Feb 17, 2025
built a stupid little chat interface to use the LLMs on my home PC from any other computer at home, or my phone. still haven't found much of a practical use for it, but it's fun to hack around it.
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built a stupid little chat interface to use the LLMs on my home PC from any other computer at home, or my phone. still haven't found much of a practical use for it, but it's fun to hack around it.
DNS Raspberry Pi hole
The amount of traffic on a network has always fascinated me. I know when you set up a new Windows PC on of the first things it dose is send out a message looking for anything out their. Looking to connect and discover what kind of network its on and where it can go.
This is neat and all, but it leads to a few other things. Watching my network, using Wireshark I cant but help and see all the things trying to get into my network. This is normal, but what got me was the amount trying to get out of my network.
Now I am not talking about the normal request, like when you use Youtube, or any website. I am taking about my smart TV sending messages out. My kids tablet, sending packets out when its in sleep mode. Worst of all my ISP keeps sending packets back and forth, that have nothing to do with my internet.
Inside all of these packets is nothing but information on me and my family. Our watching habits, things we like. All being sent to advertisers. Well I needed to put a stop to this.
So I did some looking around and found out about Pihole. Its a DNS server set up by a group of people who had the same problem I had. So they set up this DNS server that runs on a Raspberry Pi.
Well after some research, I had to have this and I found a very good guide to set things up.
After following along. Soon everything was set up and I was already seeing results. All those pesky packets stopped, in the GUI I can see everything that was being blocked and everything that was getting through. The only thing I wish it would do is block the adds on Youtube, but that would mean blocking all of Youtube as they send the adds through there domain.
So yes I would recommend this, if you have a raspberry pi laying around.
Building JARVIS: Some Assembly Required
The next part of my Building JARVIS series is now up!
Now that we had our network cabinet in place, I turned my attention to JARVIS’s hardware. While I want to keep this relatively budget friendly, I also want to make sure JARVIS will be robust and durable enough to be reliable 24/7 for us. If we’re going to have a locally hosted solution for our files and services, JARVIS needs to be up to the task. While I’ve been building my own PCs since the…
Time to upgrade your home network 👍 https://youtu.be/G8P7VOw1P2M
How WiFi signals propagate
MikroTik Dual WAN on RouterOS 7 — rebuilt from scratch in production. If you followed an old guide and hit silent failures, this is why: routing-mark= is broken in v7, FastTrack kills PCC, and missing dst-address-type=!local locks you out of your own router. Full config, real mistakes, SD card logging, and automatic DHCP gateway renewal. Link in bio. #mikrotik #homelab #networking #routeros
Building JARVIS: Installing Our OS
So let’s see here, last time we talked about JARVIS was way back in…. *checks notes* September of 2024. Huh. Weird. Definitely wasn’t expecting to let this go for that long, but as discussed in my post about our kitchen remodel, here we are. So where was I? Right. So this is all fairly straightforward stuff, and…
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