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Silver mini-PC AI appliance with a honeycomb vent glowing warm yellow, light ribbons arcing out to glowing nodes.

The Long Game Self-Hosted AI

June 29, 2026

The Lemonade Appliance: A Private AI Server That Outgrew Its Hardware

A year ago, local AI meant babysitting a Python script. Now it's an appliance: a…

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AMD Instinct 8x MI300X

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October 22, 2025

From Zero to Tokens: ROCm 7.0.2 Quickstart on Cloudrift’s 8-GPU Node

We spin up an Azure ND MI300X v5 node via CloudRift.ai, keep everything apt‑managed, and…

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AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 processor with 16 cores

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September 3, 2025

Strix Halo on Ubuntu looks great

This story has a sequel: The Lemonade Appliance: A Private AI Server That Outgrew Its…

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June 17, 2023

Debian: The Secret Weapon to a Faster and More Efficient Agent Development

As we venture deeper into the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for powerful,…

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