What I've noticed about running Gemma 4 12B Unified

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I'm new to local LLMs. When I learned that Google's Gemma 4 12B fits on my 4060 TI 16 GB, I set it up with Ollama and started playing. (It's worth pointing out that I don't do any coding tasks). I was confronted with how raw local models require more instruction, and how stubborn this one is about its context cut off. I learned that I have to use something like Open Web UI to get that polished cloud experience. And it worked, for the most part. Bit of a learning curve setting up the search fu