Woot! I have updates for nobody to read, but I’ll enjoy thinking about what to write and exercising my arthritic fingers typing it.
Update 1:
I’m happy as Larry with a new PC what I built a couple of weeks ago. I’ve gone with Intel this time after 20+ years of only using AMD CPUs, then a week later came news about Intel CPU’s being flaky under certain conditions. Never mind though, my model isn’t among the chief culprits. Compared to the mini pc I had been using it is night and day. My GPU has a paltry 2GB of vram as I am not a gamer so have never felt the urge to spend £10000 on a graphics card. I am now running AI models locally on my super new PC (mostly via Ollama installed on WSL). Even with my massive CPU and enormous RAM they run a little slow, so I may invest in a new gigantic GPU at some point. I have my eye on an RTX 3060 with whopping 12GB vram, which ought to provide superiorsome performance.
Update 2:
I have been tinkering with my little Dell home lab/server. I have setup a Cloudflare tunnel for external access to several of my apps/services with very strict zero trust policies implemented. Currently running the following Docker containers, amongst others:
FreshRSS: My RSS feed aggregator (I check it daily)
JDownloader2: To download stuff sometimes
Nextcloud: I felt it beholden upon me to install Nextcloud as it’s the thing to do (It’s your personal Google cloud)
Filebrowser: For browsing files
Duplicati: Cos backing up is(n’t) hard to do
Portainer: For Docker management
Prometheus/Grafana: I have a server monitoring setup running with pretty graphs to look at
SearXNG: My own localised and private search engine (now Google don’t need to know about my embarrassing searches)
That’s all, I can give my weary arthritic fingers a rest now.
