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A Builder's Offline-AI Install Business Goes Viral: Mac Mini in a Hard Case, $1,200 Checks From Local Shops
A widely shared post (1,608 engagements, 67K views) describes an operator walking into local businesses with a Mac Mini in a hard case and leaving with $1,200 checks for installing AI that runs with no internet connection. It is the clearest recent example of local/air-gapped inference being sold as a service to non-technical small businesses rather than as a hobbyist setup. Treat the revenue claim as unverified — the account is unattributed in the feed and the numbers are self-reported — but the pattern is worth watching now that frontier-class open weights like Kimi K3 exist.
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