source?

Is this like "OpenRouter" where they don't have any of the core product actually available?

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by whalesalad »

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...

tbh I would prefer that an application not do this, and allow me the choice and control of putting a proxy in front of it.

analog could be car infotainment systems: don't give me your half-baked shitty infotainment, i have carplay, let me use it.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

#68

Post by redrove »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #61

Why is it that there are ZERO truly prosumer LLM front ends from anyone you can pay? The closest thing we have to an LLM front end where you can actually CONTROL your model (i.e. advanced sampling settings) is oobabooga/sillytavern - both ultimately UIs designed mostly for "roleplay/cooming". It's the same shit with image gen and ComfyUI too!!! LM Studio purported to be something like those two, but it has NEVER prop…

You’re forgetting about Open WebUI.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

#69

Post by alasr »

ai_critic wrote: post #59
alasr wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What exactly is the difference between lms and llmsterm? With lms, LM Studio's frontend GUI/desktop application and its backend LLM API server (for OpenAI compatibility API endpoints) are tightly coupled: stopping LM Studio's GUI/desktop application will trigger stopping of LM Studio's backend LLM API server. With llmsterm, they've been decoupled now; it (llmsterm) enables one, as LM Studio announcement says, to "d…

But like, llmsterm still results in using the `lms` command, right? Or am I misreading the docs?

I think you're reading the docs correct: one still uses "lms server [command]" command to manage an LM Studio (LMS) server.

Re: LM Studio 0.4

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Post by gostsamo »

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.

currently working on a personal project where part of the pipeline is recognizing lots of images. the employer let me use gemini for personal use, but wasting large amount of tokens on gemini3 pro ocr limited my work. flash gives worse result, but there are ways to retry. good for development, but long term, simpler parts of a pipeline could be dedicated to a local model. I can imagine many other use cases where you want large volume of low difficulty tasks at close to zero cost.
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