Tater – Tater v84
🥔 Tater v84 — “Runs On Whatever Weird Thing You Own” 😏💻
If you’ve been looking for a way to run a powerful, local-native AI assistant without sacrificing privacy, Tater is your new best friend. Powered by the Hydra four-headed planning engine (Astraeus, Thanatos, Minos, and Hermes), it handles everything from perception to speech using your own local LLMs via Ollama or LM Studio. Whether you’re automating your Home Assistant setup or chatting via Discord or Telegram, Tater keeps your data exactly where it belongs: with you.
The v84 update is all about embracing “Frankenstein” hardware! This release focuses on making Tater run smoothly on everything from high-end rigs to that old Linux box gathering dust in the corner.
⚙️ New Setup Profiles
Say goodbye to manual configuration headaches. The new `setup_tater.sh` script now includes hardware-specific profiles for:
- CPU & macOS
- NVIDIA GPUs
- AMD (ROCm / Strix Halo)
- NVIDIA Jetson (Thor)
🧠 Smarter Hardware Detection
Tater is getting much sharper at detecting and routing acceleration paths. This ensures models like Kokoro, SpeechBrain, and Faster Whisper behave predictably across various backends, including Apple Metal/MPS, MLX, AMD ROCm, and NVIDIA CUDA.
🖥️ Cleaner Runtime Startup
The `run_ui.sh` script has been streamlined to reduce friction. It now auto-loads your runtime profile settings and automatically utilizes your `.venv`. Less “startup nonsense,” more time actually using your potato! 🥔