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		ethan_smith 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ollama's new app You can work around this by using SSH port forwarding (ssh -L 11434:localhost:11434 user@remote) to connect to a remote Ollama instance, though native support would definitely be better.

stavros 9 months ago [–]

Wait, it already connects over the network, it just doesn't let you specify the hostname? That's really surprising to me.

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