Why Pay for ChatGPT at 35,000 Feet?

TLDR I watched a tmux-popup video on my flight and realized the ChatGPT trick it showed needed wifi, which I didn’t have. Ollama doesn’t. So I rebuilt the pop-up and added a local-model picker to prefix + a. Asked nine local models the same question. One model gave a confident but wrong answer, two didn’t finish, and the fastest one got it right in three seconds. /bye auto-copies the conversation to your clipboard. ...

April 25, 2026 · 9 min · Viktor Gamov