Local AI
From Homelab Chatbot to a Private AI Operations PlatformNew!!
A beginner-friendly guide to turning a local AI chatbot into a practical private AI operations platform with document search, automations, local tools, coding agents, monitoring, backups, upgrades, governance, and a realistic beginner roadmap.
Running Local AI Alongside Media Services Without Fighting Your GPUNew!!
Run Ollama, Tdarr, Plex, Jellyfin, and Frigate on the same homelab more safely by understanding NVENC, NVDEC, CUDA, VRAM, scheduling, and monitoring.
Performance Tuning Ollama and Local LLMs Without GuessworkNew!!
Make Ollama and other local LLM tools feel faster by matching the model, context length, quantization, GPU offload, and logs to the hardware you actually have.
Model Routing: Different Models for Different JobsNew!!
A noob-friendly guide to routing local AI prompts to the right model: Gemma for chat, Qwen Coder for code, Nemotron or reasoning models for planning, small models for summaries, and large models for hard tasks.
Securing a Self-Hosted AI ServerNew!!
A noob-friendly security guide for local AI homelabs: keep Ollama private, use VPN or reverse proxy access, manage accounts and API keys, protect logs, and handle private docs and code carefully.
Open WebUI Deep Dive: Users, Models, Documents, Prompts, and Safe Sharing
A noob-friendly tour of Open WebUI after installation: user accounts, model switching, documents, prompt shortcuts, admin settings, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, backups, updates, reverse proxy basics, and LAN/VPN security.
Building the Right PC for Local AI
A plain-English guide to choosing the right CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM, storage, power supply, and cooling for a local AI homelab PC.
Choosing the Right Local AI Model: Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Nemotron
New to local AI? This beginner-friendly guide explains how to choose between popular open-weight model families like Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Nemotron for your homelab.