Linux

Downloading LLM models locally is something you do occasionally, but when you pull a massive 122B parameter model like Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4, the download hogs the entire connection and leaves the rest of the household without internet. The Hugging Face CLI (huggingface-cli or hf) doesn’t have a --limit-rate flag, so you need to find alternatives. In this post I explain two ways to limit bandwidth on Linux using Docker (my preferred method) or Wondershaper at the host level. …

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It was built to work with Docker and depending on who you talk to, they’ll either say it’s hell or a piece of cake. The truth? If you’ve struggled with infrastructure (servers, networks), logged many hours with Linux, Docker and containers, it might not be that hellish and it’ll depend on how many hours you put in. Like most of my posts, this is based on documenting my Home Lab, with hours of testing, things that stop working when you least expect it. But the good thing is you learn a ton and, if you’re a bit of a geek, you even have fun. Here’s my experience, with tricks, mistakes and everything I wish I’d known before starting. …

Proxmox VE is a powerful and easy-to-use open-source virtualization platform that enables the deployment and management of virtual machines (VMs with KVM/QEMU) and containers (CTs based on LXC). If you have little experience it might be a bit daunting, which is why I recommend this wonderful project: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts, where you’ll find hundreds of scripts to make your life easier installing CTs or VMs on top of your Proxmox. …

This post is about deflating, removing what I personally believe is unnecessary in Windows 11. In English they call it debloat or bloatware removal. In this post I explain how to do it on a fresh Windows install, but it also works on an existing one. The point is to remove apps, services and pre-installed junk that aren’t essential, consume resources and worst of all, affect performance and UX. …

Having a battery backup system (UPS) is essential for home servers hosting multiple services. But it’s not enough for the UPS to supply power for a few minutes: the critical part is that, in case of a prolonged outage, the entire system shuts down in a controlled and orderly manner. In this article I document how I deployed a solution based on NUT on Proxmox to achieve this. …

In this post I share a selection of cross-platform command-line tools that you can use interchangeably on PowerShell, CMD, WSL2, macOS and Linux. These are modern, fast and lightweight utilities that replace or greatly improve classic tools like ls, cd, find or even command history. They not only speed up everyday tasks, but also offer a more consistent user experience across systems. They don’t depend on specific shells like Bash or Zsh, and work the same whether you use PowerShell, Terminal, Alacritty, VSCode or any modern environment. As I discover new CLI utilities that fit this cross-platform, no-heavy-dependencies approach, I’ll keep adding them. …