A small TV displays btop, a computer resource monitoring program. The colorful indicators are showing that the CPU and memory are fully utilized.

Top view of a Libre Computer ROC-RK3328-CC single board computer. The computer is about the size of a credit card, and is connected to an HDMI cable, power supply, ethernet, and a wireless dongle for keyboard + mouse. The SBC has four 64-bit low-power cores and 4GB of DDR4 RAM.

A screenshot showing the output from the Alpaca program running on my laptop. Alpaca is a client program that allows you to chat with AI models. In this case, the local LLM is running on the Libre Computer single board computer shown earlier.

Chuffed! 😁

I needed to keep dog company while the plumber fixed a leak, so I grabbed some stuff & set it up on the dining room table. I tested small LLMs, then set it all up as a service and accessed it from my laptop.
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An extreme, high-angled closeup of a little Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and Ethernet + USB port HAT combo that's about the size of an eclair. It's running Homebridge which performs the magic that allows you to use your incompatible Wyze lights and switches in Apple's HomeKit. The weird angle and closeup were so I didn't have to show my desk, because it's pretty much disaster-ized with cables, tools, and other parts -- my creative process run amok.

I dug out Raspberry Pi boards that were going to be projects (someday) and made them into little servers for Home Assistant & HomeBridge.

You know what else I made? Endorphins.

I'm having a great time & taking a break from hearing about fascists gutting the government.

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