I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn’t fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I’m running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

I moved from Synology to a Ugreen 4800 Plus running TrueNAS. It was louder than expected. I measured everything, printed a few mods, swapped the fan, and ended up with a NAS that is both quieter and cooler where it matters.

Backblaze’s ‘keep last version’ rule doesn’t delete old versions immediately. I found 21,000 extras and automated the cleanup with rclone.

Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.