Run a Local LLM on a NAS: Synology and QNAP Setup
Run Ollama in a container on a Synology or QNAP NAS: model storage, memory limits, context sizing, and reaching it from your laptop and phone.
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How to Block AI Crawlers From Your Website (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)
robots.txt asks, it does not enforce. How to block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and other AI crawlers at the network layer, and how to check the block works.
How to Set Up a Local Voice Assistant With Home Assistant
Home Assistant can run a voice assistant with nothing leaving the house: Whisper or Speech-to-Phrase for speech, Piper for replies, a local LLM for the brain.
Host an AI Discord or Telegram Bot on Your Own Server
Run a private Discord or Telegram chatbot on a local model: wiring, token handling, the intents it needs, rate limits, and a systemd unit.
How to Run Ollama in Docker So the GPU Still Works
Containerize Ollama without losing GPU acceleration: the NVIDIA toolkit setup, the AMD device flags, the volume that keeps your models, and how to check.
Anthropic: Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate on Your IoT
Anthropic's red team says small open models may be months from acting as self-replicating worms on IoT such as $55 TV boxes. What self-hosters need to know.
Serve a Local Model to Your Team (September 2026)
Auth, reverse proxy, HTTPS, concurrency and audit: how a small team shares one local model without exposing it to the public internet.
Serve a Local Model to Your Household (August 2026)
Practical patterns for letting two to six people in one home share one local model on one machine, with the right chat UI, bind address, and overlay network.
Local vs API Cost: Work Out Your Own Crossover Point
There is no single crossover figure. The cost components on each side, the arithmetic shape, and why every price in it carries a date.
Serving a Local Model to Your Household Without Exposing It
None of the mainstream inference servers ask for a password, and vLLM binds every interface by default. The safe pattern for household serving.
Best Local LLM Runners (September 2026)
Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, llama.cpp and vLLM compared: licences, engines, OpenAI-compatible APIs, multi-user serving, and which to install first.
Self-Host Your Own AI Image Generator With ComfyUI and FLUX
Stop paying Midjourney $30 a month. Set up FLUX on your own hardware with ComfyUI and generate unlimited images with zero content filters and full privacy.
How to Build a Private RAG Chatbot With Open WebUI and Ollama
Chat with your own documents locally - no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine. Step-by-step setup guide.
Stop sending your voice to the cloud: self-host speech-to-text with Whisper in under 20 minutes
A practical guide to running fully local audio transcription with whisper.cpp and faster-whisper - no API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine.
Ditch GitHub Copilot: build your own AI coding assistant with Continue, Ollama, and Qwen Coder
A step-by-step guide to running a fully local, private AI code completion setup in VS Code that costs nothing and sends zero data to the cloud.
Self-host Vane (formerly Perplexica) to replace Perplexity with a private AI search engine
After the Perplexity class-action over leaked chats to Meta and Google, here's how to run a citation-grounded AI answer engine on your own hardware with Ollama and SearXNG.
Self-Host Immich: Replace Google Photos With a Private Photo Library That Actually Respects Your Privacy
Step-by-step guide to setting up Immich, the open-source Google Photos alternative with AI face recognition and smart search — all running on your own hardware.
Self-Host AI Video Generation: Replace Runway and Sora
Cloud video generators charge by the second. Open models like Wan 2.2, LTX-2.3, and HunyuanVideo-1.5 run on a single consumer GPU. The honest 2026 setup.
Self-Host Kokoro TTS: Drop-In Replacement for ElevenLabs and OpenAI Text-to-Speech
An 82-million parameter model that runs on a CPU, sounds nearly as good as ElevenLabs, and costs nothing. Here's how to set it up.
Self-Host MolmoWeb: The Open-Source Browser Agent That Beats GPT-4o
AI2's MolmoWeb lets you automate any browser task locally. It outperforms proprietary agents and costs nothing to run.
Self-Host Tabby: Run Your Own AI Coding Assistant and Ditch GitHub Copilot
Step-by-step guide to deploying Tabby, the open-source AI coding assistant that keeps your code private and costs nothing after setup.
Mistral's Voxtral TTS: Open-Weight Voice Cloning That Challenges ElevenLabs
Mistral releases a 4B parameter text-to-speech model that clones voices from 3 seconds of audio, runs locally on 16GB GPUs, and beats ElevenLabs in human evaluations.
Local OCR Showdown: Running Your Own Text Recognition in 2026
Benchmark comparison of open-source OCR tools you can run locally. Surya, PaddleOCR, OlmOCR-2, and Tesseract tested on real documents.
Self-Host ACE-Step 1.5: Replace Suno With Free Local AI Music
Run commercial-grade AI music generation on your own hardware. ACE-Step 1.5 needs just 4GB VRAM and produces songs in under 10 seconds.