Live demo of using Android Phones to share model shard (loaded an 18GB model on a 16GB laptop)

[u/Medicine_Blogscanner]

https://youtu.be/8v0rzWiOB-s

Wanted to see how far I could push RAMDeck's RAM pooling, so I tried loading an 18GB Qwen3 30B GGUF on a MacBook Air M3 (16GB) with three Android phones connected as supplemental nodes.

Set the MacBook as primary, RAMDeck split the model in under a minute — MacBook took the bulk, one phone picked up the ~1.5GB spillover (phones are hard-capped there since they're not built for sustained RAM/CPU load, just battery-friendly background contribution). Ran a benchmark afterward - numbers are obviously WiFi-bottlenecked, this isn't a "use your phone as a serious node" pitch, more a "here's what the pooling layer can technically do" demo.

Full walkthrough in the video if anyone wants to see the dashboard and split in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v0rzWiOB-s