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April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 12B on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive

April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon)

Prerequisites

  • Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5)
  • At least 16GB unified memory for Gemma 4 (default 8B)
  • macOS with Homebrew installed
#!/bin/bash
# Installs the XCode command line tools if you don't have them
xcode-select --install
# Installs brew if you don't have it
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
# Makes your account the owner of /usr/local, which is preferred on single user Macs
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
# Installs all the dependencies for building libtorrent and rtorrent
brew install automake libtool boost curl lzlib libsigc++ openssl pkg-config xmlrpc-c
# Uninstall libtorrent-rasterbar if you already have it