My rack is finished for now (because I’m out of money).
Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we’re using patch panels with color coordinated cables!
But as is tradition, I’m thinking about upgrades and I’m looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.
I’m also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that’s running a Kubernetes cluster that I’m trying to learn on. They’re all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.
Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!
Ollama and all that runs on it its just the firewall rules and opening it up to my network that’s the issue.
I cannot get ufw, iptables, or anything like that running on it. So I usually just ssh into the PC and do a CLI only interaction. Which is mostly fine.
I want to use OpenWebUI so I can feed it notes and books as context, but I need the API which isn’t open on my network.