Observations from video going viral about AI/LLM-related tech: - Many people don't understand that 'AI' and 'NPU' chips that can barely run tiny models can't accelerate giant 10+ GB LLM models - Many people have no clue you can run AI models offline / self-hosted

OpenAI's nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 ;)

The irony that 'Open'AI is so closed that a Chinese open model can come in and deflate the OpenAI bubble in less than a week...

If anyone else has a newer model Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD, can you check if it has a Biwin storage controller? (Originals had Samsung) — want to verify if TRIM works or not...

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Official Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD drive (Biwin) ignores TRIM commands · Issue #6627 · raspberrypi/linux

Describe the bug The official 512Gb Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD drive ignores TRIM commands, despite claiming to support them. Other NVMe SSD drives do n...

Always good to be humbled by the capabilities of an individual less than half your age... mad respect for this completely custom-built arm laptop by Byran Huang:

Creation | anyon_e

Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands.

Intel Outside™

Imagine if HP said you had to install an HP app on your computer, and every time you wanted to print a document in Microsoft Word, you had to have Word transfer that document to the HP app, then the HP app would be the only thing allowed to actually send the print job off.

Everyone in #Homelab knows about the DIY 19" IKEA LACK rack... but did you know IKEA makes the perfect mini rack furniture, too? Presenting stirkage's Eket rack!

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Ikea Eket DIY 10" Rack (UK) [build showcase] · Issue #22 · geerlingguy/mini-rack

Description The intention was to use this for the typical learning and playing about with Virtualisation, Containers etc. Main project in mind at t...

Ready for Winterfest (hamfest) this weekend. More on the mini rack (which is not just for radio/SDR) tomorrow morning ;)

People often ask me about this fancy-looking Linux monitoring tool when they see me using it in my videos—it's called 'btop' and it's available via the package manager of almost every modern Linux distro (e.g. `sudo apt install btop`) I posted a video on my 2nd channel with my 'top' 10 list of Linux (and macOS, and sometimes even Windows!) monitoring tools you can run in the console—for CPU, power, network, disk, etc.: