Someone got an offline LLM running on a 2015 Kindle Paperwhite, even if it’s quite slow
AI-generated summary A developer named Pragyaan Gaur on GitHub created Inkwell to run an Alpine Linux userspace on a jailbroken 2015 Kindle Paperwhite. The project includes a chatbot called Quill that runs SmolLM2 through llama.cpp on the e-ink device at about 1.7 words per second.