Posts: reviews, the token market and homelab notes
Every review opens with its verdict, cost and licence. The market post comes out on the first Monday of each month.
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AI token market, November 2026
List prices per million tokens for fourteen models from five providers, side by side.
TakeawayCompare cached-input and batch rates, not only list prices.
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Ollama, llama.cpp and vLLM on one homelab GPU
Three ways to serve open-weight models from one 24 GB card, run side by side.
VerdictOllama for one person; vLLM once a team shares the GPU.
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Restic to a second box: backups I have restored from
Nightly encrypted backups to a machine in another room, and a restore to a blank disk.
VerdictWorth it. One binary, encrypted repositories, restores that work.
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Open WebUI as a chat front end for a small team
Five people, local models through Ollama and one hosted API, on self-hosted hardware.
VerdictGood on your own hardware; read the licence before you rebrand it.
The posts listed here are sample posts written to show the layout until Lance publishes his own.