Author: Jordan Wang
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The Great AI Showdown: Why Ditch Google’s “Flash” for Qwen as your Local Agent
Jul 24th, 2026 Let’s be honest: I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Google’s new AI Mode. On one hand, it’s free. On the other hand, it’s a black box. I use it constantly for those “hey, how does this tech thing work?” questions that don’t involve my bank password or my pet’s…
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The Private Local AI Server Install
Completed my operational setup of a private Local AI Chat that can process audio, video, images, text file, PDFs and can even hook up with MCP servers. And my choice of AI model? I chose the Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B UD Q4_K_M MTP model finetuned by unsloth studio. The 35B-A3B Architecture is an MoE (Mixture of…
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Initial Trials of A Local AI Server Testing
Jul 2, 2026 Initial performance trials for my Local AI server setup with 2 GPUs was promising, certainly with help coming from finetuning flags in Llama.cpp (big shoutout to Georgi Gerganov, luv your work!) that allows me to split up the 35B AI model into 2 GPUs with differing (6GB and 22GB) VRAMs. Utilizing a…
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AI Guide: How to Install Llama.cpp onto your Desktop PC for Local AI
June 16th, 2026 After some weeks of research, trials and errors, I managed to successfully install Llama.cpp and have it working with my AMD GPU using vulkan instead of RoCm on Linux Mint v22.3 OS. Learnt many lessons from the experience, and happy to share that here. The next thing now would be to install…
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Vote NO to Add Age-Verification to Software!
FB Posting on Mar 24th 2026 When I read about the news of mandatory age verification laws, such as those emerging in California, Brazil, and the UK, I got all flustered and angry cuz’ that is in my very honest opinion, is certainly posing as a highly significant threat to the open-source software (FOSS) ecosystem…
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IT Audit like it’s 1995
FB Posting on Dec 22nd 2025 Way too hilarious to not share: Auditor: “Where do you store your backup tapes?” Customer: “We’re on AWS. Everything’s replicated across regions.” Auditor: “Yes, but where are the physical tapes?” Customer: “There… aren’t any. It’s the cloud.” Auditor: “So you don’t have backups?” Customer: Shares S3 versioning + AZ…
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Operation Homelab – Status
FB Posting on Aug 8th 2025 Stardate 2025.08.08 – Mission Log: Operation Homelab – Status: Mostly Operational (Don’t Tell My ISP) Alright, folks, buckle up. It’s been a wild ride, fueled by YouTube tutorials, copious amounts of orange juice / soyabean milk (I don’t do caffeine), and a frankly alarming number of trial-and-error installations. Let’s…
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The MCP Concept
FB Posting on Apr 17th 2025 Model Context Protocol (MCP): AI and LLMs have been a buzz word for the past year, nothing more…but now with this MCP, it is open-sourced and recently announced by Anthropic in late November 2024, it gained significant traction and recognition within the AI community in early 2025. This surge…
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“Building a Home Lab: Lessons learned from Experimentation”
FB Posting on Feb 15th 2025 “Building a Home Lab: Lessons Learned from Experimentation” As an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience navigating the ups and downs of technology, I’ve learned that building a home lab is a journey, not a destination. My own homelab has evolved over time, from its early days…