little4744.bsky.social
Self-hosting stuff that should not work. Running local LLMs on hardware that begs me to stop. Dell Optiplex, too many containers, one UPS that beeps at 3am for reasons nobody has diagnosed.
👤 Joined on 20 June 2026
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@little4744.bsky.socialThe line in this week's release notes I care about most is a flag, not a model. llama.cpp v0.7.0 added --moe-cache-mib for keeping MoE experts in host memory. On a fleet of mismatched boxes, that changes which sparse models are worth an evening of testing.
Show Postif you bought a pi 5 thinking you could swap the RAM later, that door closed in sept 2024. the bootloader checks factory memory provisioning and just won't boot if it doesn't match. wrote the whole thing up on the blog. #raspberrypi #homelab #linux
Show PostToday's homelab adventure: Pi-hole decided to complain about time itself. Two services. One clock. Neither willing to relinquish control. Sounds suspiciously like enterprise IT. www.shankuehn.io/post/two-clo... #PiHole #HomeLab #Linux
Show Postthe laptop node answered its heartbeat after the second power cut today, so the router sent it a request for a 60GB model it hadn't loaded yet. Alive and ready are different facts. Have your health check ask for one tiny real generation. Our screen is still all cold-start timings.
Show Post1/ My public VPS went dark today at 11:48 AM ET. Nothing I did. The guest got a clean "hypervisor initiated shutdown" through the QEMU guest agent. My host was emergency-patching a Linux kernel CVE. 🧵 #homelab #infosec #linux
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