Tag: mini-pc
All the articles with the tag "mini-pc".
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Kitten-TTS 2 vs Piper on a CPU: local Home Assistant voice
I benchmarked Kitten-TTS 2, Kitten-TTS 0.8 and Piper on CPU at 1 to 28 threads, then wired Kitten into Home Assistant over Wyoming. Real timings.
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Raspberry Pi 5 vs N100 mini PC in 2026: the real kit cost
Raspberry Pi 5 prices rose four times in ten months. A full Pi 5 homelab kit now costs as much as a 16GB N100 mini PC. Prices, power and Jellyfin compared.
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PHP2Shell and Plex2Shell: lock down your homelab in 2026
Plex2Shell and PHP2Shell hit home servers in one week. What 11 Docker images really ship, which ports to close, and how to go VPN-only.
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My mini PC costs $3 a month. The VPS math for 2026
Two months of smart-plug data from my home mini PC: 22 kWh and CA$3.08 in August, priced against DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Oracle's free tier in 2026.
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Mac mini alternatives for local LLMs: M6, M5 and Strix Halo
Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio versus 128GB Strix Halo mini PCs for local LLMs, from a 256GB M3 Ultra owner. Bandwidth, price, measured t/s.
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Jellyfin 12 on a mini PC: the spy-free TV setup for 2026
LG TVs got caught logging audio and scanning your LAN. How I run Jellyfin 12 on a $280 N150 mini PC as an offline-TV media box, with real upgrade numbers.
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Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
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How to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally (Mac, Linux, Windows)
How to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on Mac, Linux, or Windows: hardware that fits 167GB, llama.cpp setup, and realistic speed expectations.
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RomM 5: self-host your retro game library on a mini PC
RomM 5 turns a mini PC into a self-hosted retro game library with browser play and save sync. Setup guide plus the hardware tiers that make sense.
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Best Frigate NVR hardware in 2026 (post-Coral edition)
Coral is unsupported and cloud cameras keep leaking data. The Frigate NVR hardware I'd buy in 2026 - N100 mini PC, Pi 5 with Hailo, PoE cameras.