I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
…Even a GPU with 8GB of VRAM could run the 4-bit quantized version of this model with ease, as the full, Q8_0 GGUF came out to be 8.1GB in…
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I spent $50 on a managed switch and fixed problems my $200 router couldn't
…The marketing around these "gamer" routers is ridiculous at times, but still not quite as outlandish as the incredible discrete GPU packaging of old. But with the move to an old cottage…
The stock cooler on your Ryzen is probably good enough, and the upgrade isn't worth it
…If these kinds of workloads are common in your day-to-day workflow, fan noise from a stock cooler can become a real quality-of-life issue, making an upgrade to something…
I ditched Claude for Obsidian and a local LLM, and miss it less than I expected to
…I have multiple for different tasks, like research and brainstorming for my novel. For the knowledge base side, typing @ in chat lets me point Copilot at a specific folder, which becomes the…
Free Claude and Perplexity almost killed my ChatGPT Plus subscription
…Plus diagnosed the issue itself, blamed the encoding, and rewrote the script in plain ASCII. After that, it ran cleanly and, crucially, returned "Unknown" for the SMART attributes Windows didn't expose…
I started my home lab with a full-size PC, and now I can't imagine using anything else
…Open PCIe slots mean you can drop in a host bus adapter for more drives, a 10GbE NIC, or a GPU for hardware transcoding and the inevitable local-AI tinkering. Most of…
Steam Machine Verified just made the mini PC the most interesting gaming device of 2026
…You can plug in a mouse and keyboard, run multiple displays, install other apps or even a different operating system if you want. It keeps the usual flexibility of a desktop, but…
I started my home lab with a mini PC instead of a Raspberry Pi, and the difference was massive
…It evolved over the years, taking the form of multiple used enterprise rack servers, finally ending up as a few small business desktop PCs with low-power CPUs. But it all started…
My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it
…Later, I found out that Uptime Kuma was my issue, since I didn’t set it as an env var on the terminal. There were a few things that Claude did on…
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