StayLameBro / backburner
Your iPhone helps your Mac run a 27B model: faster prompt reading and more context over a USB-C cable
Why this job: topics: apple-silicon, llama-cpp, local-llm, llm-inference
What it does
Plug your iPhone into your MacBook with a 10 Gb/s USB-C cable and it helps run Qwen3.8-27B locally:
Get started
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StayLameBro/backburner/main/install.sh | bash
backburner phone
# once per phone: plug it in, open Backburner, copies the phone's half over the cable
backburner
# OpenAI-compatible server at http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 1,174
- +19 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- 4 releases
- None marked latest
- Built with
- Python
- 28% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 5
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 67% closed
- 4 still open
- Pull requests
- 22 merged
- 2 waiting
- Releases
- 4
- 4 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 28%
- Objective-C++ 22%
- C++ 14%
- Shell 14%
Topics
- apple-silicon
- ios
- iphone
- llama-cpp
- llm-inference
- local-llm
- macos
- metal
- qwen
- sme2
- speculative-decoding
Project record
- JobLocal LLMs
- StatusListed
- Commits43
- Forks116
- Watching12
- Stars in 28 days+178
- CreatedOct 1, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026