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Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World In places with unreliable networks and no data-center infrastructure, smaller is better

? Jitsi meeting 9 Jul 2026, 7:30pm - Creating the HLB podcast

Brisbane Homelab: The Podcast!

06.07.2026: A Brief Topic Digest of https://discourse.homelabbrisbane.com.au

Designing an Electronic Mousetrap: Part One

OpenRouter and OpenCode for Images, Audio and Video

Now everyone can take advantage of AI, how do we protect our computers?

How to use Opencode (or any AI 'Agent')

DRAM prices up 400 percent in a year!

Meeting 25 June - Carindale Library

Petrol Management in Home Assistant

Techmans AI setup in June 2026

My Codeburn for today

Notable Opensource LLM's

Hugging Face – The AI Centre

Homelab - Soup to Nuts

Promising Agent for Local Models

A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

Smart Home Dashboard

China launches its first underwater data center powered by ocean wind energy

AI on-line costs including fees?

How to build a project with AI?

IDE for Agentic Agents

Beyond Vibe Coding

Why Fossil DCVS is so great; a podcast!

AI Enables My First YouTube Podcast!

LTO Tape Drives

Techman's Latest Transformative Tech: V2

Techman's Latest Transformative Tech

Ain't no sunshine

Personal Finance apps

So many AIs. Such little time

Home Assistant Kiosk

Im glad I finally registered

We finally cross the Rubicon: It took the Chinese Deepseek V4 Pro on Huawei Ascend chips to do it!

BYD in Home Assistant

Ollaman Qwen 3.6 and OpenCode

2026's Local AI Models / Gemma 4

USB-C Logitech Bolt

Sungrow systems control

New Jitsi server

Upcoming Presentations

Cool Remote Control

Sway with StreamDeck

25 March 2026, 6.30 pm, Chermside Library

Meeting 25 March - second topic?

Linux Remote Desktop

Signal Detection Theory

Online meeting 7.30 pm 5 March 2026

Sway Presentation

Open-ended offer: meeting Space in the CBD

Audio Bookshelf

Note taking / web clipping

VPSes. VPii. VPS. What's the plural for VPS, anyway?

Recycling, e-waste, repair, etc. resources and discussion

How to get an AI to check your schematic

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

I've been supporting AI bigtime, 1.75 million tokens since last August!

Are you still using old AI models released yesterday?

Discord ID Issue

Proxmox backup server (PBS) on the QNAP TS-473

3 February 2026 Online Catch Up

Crucial DDR5 5600 48Gbx2 RAM for sale

Temperature and Humidity Sensors

Lighter and Faster

I made a MIT licensed Mecrisp-Stellaris Language Server (for Forth language autocomplete)

GitOps Followup

Yet Another useful AI Interface, "Fabric"

Organising Photos and Videos

Agenda - 22 January 2026 - ?gitops / CSS / Q&A ?ipv6

Configuring sway

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

Home Assistant Hardware Survey

Nostalgia Isn't what it's Cracked Up To Be!

Flight risk - ADS-B in Australia

Creating ipv6 addresses

NixOS crashed and burned, I'm back using FreeBSD again

IPv6 talk on Tuesday

IPv6-only at home + NAT64 and DNS64

Life After Death

Git is a BAD choice for a package manager .... someone else agrees with me!

Server resources / jitsi / fail2ban

Home Assistant Assistance

Agenda - 27 November - Chermside

Solar Solution and Home Assistant

Managing managed switches

Ntfy - Push Notifications

Large Language Model Agents

December Meetups

HLB future talks - ? gitops at face to face

Links in emails from Discourse

After many years, my FURS project is finally released :)

In Person Meetups: October and November

Home networking

AI Bird Watching?

Photo Management

I'm taking note

Grist at HLB online

OpenWRT - getting started

Online 14 October 7.00 pm - ?topics - OPNsense / Proxmox Mail Server

Postpone online meeting 7 October 2025?

HLB - Documentation / Website Backup

${Next Meeting}

Docker or podman?

Time to get serious about my router

What's next after pi-hole - NextDNS

Pi-hole - Container vs hardware / DHCP server / Ads block lists

Homelabbing below 1Mbps?

Homelabbing above 1Gbit

25 September 2025 Meeting - Carindale Library

Carindale 25 Sept

Homelab Certificate Management for Docker and Kubernetes

Local SEQ Events

Homelab PXE Booting

Nix-shell, Two Practical Examples - Techman

Hypervision - Xen vs Hyper-V vs KVM

Compose Yourself - Usefull Self Hosted Software

Too good to throw out; too tricky to fix?

General Rant about Frustrating Problem and Eventual Distro Hop

Living the Lie (github rant)

Debian & Docker on the Seagate Personal Cloud

9 September 2025 Online Catch Up

November and December Library Meetings

Dropping in to say hi!

Dockerized MacOS and Win11

I'm building a 14 CPU, 28 Thread Xeon server for under $100 AUD!

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

Backup Docker Instances

Mac Mega Thread

Homelab Brisbane File Sharing

Homelab configurations

Ultimate Note Taking - Joplin vs Obisidian vs?

HLB in person meeting - Chermside Library, 6.30 pm 21 August

Starlink announced a $8.50 AUD/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s

Tuesday night online meeting

AI pair programming in your terminal

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

An AI documentation masterclass for Humans!

AI just took a big leap forward with GOOSE

Next online meeting - 12 August

Home Assistant Voice

I'm transitioning from Sway to Hyprland

My beta stage Language Server is now out :)

The Overly Bold and the Beautiful

I love it when hitech stuff works together!

Jellyfin for Breakfast

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

So many games on NixOS, so little time to play them all

Microcontroller Discovery Workshops @Moorabbin

About the Only Fans category

N8n - Workflow Automation

RE: Upgrading from initial homelab setup

Upgrading from initial homelab setup

Cryptpad at HLB

Which Programming Language is Most Popular? Qwen3:32b running on a home LLM PC

OpenPGP - the next generation of keyservers

This Developer Lost $500,000 While Coding in Cursor

Podcast manager recommendations

FOSS/Self-Hosted Productivity Software

A Fossil SCM repo for Homelabbers to collaborate!

What is NixOS ? It's a very different OS, unlike anything you've seen before!

Online meetup 8 July 2025 - Git and Fossil

So ... speaking of agenda

A Logo for Homelab Brisbane

Tvheadend (Bonus: everything is an RTL2832)

OK, so now what? LOL

Folder and File Naming in Tube Archivist

Large Language Models, but Small (aka playing with a thin client)

Cuda core - Nvidia's journey to the world's most valuable company

Administrivial matters - PP and ToS

Updates to the Web Site

Teaching Digital Solutions

Moderator / Admin @ Homelab Brisbane

My 10" Mini Rack

Home Security Camera Settings

Run Your Own Mail Server or A Long Days Journey Into Night

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

HLB Meshtastic Discussion

Draft Homelab Brisbane Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

Southeast Asia's Datacentre Boom

Tiny Windows 11

Recommendations for a low cost VPS

A new gadget! TRMNL

Meshtastic for HLB

Next meeting - 10 June 2025

An ode to OpenWrt

HLB Calendar content

Homelab Certificate Management

New landing page for HLB

Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!

Our Next Online Meetup

Resources for students / Computer equipment donations and refurbishment

Cloud providers / ?Good home for Optus router

$500[ish] AI Build Challenge

ConFabULiar - A tale of woe

Google I/O Extended - Brisbane

Meetup Monday 26

In praise of Proxmox

Organic Maps and OSM

Vibe Coding will Change the World!

Arch or NixOS or Fedora Sway Atomic

Novus Vim: Eximius Editor in Novo Munde

The Old, Old Budgeting

The New, New Shopping

Dual booting with UEFI

Regex made easy

Pangolin Mesh/Reverse Proxy/Access Control

I'm building a NixOS PC specifically for AI use, and a FreeBSD NAS

MANUS AI Solved My Pharmaceutical Problem Just In Time!

Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) Git or Fossil?

Starlink is now offering a $549 Standard Kit with a 12-Month Residential Service Plan commitment for $0. Available in select areas of Australia and to new customers only. Terms apply

Gitea for Homelab Brisbane?

Manus AI: Your Secret Weapon for Getting lowest prices on *ANYTHING* online!

Swap Meets & Socials

Censored Internet? Unrestricted AI to the Rescue!

Just Saying Hi (I'm Moving House)

Cyclone Alfred; Stories of the Cat 2 Brisbane Cyclone of 8 - 10 March 2025

The Lonely Hearts AI Club

Some examples of questions qwen2.5-coder:32b AI (running on a PC, locally) can answer

EV SUV - options?

Home Assistant Compatible Goodies

Two AI's Discuss: The Great Conspiracy on the Origins of Oil

My k3s Commands

LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant AI

Self Hosted NTP (GPS + PPS)

How to Obtain Graphics from Deepseek-r1?

Kindle Ebooks Cannot be Downloaded after February 26!

My backup NAS died 😭

Homelab Security

Running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B v/s DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B Locally

Installing Deepseek-R1:14b AI Locally

Network Monitoring Systems

Nostr up and running

Seeking Deepseek

One Boot Image to Rule Them All

Nostr Past, Present, and Future

UPS Hardware - recommendations?

HLB's 2024 TV guide

Caddy - "The Ultimate Server"

Self hosting email