Techno Tim
The Mini Rack Accessories You Didn’t Know You Needed
The easy part of building a mini rack is deciding what goes inside it. You probably already know which switch, mini PC, or storage device you want. Everything after this is the hard part. How do ...
homelab, hardware
Ubuntu Server on the NVIDIA DGX Spark (Without the Desktop)
When you buy an NVIDIA DGX Spark or an ASUS Ascent GX10, it ships with DGX OS. DGX OS is NVIDIA’s managed Ubuntu image, and it is fine - if you want a full GNOME desktop on an AI box. I did not wa...
homelab, ai
I Went to COMPUTEX 2026. Here's What Actually Stood Out.
COMPUTEX 2026 was my first hardware show at this scale, and I went in expecting AI to be a major theme. That part was obvious before I even landed in Taipei. What I didn’t expect was how completely...
hardware
Running the Latest vLLM on the NVIDIA DGX Spark
When I built my local AI cluster on a pair of ASUS Ascent GX10s, the hard part was not serving a model. The hard part was getting a working vLLM image with current components. NVIDIA’s official ima...
homelab, ai
I Built a 256GB Local AI Cluster on My Desk
I have been covering local and self-hosted AI for a few years now - from running models privately at home to what is still running in my homelab today. But to run the larger, more capable models, y...
ai, homelab
GPU-Accelerated Remote Desktop on Linux from macOS - the Hard Way
What started as “just set up RDP” turned into an all day rabbit hole about how Linux remote desktop actually works, why most of it doesn’t work with NVIDIA on ARM64, and what it actually takes to g...
homelab
I Built a Real 3-2-1 Backup System with TrueNAS, Offsite Replication, and UNAS
What started as, “I just need a backup,” turned into a full rebuild. I wanted a real 3-2-1 backup system for my homelab without signing up for a giant cloud bill to cover roughly 30TB of data. Tha...
truenas, homelab
What I'm Running in My Homelab in 2026
In my last homelab tour, I focused on the hardware. This time, I wanted to answer the question a lot of people asked after that video: what am I actually running on all of this infrastructure? So...
homelab
My 2026 Homelab Tour (Rack + Servers + Network + Storage)
My homelab has changed again… 2026. This year turned into a full evolution: network upgrades, compute refreshes, storage testing, and a bunch of power/UPS changes that change how I run (and recove...
homelab
Beelink ME Pro: Tiny NAS, Stacked Hardware
The sub-$400 NAS market is crowded right now. The Beelink ME Pro stood out to me because it’s small, quiet, easy to work on, and it has a really nice mix of hardware for the money: 5GbE + 2.5GbE, ...
homelab