A user reports running large language models on a 128GB Bosgame M5 Strix Halo mini PC purchased used for 1800€ on eBay, achieving 30 tokens per second decode with Qwen 3.8 27B and 50 tokens per second…
Debian developers began voting on 15 August on eight proposals to regulate AI-assisted contributions, with ballots closing on 28 August. The most restrictive option, proposed by Matthias Geiger and se…
A developer who chose Proxmox over VMware ESXi in 2024 reports that two years later, the decision still holds for small-scale deployments. The engineer highlights Proxmox's unified tooling for both co…
Indie developer Kevin of lorisLabs released Throttle, a local Claude cockpit for macOS that now includes remote control, offering a free menu bar meter and a Pro version with features like token optim…
A home-lab user migrated from TrueNAS to NixOS after TrueNAS's build-system changes, using an AI agent with strict no-change instructions, disko, and a VM rehearsal to safely transfer ~100 TiB of ZFS …
A developer's team encountered three critical mistakes while setting up a self-hosted Ollama homelab for DevOps assistance: silent CPU fallback due to CUDA version mismatch, an OOM crash that took dow…
A financial infrastructure engineer migrated a broker's virtualization from a proprietary hypervisor to Proxmox with zero downtime, consolidating two sites and cutting licensing costs from tens of tho…
A user describes using Umbrel as the base system for their home server, noting its ease of use via GUI but acknowledging security and customization limitations. They host services including a Monero n…
A developer built a secure AI agent for managing Proxmox virtual environments, focusing on predictable and safe operations for tasks like creating VMs and fixing storage issues. OpenAI's Bonnie Xu dis…
A developer built Proximo, an open-source Proxmox MCP + A2A server that requires user approval before executing destructive actions and maintains an audit trail. The tool, developed with assistance fr…
A developer outlines how to implement Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) in home labs using AI-native security tools like HookProbe's Neural-Kernel cognitive defense. The approach shifts from traditional '…
The article explains how to install and use open-source Cockpit modules developed by 45Drives on Linux servers, even those not purchased from the company. It focuses on the ZFS management module and t…
This article provides instructions for setting up a SPICE client on macOS to connect to Proxmox virtual machines. The process involves installing the `virt-viewer` tool via Homebrew, creating an Autom…