Tag: hardware

Edit 4K (or chunky 1080p60) on a mini PC without the timeline turning into a slideshow. Kdenlive proxies plus VAAPI/NVENC for cheap homelab editing.

2026 home lab hardware picks: N100/N150 mini PCs, used rack servers, NAS options, UPS, and switches, plus the power-draw math you need to justify the build.

DRAM prices are killing the hobbyist SBC market, but there are still great options. Here's what's worth buying in 2026 for a sub-$200 homelab setup.

1-bit models store weights as -1, 0, or 1. That sounds insane until you see them run a 100B parameter model on a laptop CPU. Here's what's actually happening.

AMD finally has a fast, open source local LLM server that uses both GPU and NPU. If you've been jealous of Nvidia users, Lemonade is worth your time.

CUDA vs ROCm for AI on Linux: NVIDIA's easy path, AMD's emotional journey, and why CPU inference isn't dead yet. Real Docker setups included.

Default mount options and journald settings burn SSD write endurance. Check health with smartctl, mount noatime, move logs to tmpfs, find the real writer.

Intel 13th and 14th gen CPUs have a documented instability problem. Here's what's happening, who's affected, and what Intel is doing about it.