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Budget-first AI picks for Egyptian developers and freelancers — real EGP costs, free tiers, and local models that run on modest hardware.

Egypt has one of the largest developer talent pools in the Arab world and some of the tightest budgets. This edition prioritises free tiers, student plans, and locally-run open models that work on 8–16 GB machines, plus the payment routes Egyptian freelancers actually use to subscribe.

We publish the real monthly cost in EGP and always list a free or self-hosted alternative for every paid tool.

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Ollama Answers Get Cut Off Mid-Sentence: num_ctx vs num_predict Explained — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama Answers Get Cut Off Mid-Sentence: num_ctx vs num_predict Explained

Truncated replies and models that "forget" the start of a long document come from two different settings. Here is how I tell them apart and the values I use.

August 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Ollama Error "model requires more system memory": How I Fixed It in 10 Minutes — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama Error "model requires more system memory": How I Fixed It in 10 Minutes

Ollama refuses to load a model and says it needs more system memory than you have. Here is exactly what the number means and the four fixes that worked on my 32 GB / RTX 3060 box.

August 1, 2026 · 6 min read
DeepSeek-R1 Repeats Itself or Outputs Gibberish: The 4 Settings That Fixed It — AI article on Tidqom
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DeepSeek-R1 Repeats Itself or Outputs Gibberish: The 4 Settings That Fixed It

Endless loops, repeated sentences or mojibake from DeepSeek-R1 are almost always sampling or quantization — not a broken model. The exact parameters I now use.

August 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Ollama Filled My Disk: How I Moved the Models Directory Safely — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama Filled My Disk: How I Moved the Models Directory Safely

Ollama stores every model on the system drive by default. The exact steps I used to move ~/.ollama/models to a second drive on Linux, Windows and macOS without re-downloading.

August 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Ollama Not Using My NVIDIA GPU in WSL2: The Fix That Finally Worked — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama Not Using My NVIDIA GPU in WSL2: The Fix That Finally Worked

Ollama says "no compatible GPUs were discovered" inside WSL2 even though nvidia-smi works. Here is the exact driver, toolkit and verification sequence that fixed it on my RTX 3060.

August 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Ollama Pull Fails with "max retries exceeded" or EOF: How I Get Downloads to Finish — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama Pull Fails with "max retries exceeded" or EOF: How I Get Downloads to Finish

Model downloads that stall at 97% or die with EOF. The five things that fixed it for me: resume behaviour, MTU, DNS, proxy variables and a corrupted blob cache.

August 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Ollama "connection refused on 127.0.0.1:11434": The 5 Causes I Have Actually Hit — AI article on Tidqom
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Ollama "connection refused on 127.0.0.1:11434": The 5 Causes I Have Actually Hit

Your client cannot reach Ollama on port 11434. Here are the five real causes — service not running, wrong host binding, WSL networking, port conflict, and Docker — with the command that fixes each.

August 1, 2026 · 6 min read
DeepSeek-R1 Shows Its <think> Tags in the Output — Here Is How I Strip Them — AI article on Tidqom
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DeepSeek-R1 Shows Its <think> Tags in the Output — Here Is How I Strip Them

DeepSeek-R1 prints its whole reasoning chain before the answer. Three ways I remove it: prompt-level, API-level parsing, and a small wrapper I use in every script.

August 1, 2026 · 5 min read
أخطاء Ollama الشائعة وحلولها (من واقع 6 أشهر استخدام يومي) — AI article on Tidqom
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أخطاء Ollama الشائعة وحلولها (من واقع 6 أشهر استخدام يومي)

تسعة أخطاء تكررت معي أكثر من غيرها، ومعها الحل الذي نجح فعلاً — من نقص الذاكرة إلى مخرجات JSON غير الصالحة.

July 30, 2026 · 6 min read
كيف شغّلت نموذج ذكاء اصطناعي على لابتوب بدون كرت شاشة (تجربتي الكاملة 2026) — AI article on Tidqom
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كيف شغّلت نموذج ذكاء اصطناعي على لابتوب بدون كرت شاشة (تجربتي الكاملة 2026)

معالج i5 و16 جيجا رام وبدون كرت شاشة منفصل: 9 كلمات في الثانية على نموذج 7B. الإعدادات التي غيّرت النتيجة والأخطاء التي أهدرت وقتي.

July 30, 2026 · 6 min read
How Much RAM Do You Actually Need for Local AI? I Tested 8, 16, 32 and 64GB — AI article on Tidqom
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How Much RAM Do You Actually Need for Local AI? I Tested 8, 16, 32 and 64GB

Four machines, same four tasks. 16GB is the real threshold, and the 64GB results were identical to 32GB on everything except one case.

July 30, 2026 · 7 min read
I Replaced Copilot With a Fully Offline AI Assistant in VS Code — AI article on Tidqom
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I Replaced Copilot With a Fully Offline AI Assistant in VS Code

Continue + Ollama + Qwen Coder: code completion and chat inside VS Code with no account, no API key, and no code leaving the laptop.

July 30, 2026 · 7 min read
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Egypt AI questions, answered

What is the cheapest way to use AI professionally from Egypt?

Combine a free frontier tier for hard reasoning with a locally-run open model for bulk drafting. That mix covers most freelance workloads at near-zero monthly cost.

How do Egyptian freelancers pay for AI subscriptions?

Most use USD-enabled prepaid cards or a regional payment wallet. We flag tools that accept them on each review.

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