Reddit user roots LG TV with Qwen 3.8 Flash on underspecced PC
Read original source →reddit.comA LocalLLaMA poster ran Qwen 3.8 Flash through an opencode harness on an underspecced machine to root an LG TV and strip its adware and spyware. They called the model's performance in that setup impressive.
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