ET ▸ LAB 2 entries in the log machines running

the log.

The other half of the bench: LLMs running at home, hardware brought back to life, trading experiments, self-hosting and things that work at two in the morning. Not a tech blog — the lab notebook.

  1. 2026-06-12 [ai] Qwen and the mini-pc: a month tagging photos at night A local LLM on a cast-off office mini-pc writes the alt text for my archive while I sleep. One month in: better than I expected, worse than I tell people.
  2. 2026-06-11 [ai] Qwen e il mini-pc: un mese a etichettare foto di notte Un LLM locale su un mini-pc da ufficio dismesso scrive gli alt text del mio archivio mentre dormo. Bilancio dopo un mese: meglio del previsto, peggio di quanto racconto in giro.