AIHomelab
LocalAI in Your Homelab: Models, Hardware and a Proxmox Install
Run a LocalAI inference service in Proxmox with the Community Scripts installer, then choose a model, secure access and verify requests, resources and recovery.
AISoftware
GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol: Which Model Should You Use?
Choose between GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol with practical task examples, copyable prompts and a fair workflow for checking quality, effort and cost.
AIHardware
How Much RAM and VRAM Do You Need for Local AI?
Calculate model weights and KV-cache memory, then plan context, concurrency and CPU or GPU placement using a verified Qwen3 example.
AISoftware
Open WebUI: Give Your Local AI a Proper Chat Interface
Give Ollama or LocalAI a browser interface with persistent chats, controlled accounts, document retrieval and a practical backup and upgrade plan.
AISoftware
Introducing GPT-6 Astra: Reasoning, Tools and Practical Uses
Meet GPT-6 Astra: its launch, reasoning and tool capabilities, practical homelab uses, example prompts, costs and the checks that make its results useful.
AISoftware
The Floodgates Are Open: Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 Release and What It Means
What Baidu’s June 2025 ERNIE 4.5 release actually includes, how model weights differ from the chatbot service, and what to check before running it locally.
SoftwareHomelab
Taming Your Digital Brain: Why Blinko Might Be Your Perfect Self-Hosted Note-Taking Companion
Have you ever walked through a store, heard a snippet of a conversation, and suddenly been struck by an idea? Then you reach home and try to figure out what the idea was again, and nothing comes up. The chance of losing that idea is fairly high if you don't write it down right away. Let's look at a self-hosted tool that solves that exact problem.
AISoftware
Introducing OpenAI Codex: Your New AI Software Engineering Agent
Explore Codex cloud and local coding workflows, project instructions and practical verification, with our original launch-day expectations clearly scoped.
AISoftware
Is xAI’s Grok a Contender Against Other AI Assistants?
Explore Grok’s search, reasoning and image tools, our original image example, and practical checks for evaluating AI answers and product claims.
AISoftware
What's the Buzz About Gemini 2.5 Pro? A Simple Explanation
Understand Gemini 2.5 Pro’s thinking, multimodal inputs and long context, with historical benchmark context, practical verification workflows and current API access limits.
SoftwareHomelab
Take Your Surveillance Footage Out Of The Cloud With Frigate
Plan a Frigate recorder with a verified camera stream, authenticated access, current recording settings, deliberate detection tuning and tested footage recovery.
SoftwareHardware
How Image Upscaling Is Giving Your Gaming Rig More Performance
Learn how DLSS, FSR and XeSS reconstruct games, check feature-specific GPU compatibility and compare quality, frame generation and latency.
SoftwareHomelab
Automate Your Home Lab with n8n
Explore n8n's homelab workflows, licensing, persistent Docker setup, credentials, webhook configuration and practical automation checks.
AISoftware
Introducing GPT-4.5: A New Era in Conversational AI (Yet Again...)
A look at GPT-4.5’s 2025 research preview, conversational strengths, factuality evaluations and historical API limits, while retaining the author’s scepticism about release hype.
AISoftware
Understanding Sonar by Perplexity AI
Understand Perplexity Sonar, its documented transition to the Agent API, and how to check citations, prompts, costs and integration behaviour.
AISoftware
Understanding Perplexity AI: A Guide for Everyone
Learn how Perplexity combines web search with AI summaries, choose a useful research mode, and verify source links, current information and privacy settings.
AISoftware
Understanding ChatGPT's "Reason" Function
Understand ChatGPT reasoning, private internal work, visible explanations and effort settings, with practical prompts and independent checks for the final answer.
AISoftware
DeepSeek Janus-Pro: Image Understanding, Generation and Local Setup
Explore Janus-Pro image understanding and generation, its research improvements and limits, licensing details, and a local-only Python demo setup.
AISoftware
DeepSeek Explained: V3, R1 and Local AI for Your Homelab
Understand DeepSeek V3 and R1, model licences, local Ollama choices, memory requirements and practical ways to verify AI answers.
AISoftware
OpenAI Sora: A Beginner’s Guide and Current API Status
Sora’s original creative possibilities, practical AI-video prompting and review advice, with the confirmed retirement of its Sora 2 models and Videos API.
SoftwareHomelab
Hoarder (Karakeep): The Self-Hosted "Bookmark Everything" App with Automatic AI Tagging
Use Karakeep, formerly Hoarder, to organise searchable bookmarks and notes. A maintained Docker workflow, optional AI boundaries, capture checks and recovery planning.
AISoftware
Understanding OpenAI o3 and o3-mini: Capabilities and Historical Context
Understand o3 and o3-mini’s releases, reasoning, inputs, unsupported fine-tuning, practical verification and the current API retirement schedule.
AISoftware
Understanding GPT-4o: A Guide for Non-Technical Users
Understand GPT-4o’s model and API capabilities, distinguish historical demonstrations from current availability, and use practical prompts with verification and data controls.
AIHardware
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+: A Leap Forward in AI on the Raspberry Pi
Compare the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 13 and 26 TOPS models, install supported Hailo software and check a camera pipeline before choosing an AI project.
AISoftware
OpenAI Swarm Explained: Agents, Handoffs and Its Successor
Understand the original OpenAI Swarm handoff pattern, its educational limits, and how the maintained Agents SDK differs.
AISoftware
Pyramid Flow Explained: AI Video, Local Setup and Model Limits
Understand Pyramid Flow’s short-video research, checkpoint licences, local hardware and offloading choices, and how to evaluate generated clips.
AIHardware
Exploring the Raspberry Pi AI Camera: A New Era of Intelligent Vision
Explore the IMX500 AI Camera, its supported setup and official detection demos, then evaluate focus, false alerts, model compatibility and useful events in your own scene.
AISoftware
Good AI Prompt Engineering: A Beginner's Guide
Learn to write clear AI prompts with context, examples and output requirements, then check sources, assumptions and results using a simple evaluation workflow.
AI
The Ethics of AI: A Complex Landscape
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised profound ethical questions. Let's look at some considerations on ethics of AI.
AISoftware
Understanding AI Chatbots: A Simple Guide
Understand how AI chatbots generate answers, how RAG and tools help, and how to check sources and configure a local chatbot responsibly.
AI
Artificial Intelligence: Your New Best Friend?
A beginner’s guide to AI, machine learning and generated content, with practical examples, common limitations, job questions and cloud-versus-local tradeoffs.
AIHardware
Raspberry Pi Gets an AI Boost: Introducing the AI Kit
Understand the original 13 TOPS Hailo-8L AI Kit, its current availability, supported Raspberry Pi software setup and realistic computer-vision project limits.