I built a local LLM server I can access from anywhere, and it uses a Raspberry Pi
…Related I ran local LLMs on a "dead" GPU, and the results surprised me My Pascal card may not be ideal for intensive workloads, but it's more than enough for light…
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Your motherboard is sabotaging your peripherals, and it's about time someone did something about it
…Your cursor occasionally skips during flick shots, and your audio is faintly popping or delaying when your GPU is under load. The culprit isn't your mouse, and it isn't your…
By the time the Steam Machine ships, it will have already lost the market it was supposed to own
…run on SteamOS — the exact issue that sank Steam Machines. Challenge Complete Your Score / 8 Thanks for playing! The semi-custom nature of the CPU and GPU doesn't mean AMD engineered…
I finally found an open-source local LLM that actually competes with cloud AI
…The thinking process bleed in LM Studio is still annoying me, but that's a runner issue, not a model issue. Overall, Gemma 4 is proving to me that open-source models…
I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding)
…the context length up to 60k on 8GB VRAM without issue. The other thing that caught me off guard was the multimodal support. Qwen 3.5 9B handles text, images, and even…
Samsung is killing off SATA SSDs, and your next storage upgrade just got a lot more expensive
…Another issue you might encounter is that most consumer motherboards only have so many PCIe lanes. Replacing three slow SATA drives with three fast NVMe drives often results in the GPU lanes…
Old laptops are the home server upgrade nobody talks about, and they beat a Pi every time
…Old doesn’t equate to powerless Laptops are capable of many things The main issue behind ignoring an old laptop is that it cannot run a shiny, new mainstream OS, and demanding…
Your old laptop is a decent entry-level Proxmox server – if you respect its limits
…This aged gaming laptop managed to run a Windows 11 dev machine without any latency or performance issues whatsoever. Sure, you might encounter some snags when attempting something as complex as GPU…
Aurora is the KDE side of Bluefin, and it might be the most polished Linux desktop right now
…Aurora skips that part and gives you all the multimedia codecs right out of the gate. Aurora also comes with CPU and GPU drivers right out of the gate, and some of…
I tried playing PC games on my phone, and the only thing that worked was a community rebuild of the most controversial app in the scene
…The mature Mesa Turnip builds everyone has used for years on older Adreno GPUs don't cover the Elite's Adreno 830 in the same reliable way just yet, so upstream Winlator…