Point It at a Local Model and Nothing Leaves? — I Read the Published Grok Build Source
Once you are running AI on your own machine, ...
Parsing Web Pages: Sending the Whole Thing to an LLM Gets Expensive — I Measured What Moving It Local Saved
When I started pulling specific facts out of ...
I Set It, So Why Is Nothing Happening? — The KV Cache Compression That Was Being Ignored
Running an LLM (a large language model, the t ...
I Thought Three Mini PCs Used This Chip — Searching Differently Found Fourteen, Including a NAS and a Laptop
7 August 2026 Someone told me there must be o ...
Buying an SSD Now That Prices Have Climbed — What Sets the Price and the Lifespan
6 August 2026 I was down to 211GB of free dis ...
The Empty Air Duster Cans Piled Up — I Switched to Electric, and Got a Battery Lifespan With It
11 August 2026 The empty air duster cans had ...
GPU Prices Went Up Again — Where Does Buying Stop Making Sense and Renting Start?
I went to look at prices, thinking it was abo ...
There Were Two Keyboards on My Desk — I Compared Seven Best-Selling KVM Switches Before Choosing
6 August 2026 There were two keyboards on my ...
I Got Rid of the eGPU Enclosure I Recommended Seven Years Ago — So Which One Would I Buy Now?
Back in 2019 I wrote a post on this blog call ...
Can You Keep MCP Entirely on Your Own Machine? I Counted 2,500 Servers | MCP Part 3
I run AI on my own machine less because it is ...