The easy part of building a mini rack is deciding what goes inside it. You probably already know which switch, mini PC, or storage device you want. Everything after this is the hard part. How do ...
When you buy an NVIDIA DGX Spark or an ASUS Ascent GX10, it ships with DGX OS. DGX OS is NVIDIA’s managed Ubuntu image, and it is fine - if you want a full GNOME desktop on an AI box. I did not wa...
COMPUTEX 2026 was my first hardware show at this scale, and I went in expecting AI to be a major theme. That part was obvious before I even landed in Taipei. What I didn’t expect was how completely...
When I built my local AI cluster on a pair of ASUS Ascent GX10s, the hard part was not serving a model. The hard part was getting a working vLLM image with current components. NVIDIA’s official ima...
I have been covering local and self-hosted AI for a few years now - from running models privately at home to what is still running in my homelab today. But to run the larger, more capable models, y...
What started as “just set up RDP” turned into an all day rabbit hole about how Linux remote desktop actually works, why most of it doesn’t work with NVIDIA on ARM64, and what it actually takes to g...
What started as, “I just need a backup,” turned into a full rebuild. I wanted a real 3-2-1 backup system for my homelab without signing up for a giant cloud bill to cover roughly 30TB of data. Tha...
In my last homelab tour, I focused on the hardware. This time, I wanted to answer the question a lot of people asked after that video: what am I actually running on all of this infrastructure? So...
My homelab has changed again… 2026. This year turned into a full evolution: network upgrades, compute refreshes, storage testing, and a bunch of power/UPS changes that change how I run (and recove...
The sub-$400 NAS market is crowded right now. The Beelink ME Pro stood out to me because it’s small, quiet, easy to work on, and it has a really nice mix of hardware for the money: 5GbE + 2.5GbE, ...