Local AI Is Usable

Over the last year LLMs that can run on consumer hardware have gone from mediocre to acceptable. As I have found out, even your phone can answer inane questions for you, if you wait long enough.

Glad to use PopOS

System76 responded in a great way to recent age verification laws in the US, which I veiw as a cynical attempt by megacorporations to shift legal liabilities elsewhere.

Debugging Failing Hardware

I went on a debugging adventure this afternoon when a NVME drive suddenly failed. Some of the steps here might help others debugging issues like this, or entertain you if you’ve tried to do the same as me.

Basic Web Hosting

Configuring Caddy as a static web server is unreasonably simple. GoAccess makes it trivial to get basic analytics working. Static web hosting is incredibly straightforward nowadays.

Simple Server Security

Setting up SSH, UFW, and Fail2Ban to make your (home?) server secure