AI
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Mini PC & Server
NPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab, Here’s Why
I have totally shifted my home lab over to using mini PCs in the past couple of years. Full-blown enterprise servers, while cool, are simply not needed to self-host or do very cool things as they might have been a…
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home lab
Why You Should Be Vibe Coding in Your Home Lab Right Now!
The phrase “vibe coding” is all around us and a lot of times it is in a negative light due to some of the changes going on in the industry right now as organizations try to figure out what impact…
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home lab
10 Open-Source AI Models You Should Try In Your Home Lab (August 2025)
I am loving being able to try out so many cool new AI models in 2025. There are so many great options to choose from now. Who would have thought we would have had so many different models from different…
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AI
5 Killer AI Projects You Can Try in a Weekend
You don’t need cloud credits or racks of GPUs to experiment with powerful AI tools. Thanks to lean local models and awesome open-source tools, you can build your own AI stack in a weekend. You can do all of this…
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AI
DeepSeek R1-0528 Released: Open-Source AI Model Rivals GPT-4 and Gemini
DeepSeek has set the world buzzing again as it is gaining recognition as a powerful, open-source large language model (LLM) that challenges models from the major tech players. In their newest update to DeepSeek, deepseek r1-0528, they have signification improved…
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AI
5 AI Tools for Kubernetes that will 10X your Home Lab!
Kubernetes is the defacto standard in running containers in a way that is highly available and scalable. There are many other solutions out there, like running multiple Docker hosts, Docker Swarm, Nomad, and others, but Kubernetes is still the standard…
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Proxmox
How to Enable GPU Passthrough to LXC Containers in Proxmox
I have been playing around lately with the GPU passthrough functionality in Proxmox and looking at the best ways to run AI workloads in Proxmox. Virtual machine passthrough is a great way to run something like Ollama. However, I wanted…
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AI
Still Worth It? Running AI Workloads on a GTX 1060 in 2025
If you are wanting to get into running AI models on your local workstation or home lab server, you may assume that you need to have the latest video card or a video card that costs hundreds if not upwards…
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AI
Best Self-hosted GitHub Copilot AI Coding Alternatives
AI coding assistants are all the rage these days, from vibe coding, to helping to level the playing field for those who aren’t a developer. For those of us in the home lab, it is a great way to level-up…
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AI
5 Best LLM Models You Can Run in Docker on Low-Power Hardware
I have been super interested in running LLMs at home with the help of great open source tools freely available out there. Large Language Models (LLMs) are now not just limited to large datacenters full of GPUs. It is now…
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