The nature of AI discourse has changed| lo.calho.st
It’s been a couple years since my last homelab post and many things have changed. Overview There are more VLANs now. Retained from last time, we have: One for IoT crap. One for surveilance. One for Home Assistant. One for work. One for the Steam Link and gaming VM. The new additions are: One for a media server, and One for WAN. The SSIDs haven’t changed from last time, and it’s all still Unifi gear (excluding the modem). I upgraded from a USG to a UDM-Pro (and got rid of the UNVR in the...| lo.calho.st
This is another post that I began a long time ago and never finished: it was originally dated 2024-05-05 but I think I started working on it even earlier. At the time, the GPT hype cycle was already well underway, so I finally gave in and decided to give AI a serious try. Prologue: Setting up a local chatbot I didn’t want to give OpenAI any of my money, so I set up a VM with a GPU passed through. I originally wrote “I want to be clear that the GPU was already in the box from when I did my...| lo.calho.st
A madman embarks on a quest The first line of this post was originally going to be “Last week I posted about getting my wacky new server working.” It is no longer last week, but rather last year. Yes, I started writing this in June 2024 and it is now July 2025. This server originally had two discrete GPUs for VMs to use, but I also wanted to leverage the i9’s iGPU to handle video transcoding for my media host. Even before this post was delayed by a year, I had decided that this would no...| lo.calho.st
Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer.| lo.calho.st
An ultra-low profile Chiffre: Le Oeuf| lo.calho.st
I haven’t had much time to devote to my hobbies since moving, but I’m quite proud to have finally finished a project that I’ve had in flight for the past several months. This is my latest keyboard design: a 34-key split that I call the Solanum. In some respects, it represents a return to my roots with many familiar features from the egg58: widened spacing, a Pro Micro, TRRS for wired split, and reversible PCBs. However, 34 keys is the smallest key count for any of my designs yet. I’ve...| lo.calho.st
A while back I posted about my 38-key layout, and mentioned that the 34-key form factor is quite a bit more common. As it happens, I’ve been dailying 34-key layouts for the past few months and wanted to share the layout I settled on. There are a lot of hyperoptimized layouts for 34-key boards floating around, but they are not really easy to adapt to when coming from a larger board. My layout developed pretty much organically over the past 4-5 months - the starting point was basically a 60%,...| lo.calho.st
The server has been brought to life| lo.calho.st
It's time for a new server| lo.calho.st
Expanding LVM PVs and LVs| lo.calho.st
Stick a trackball on your keyboard| lo.calho.st
Introducing the Chicklet| lo.calho.st
I designed another weird keyboard| lo.calho.st
How not to build a gaming PC| lo.calho.st