ship alpaca, newelle LLM tools, to desktop devices

unfortunately they don't cross compile (yet)

newelle is my favored app atm, will likely remove one or the other after daily driving a bit

hosts/common/programs/alpaca.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# alpaca: ollama llm client
+# - super simple, easy UI
+# - doesn't seem to do any prompt tuning;
+#   inherits all the pathologies of the underlying model (e.g. makes up citations)
+#
+# it creates a config dir, `~/.config/com.jeffser.Alpaca`, but apparently empty
+#
+# TODO: configure ollama connection details statically
+{ ... }:
+{
+  sane.programs.alpaca = {
+    sandbox.net = "all";  # maybe only needs wireguard, actually
+    sandbox.whitelistWayland = true;
+    sandbox.mesaCacheDir = ".cache/com.jeffser.Alpaca/mesa";
+
+    sandbox.whitelistDbus.user.own = [ "com.jeffser.Alpaca" ];
+    sandbox.whitelistPortal = [
+      "OpenURI"
+    ];
+    sandbox.whitelistSendNotifications = true;
+
+    persist.byStore.ephemeral = [
+      ".cache/com.jeffser.Alpaca"  #< ?
+      ".local/share/com.jeffser.Alpaca"  #< chats? also downloaded ollama data
+    ];
+  };
+}

hosts/common/programs/assorted.nix

@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ in
       "pcGameApps"
       "pcTuiApps"
       ####
+      "alpaca"  # ollama/LLM client
       "audacity"
       "brave"  # for the integrated wallet -- as a backup
       # "cantata"  # music player (mpd frontend)
@@ -432,6 +433,7 @@ in
       # "makemkv"  # x86-only
       # "monero-gui"  # x86-only
       "mumble"
+      "newelle"  # ollama/LLM client
       # "nheko"  # Matrix chat client
       "nicotine-plus"  # soulseek client
       # "obsidian"

hosts/common/programs/default.nix

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     ./abaddon.nix
     ./aerc.nix
     ./alacritty.nix
+    ./alpaca.nix
     ./alsa-ucm-conf
     ./animatch.nix
     ./assorted.nix
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@
     ./nautilus.nix
     ./neovim
     ./networkmanager_dmenu
+    ./newelle.nix
     ./newsflash.nix
     ./nheko.nix
     ./nicotine-plus.nix

hosts/common/programs/newelle.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# newelle: ollama llm client
+# - does some extra prompt tuning beyond ollama's defaults,
+#   to decrease pathologies
+# - intelligent formatting of model output (e.g. latex, markdown)
+#
+# TODO: configure ollama connection details statically
+{ ... }:
+{
+  sane.programs.newelle = {
+    sandbox.net = "all";  # maybe only needs wireguard, actually
+    sandbox.whitelistWayland = true;
+    sandbox.mesaCacheDir = ".cache/Newelle/mesa";
+
+    persist.byStore.ephemeral = [
+      ".cache/Newelle"  # extensions
+      ".config/Newelle"  # chat logs
+    ];
+  };
+}
+