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Linux Patches Show Promising Results For Lower Latency Of Short Slice Tasks Welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech! If you’ve been running a homelab for any amount of time, you already know that the Linux kernel is the beating heart of almost everything we do. From Proxmox hypervisors to bare-metal Docker hosts, Linux is quietly shuffling resources around behind the scenes. Most of the time, we don’t even think about it—until things start to lag. ...

Self-Hosting Your First App with Docker: A Beginner’s Walkthrough Welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech! If you’ve been hanging around the homelab community, reading our blog, or watching our videos, you’ve probably heard the word “Docker” thrown around more times than you can count. You might be wondering what all the hype is about and, more importantly, how you can actually use it to run your own software. ...

Choosing Your First Local LLM Model: A Beginner’s Guide Welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech! If you’ve been following the explosion of AI over the last couple of years, you might be feeling a mix of awe and mild annoyance. On one hand, tools like ChatGPT and Claude are incredible. On the other hand, relying on the cloud means you are at the mercy of subscription fees, internet outages, and corporate privacy policies. ...

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