My local LLM finally understands my house better than Google ever did
…I've been experimenting with a local LLM in my home, and while the setup is still far from polished, I'm starting to see how it understands my home better than…
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I ditched Claude Projects for a self-hosted setup that costs nothing and does more
1d agoTwo days without internet taught me why local LLMs are worth the setup
1d agoClaude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
2d agoI ran local LLMs on my phone for a month, and now my desktop setup feels like overkill
4d agoMost Proxmox setups fail the same way, and you won't know until it's too late
…A setup that starts with “I had this SSD lying around” can absolutely work for a while. It just needs an honest plan before important workloads start living there. One common mistake…
I built my own smart TV setup with a monitor and a cheap device, and it turned out better than I expected
…For instance, it would be a bit challenging to get the classic couch-based entertainment experience with such a setup. Another notable factor is that most large monitors max out at 57…
After self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
…hunting for bigger models and started changing how I talked to my existing setup. I stopped treating my local LLM like a chat partner and started treating it like a rigid backend…
Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…When something starts becoming genuinely useful, you stop caring whether the setup looks clever on paper and start caring whether it’ll still behave tomorrow. The same goes for the extra resources…
Cloudflare Mesh gave me everything Tailscale did, minus another company in my network
…already halfway through the setup process, since I was running tunnels. At that point, the experiment started to appear low-risk, and the idea stopped sounding complicated. Getting Cloudflare Mesh running without…
I monitor my PC with Home Assistant, and it's a bigger deal than I realized
…a complicated or over-engineered setup. My goal was simple: get useful data from my PC into Home Assistant without spending hours tweaking things. I started by setting up an MQTT broker…
Plugins made Claude Code feel less like a chat window and more like a command center
…They are also the jobs most likely to get ignored until something breaks and starts waving a tiny flaming flag. Claude Code plugins made those jobs easier to tackle by turning maintenance…
I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck
…The complete local AI setup has felt less like a science project and more like a reliable appliance that’s always ready to work. Related I started self-hosting LLMs and absolutely…
The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
…The setup starts in the Control Panel under the remote access settings. After signing in to a UGREEN account and enabling UGREENlink, the NAS generates a remote access link and a client…