Homelab
Proxmox Backup Server for BeginnersNew!!
A beginner-friendly Proxmox Backup Server guide explaining PBS, retention, pruning, verification, restore drills, encryption, offsite sync, and sizing.
Proxmox 9.x Upgrade Plan for Home LabsNew!!
A practical Proxmox 9.x upgrade runbook for home labs, covering backups, pve8to9 checks, repositories, Ceph caveats, rollback, and post-upgrade validation.
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.
Nemotron and Agentic Local AINew!!
A practical guide to NVIDIA Nemotron models and agentic local AI: what a homelab can run, what needs bigger GPUs, and how to keep tools bounded and logged.
Local Coding Assistants: Codex CLI, Continue, Aider, and OpenHandsNew!!
A noob-friendly guide to choosing and safely using AI coding assistants in a local homelab, including Codex CLI, Continue, Aider, OpenHands, local models, hosted models, Git safety, and task scoping.
Adding RAG: Chat with Documents Locally
A beginner-friendly guide to local document chat, embeddings, vector databases, Open WebUI knowledge bases, privacy, and common RAG mistakes.
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.
Home AI Hardware Levels: A Beginner's Guide to the PC You Need
A plain-English guide to choosing hardware for a home AI setup, from using an old PC to building a serious GPU workstation.