Yes, and their doc pages and personal site of the same name. Here’s hoping they don’t resurface the same code under a new name

+1 for ‘lap dogg’

I don’t think there’s a straightforward way like a HACS integration yet, but you can access Ollama from the web with open-webui and save the page to your homepage:

Just be warned, you’ll need a lot of resources depending on which model you choose and its parameter count (4B, 7B etc) – Gemma3 4B uses around 3GB storage, 0.5GB RAM and 4GB of VRAM to respond. It’s a compromise as I can’t get replacement RAM, and tends to be wildly inaccurate with large responses. The one I’d rather use, Dolphin-Mixtral 22B, takes 80GB storage and 17GB min RAM, the latter of which I can’t afford to take from my other services.

Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix

Yes* - I haven’t used Discord in a long time as its bloat simply doesn’t interest me, but for communicating with folk:

Matrix, at least for me, is great, but the most capable mobile client Element has many broken or missing features.
Classic, but not X, has:

• working calls via STUN/TURN,
• an emoji menu,
• correctly showing chat profile images (X duplicates the most recent one for all chats),
• and the ability to create unencrypted group chats (purely for public memes).

X, but not Classic, has:

• attachment captions,
• HD images,
• markdown support,
• a more modern UI,
• and (when it works) fully encrypted 1-1 and conference calls via Matrix Livekit.

I currently dual-wield the two because neither is enough yet, and most other clients lack call functionality entirely.

XMPP, at least for me, is nearly perfect. It just works and I find the fact that desktop clients still look like AOL Messenger quite charming. However it has:

• very manual encryption key management, meaning even I find trusting a new device daunting let alone any adopters,
• no backward decryption, meaning message history needs to be exported and transferred to a new device,
• plaintext serverside storage for several pieces of data. It’s my server so ownership isn’t a worry, but it’s a massive security risk in the albeit unlikely event of a hack or hijack.

I chose higher encryption and easier adoption between Matrix and XMPP but wish there was a more fulfilling option.