I Stopped Paying Google and Built My Own Cloud
How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup - and what the full technical stack looks like. Th…
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How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup - and what the full technical stack looks like. Th…
We’ve treated local AI deployments as experimental toys for too long. The moment a homelab becomes a dependency for work, the security posture must sh…
This is the technical, reproducible version of a fix I shipped on my own homelab. If you want the narrative version, that's on Medium. This one is the…
We used to build homelabs around Linux servers, Docker containers, and NAS drives. It was about uptime, RAID levels, and monitoring CPU temps. Now, th…
You buy a NAS for silent, always-on storage. It sits in a corner, humming quietly, doing its thing. You installed Docker on it for the same reason I d…
You buy a NAS for silent, always-on storage. It sits in a corner, humming quietly, doing its thing. Then you install Docker. Then Syncthing. Then a fe…
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in VR…
I manage a small fleet of Linux servers and got tired of the options: Ansible is great but not a dashboard. Grafana + Prometheus is powerful but heavy…
Cloud computing is brilliant. I'm not here to argue otherwise. But there's a specific use case where it consistently costs more than it should, and mo…
In Round 1 , we ran five local models and two cloud models through a single coding task. The local models held their own. In Round 2 , we added Gemma …