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Your app got busy and crashed — it ran out of desk space

RAM is the desk your computer works on: fast, and wiped the moment the power's off. Why a busy app runs out, how it differs from storage, and how it relates to a GPU's VRAM. Tap to see it fill.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

Flat illustration of a conveyor belt of coloured blocks, new ones added on the right, the oldest tipping off the left end

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Why the AI keeps forgetting what you told it — and how to stop it

The model has no memory of its own. Once a conversation outgrows its window, your earlier decisions quietly fall out. See what drops, what gets summarised, and the habit that keeps what matters in view.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

how much system RAM do you actually need for local AI? more than you think, if you offload

Everyone obsesses over VRAM, but system RAM matters too — especially the moment you try to run a model bigger than your GPU. Here's the real number for every kind of local-AI setup.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min