SERIES · ORDERED READING
Practical Local AI
Running useful AI on your own hardware without pretending the trade-offs do not exist.
For: Technical practitioners with homelab or desktop hardware.
- 01
Running Local AI Without Heating the Entire House
A measurement-first look at running local language models at home: where quantization helps, what power draw actually looks like, and when the cloud still wins.
- 02
Raspberry Pi 5 as a Local LLM Server
A practical, measured look at running local language models on a Raspberry Pi 5: which model sizes and quantization levels are realistic, what power and thermal limits to expect, and when a mini-PC is the better call.