Although the HDMI dummy plug is a fairly generic device that's quite easy to make at home, if you're good with the soldering iron. Before we get into all that, you might wonder why I'd want to use my PC in a headless setup, lacking a display. There are at least two use cases I can think of immediately. First, when I remote into a PC using a low-powered laptop, I don't need this PC to have any I/O accessible on location so long as it is powered on. However, when the GPU cannot detect a connected display or monitor, the remote client defaults to a rather low default resolution of 1024x768 pixels
An HDMI dummy plug might be the smallest cheap gadget that's actually useful…Opening apps, loading games, switching between tabs, and booting your OS all rely much more on random read and write performance. These tasks rely on small 4KB random reads and writes. Therefore…
…And I was running an old repurposed Dell laptop as my home server with no GPU. That’s when I decided to run a small local LLM, qwen2.5:1.5b , with…
…I spent under $200 to outfit my old rig with a new CPU cooler , install a new managed gigabit switch, a handful of Ethernet cables, and a couple of 2 TB drives…
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