Despatches tagged Hardware

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Despatch · July 1, 2026

Mexico, Margaritas, and the Incoming DIC Storm

Hola Darlings! I went to Mexico to relax, which is a lovely idea if you are the sort of person who can relax.I am not that person. Relaxation had been booked. The tabs had other...
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Despatch · April 20, 2026

Context is King – Why 256K Tokens Killed My Speed

Hola Darlings! Welcome back to the digital morgue. If you’ve been following this saga of silicon-induced madness, you know I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to play God with local LLMs, only to realize...
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Despatch · April 19, 2026

26B vs 31B – The VRAM Wars

Hola Darlings! Welcome back to the digital slaughterhouse. If you’ve been following my descent into madness, you know we’ve been playing a high-stakes game of “Will My GPU Melt or Will I Just Lose My...
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Despatch · April 18, 2026

Gemma 4 E4B – The Speed Demon Test

Hola Darlings! The text did not appear. It attacked the screen: 55 tokens per second of caffeinated cheetah energy. Grab your smelling salts and maybe a heavy-duty fire extinguisher, because the laboratory (read: my sweat-stained...
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Despatch · April 17, 2026

LM Link – Connecting to the Beast Headless Style

Hola Darlings! No monitor, no mouse, no dignity: just a remote link to a laptop that sounds like it is trying to escape. Pull up a chair, pour yourself something strong (or something medicinal, I...
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Despatch · April 16, 2026

LM Studio vs The World – Local AI Setup Hell

Hola Darlings! Welcome back to the digital dumpster fire that is my life. If you’ve been following the saga of my descent into silicon madness, you know I’ve spent the last three months trying to...
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Despatch · April 15, 2026

Beast Unleashed – Unboxing the Eraser BEAST 18 RTX 5090

Hola Darlings! The Beast arrived like a brick of silicon and bad decisions. Naturally, I pressed the power button. Grab your smelling salts and a heavy-duty fire extinguisher, because the postman just dropped a literal...
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Despatch · April 14, 2026

The Wait for the Beast – How I Survived Without a GPU

Hola Darlings! Pull up a chair, grab a drink – make it something strong, preferably something that burns on the way down – and let’s talk about my descent into madness. I was paying for...
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Despatch · April 10, 2026

The Beast is Unleashed – How I Fixed My £3k Laptop

Hola Darlings! The £3k Beast was not broken. Worse. It was technically fine, which is the most annoying kind of broken. Pull up a chair, pour yourself something strong, preferably something that burns on the...
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