After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…the real bottleneck in a local AI setup isn’t the GPU, it’s everything around it. Once I changed how my setup worked , the AI started becoming a part of how…
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Your home server needs Ethernet, but not for the reason you think
…For most home setups with a Wi-Fi 6 router and solid signal coverage, speed is no longer a problem. Connection instability is what actually hurts The damage happens quietly Your home…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…That has permeated smart home automation so swiftly that you can build a setup that rivals what Google pitches as its premium AI feature. That’s not a cheap shot. Google’s…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…I set Pi-hole as the DNS server on my dual-WAN gateway, so all devices connected to the network automatically use it; no manual setup was required. Together, these two handled…
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…control entire smart home setups using trigger-action rules, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that you can use the entities imported from TrueNAS to design automation chains. No, I’m…
I hooked up Claude to Obsidian without setting up MCP, and I should have done it sooner
…other setups, I’d recommend leaving alone and only pulling into Claude for context when needed. A proper Obsidian MCP server would handle this differently - the better implementations include automated wikilink management…
I added one tool to my local LLM setup, and it finally stopped making things up
…Sign in to your XDA account Local LLMs have been gaining traction these past couple of years, and I wanted to see what it's like building a small, self-contained setup…
I gave Claude Code my dotfiles, and it rewrote my whole shell
…It can help you automate things, sort out the mess on your desktop, and if you hand it your dotfiles, it can even rewrite your shell. When I gave Claude Code access…
I thought self-hosting would make software less convenient, but the opposite happened
…time to create these automations, Home Assistant allows you to do more than many other smart home apps, like Google Home. Convenience does depend on your setup, though Hosted solutions may be…
Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
…Sign in to your XDA account As a hardcore member of the FOSS faction, I’ve migrated almost all essential services from cloud platforms to a self-hosted setup, and there were…