Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: one character LoRA across 6 Anima derivatives, same prompt/seed. Trigger-only never stabilizes, RDBT bolts to beast-ears, structure tags fix it.
Hands-on with Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B Q4_K_M (1.08GB) on M1 Max 64GB via llama-server. JSON, SRT, HTML, glossary, and minority-language prompts with full input-output pairs. The 1.25bit 440MB build does not load on stock llama.cpp 8990, and 30B-A3B (hy_v3) is not in the Mac route yet.
Ran WAI-Anima v1.0 with a custom character LoRA on an M1 Mac to see if 2- and 3-character compositions actually hold up. Notes on what breaks and what holds at different LoRA weights, with practical settings that stay stable.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB: SetLatentNoiseMask returns unchanged images on Anima and Anima-Turbo with no error. LanPaint alone takes 32 min per image; adding Inpaint-CropAndStitch drops text inpaint to 2:31 and clothing replacement to about 7 min.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: Anima-Base v1.0 matches preview3-base in speed; WAI-Anima kana LoRA hits 22% on light prompts but 67% with hood+robe+embroidery added.
Tested Q_rsqrt on Apple M4 (Mac mini) and Zen 3 (Ryzen 5800HS / WSL2). M4's -O2 already rewrites 1/sqrtf to frsqrte and ties Q_rsqrt; x86 clang needs -ffast-math or hits a 12x gap. Hand-written NEON/SSE wrappers turn out slower. Newton 0/1/2 error and the Lomont constant covered too.
oMLX 0.3.9.dev2 release notes from the angle of Codex/Copilot on Mac local LLMs: Gemma 4 VLM MTP, DFlash, omlx launch copilot, SSD KV cache — what each changes for agent workflows.
Tested Klein 9B + 9B NSFW LoRA on M1 Max 64GB via mflux 0.17.5: 1m51s/512, 5m37s/1024 q4, 224/224 LoRA keys match, NSFW prompts uncensored, Japanese subjects work with helper tokens.
Klein 4B / 9B / Base LoRAs aren't cross-compatible — a 9B NSFW LoRA throws 'lora key not loaded' on mflux's 4B path. The variant map, what mflux runs today, and where the working hands-on test lives.
Three local image generation engines (WAI-Anima, WAI-IL/SDXL, FLUX.2 Klein 4B) tied together by a thin FastAPI wrapper that takes Japanese prompts. Ollama (gemma3:12b) handles JP→EN, ComfyUI workflows are built on the fly in Python, FLUX.2 runs as an mflux subprocess, and the whole thing is reachable from an iPhone over Tailscale.
Hands-on log of building the DEV article's PDF RAG on M1 Max 64GB, extending it with images via CLIP, and pushing through Japanese with bge-m3 + Qwen3.6 35B. Documents the modality gap, the dual inference server crash, and LLM-jp 4-8B's empty chat template silently dropping the system role.
