Jim

Anyone interested in seeing how I'm using / trialling AI in my homelab?

Tidied up my @Hi_MINISFORUM shelf. MS-S1 Max running qwen3.8fn, alongside my MS-01 cluster.

Given the current climate, the modular PC/homelab is a welcome development. I'm looking forward to trying this out. More to come!

I'm checking out MSI's Strix Halo local AI device to see how it compares to the competition. Should you buy it? youtu.be/0P4uQpKaADI

Angron is coming along, finally 😅 #warhammer40k he may even appear in an upcoming video

Adobe cloned by AI and made opensource. A sign of times to come... github.com/storytold

The simple satisfaction of a fully updated homelab :) K3S, Proxmox, Docker, all VMs.

Angron is coming together #warhammer40k

Large NAS owners: What are you doing when drives fail at the moment? The prices are insane for replacement drives!

Gemini 4 - out of the ashes to topping the charts (apparently) and with a 1M context window! You could essentially write a book without it losing context...

Kernel 7.4 boosting AMD iGPU performance is a big win. Apparently by 18-23%... This combined with Gorgon Halo release is going to be amazing for Local LLMs - just need to fix that pricing and availability....

Nvidia trying to gatekeep local AI and push towards their big cloud AI partners? blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...

Anyone with a strix halo running qwen3.8-flash should check this out. Over 2x prefill github.com/peonist-ai/h...

When I bought my 5090 FE at £2000 it was a stupid financial decision. However, it's now looking like a shrewd investment! What an awful time we live in for consumer electronics. The impact of this is going to be far reaching and impact the consumer for years to come.

Well, that's LG onto the boycott list. What a scumbag move and cover up job. Own up and fix it, don't lie! Question is, which other manufacturers are also doing this...

Check out IPFire - it's a free, open source, linux-based firewall. youtu.be/qjPyh2FsGeM

Currently building an open source firewall using @ipfire and @Beelinkofficial - great project, really like it

Loving the @Sabrent Voltik. Up to 100W power (240W total), no interruptions during switch and adding devices, great for a raspberry pi etc

Authentik in Kubernetes is pretty awesome 😎 youtu.be/-6zTZAKR_nk

There's something special about mini PCs, this Beelink EQi is a lot of fun. Review soon!

I checked out TerraMaster's F4-425 Pro. It's the first time I've used one their devices, I was pleasantly surprised! youtu.be/q-vbm0hOG3w

Although the AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 495 doesn't seem to be much of an uplift from the 395, the bump to 192GB RAM is very welcome! Looking forward to the first commercially available devices.

I fixed my DNS using clustering in Technitium, check it out youtu.be/62crffG6Uw8

Can you install AMD Ryzen™ AI Developer Center on any Strix Halo, or just AMD developer box? I'm assuming it's only bundled on their device.

Technitium clusters are pretty awesome. DNS syncing made easy.

Putting a Strix Halo AI chip into a NAS is something I haven't seen before. The dream AI machine? Let's take a look #minisforum youtu.be/k1pUCchcWxY

Technitium DNS is pretty awesome! Full tutorial in the works.

Time to get back to tutorials and leave reviews alone for a while. I'm conscious that many of my tutorials are out of date now. Where should I start?

I had fun testing out Asus' latest AI products courtesy of the Hailo-10H chip. See here: youtu.be/YdVTi8TPOQ8

Looking forward to InfoSec Europe next week. Plenty to discuss and hear from industry leaders. Let me know if you're attending

Proxmox 9.2 brings some awesome features. Dynamic load balancing of VMs across the cluster, improved SDN with Wireguard and BGP! Time to play... 🔥

The Nvidia AI situation is wild, how long can they sustain the illusion through investing in their own subsidiaries/"charities" and back charging? This whole thing is looking like a slow motion car crash.

The Plex Lifetime Pass is now $749.99. It's officially dead in favour of a subscription model. All hail @jellyfin.org 👑

It's great to see Passkeys having a wider adoption by many major websites. Set it up ASAP!

This was a lot of fun to make!!! Travel routers and mobile homelabs have a lot of options, but which is best!? youtu.be/9lTFn_WyeTc

What happens when you put a Strix Halo in a NAS? 💥 I don't know but I'm about to find out. An absolutely mad device from @Hi_MINISFORUM can't wait to test the N5 Max!

Bought a Steam Controller - looking forward to giving this a try. I hope the mouse functionality is good!

I've definitely caught the travel router (mobile homelab?) bug! This is a Protectli running Proxmox with a virtualised OpenWRT hooked up to a 5G modem. Having a lot of fun with this one!

Currently having a lot of fun with virtualised OpenWRT on a @protectli VP2430.

I love Audiobookshelf, here's how I deploy it: youtu.be/OisQJh7kqr8

Unifi Protect users, which are you using? Shall I do a video on it? I'm thinking of using a remote NAS.

Transcoding performance on an N150 in an unprivileged LXC is basically native (as expected). I can do ~5 4K transcodes simultaneously 👍

For those running openclaw in your homelab, what are your use cases?

My first exposure to OpenClaw connected to a self-hosted LLM (Qwen3.5). Wow, there's a lot going on here!

Building a travel router / mobile homelab (using Zimaboard 2, Proxmox and openwrt) to go up against the awesome @Ubiquiti travel router! Having a lot of fun making this one.

Being able to turn on your PC from anywhere in the world is pretty awesome! youtu.be/uH-BZQriQ4U

TrueNAS removed SMART testing in 25.10! WTF? A reminder to RTFM next time... No idea why this has been removed... Any help would be appreciated!

Wake on LAN, what's your favourite solution?

You HAVE to check this thing out! youtu.be/Zwx7tWCWDV8

Ricard is writing a book on homelabbing and asked if I could share this survey form to help him out. Over to you guys! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...