Right, yes, (and I am a novice on this, so please bear with me) but it will serve to my network? I'm playing around running various models on my Macbook serving to some apps running on RPis on my network. Anything that does that better or more efficiently, I'm intriqued.

oh, i think so. you just need an HTTP server, which i think it provides

Excellent, thank you! I will give it a look! I'm working on something that will watch my photography ingest folder on my NAS and then query a vision model to get alt-text that is then written to the sidecar file on the photos.