Stop using your AI for a while

“Turn it off for now” means four different things in practice, and they have different consequences. Find your row first.

What you actually want	Do this
My coding tools should use the cloud again for a bit	Pause routing
I need this memory back for something else	Stop the engine
Stop my other computers using this one’s AI	Stop sharing
Take this computer off my network entirely	Disconnect
Remove Waired from this computer	Uninstall

Pause routing

Your tools go back to talking to the cloud directly, as if Waired were not installed. Nothing is uninstalled and nothing is forgotten.

waired pause

waired resume

The setting survives restarts — a paused computer is still paused tomorrow.

Confirming it took effect

waired doctor

The waired phase line reads paused rather than active — overlay routing in effect.

Paused means paused for everything

While paused, your own AI does not answer either — waired infer and any chat app pointed at the local gateway get a “not available” response. If you want your own AI to keep working and only want to stop other computers using it, that is stop sharing instead.

Stop the engine

Frees the memory the model is holding — usually several gigabytes — right now. Settings are untouched, and starting it again reloads the model.

In the Waired app

Click the Waired icon → Inference → Stop inference engine. The same item becomes Start inference engine.

In a terminal

waired inference engine stop
waired inference engine start
waired inference engine status

With the engine stopped, requests from this computer go to one of your other computers if you have one, and otherwise fail until you start it again.

Stop sharing

Your own use continues; your other computers stop being able to use this one’s AI.

In the Waired app

Click the Waired icon → Inference → Stop sharing engine to mesh.

In a terminal

waired inference share off
waired inference share on
waired inference share status

This is the right setting for a workstation you do not want interrupted, while still using your own model yourself.

Sharing publicly is a separate thing again

This controls your own other computers. Whether other Waired users may use this machine is Public share, which is off unless you turned it on.

Disconnect

Takes the computer off your private network without signing out. Your other computers stop seeing it, and it stops seeing them.

Click the Waired icon → Disconnect. The same item becomes Connect.

Not the same as Log out…

Log out… removes this computer’s identity, and signing back in enrolls it as a new device. Disconnect is one click each way and changes nothing permanent. See The Waired app.

Which one do I have on?

waired status --observability

It reports the phase (active or paused), whether the engine is loaded, and whether this computer is offering it to your others.

The Waired appAll of the above, from the icon.

UninstallWhen you want it gone rather than paused.

Run a health checkIf something stopped and you did not stop it.