OpenCode setup with Local models

Notes on this, will publish more as I go: opencode.json { “$schema”: “https://opencode.ai/config.json”, “provider”: { “llama.cpp”: { “npm”: “@ai-sdk/openai-compatible”, “name”: “llama.cpp (local)”, “options”: { “baseURL”: “http://localhost:8000/v1” }, “models”: { “unsloth/Qwen3.5-27B-GGUF:Q6_K”: { “name”: “unsloth/Qwen3.5-27B-GGUF:Q6_K”, “tool_call”: true, “reasoning”: true, “limit”: { “context”: 262144, “output”: 16384 }, “modalities”: { “input”: [ “text”, “image” ], “output”: [ “text” ]…

ROCm with two different GPUs? How hard can it be?

I spent a couple of days this week trying to get vllm to work with more than one GPU.. not the easy way, but two different architecture GPU’s. One gfx1100 (Radeon 7900 XTX) and one gfx908 (Radeon Instinct mi100) – that’s one RDNA3 and one CDNA GPU. Yeah, I’m pushing water uphill here. So now,…

Cooling the mi100 in a desktop case

I’ve had this AMD Instinct mi100 sitting around for waay too long unused.. I tried a couple of different cooling options a while ago, but neither worked satisfactorily, and so it went back on the shelf pending a bit more free time. Of course, “free time” is a myth, I should be more honest and…

Fedora setup as Xen host

History I’ve been running Xen since something like 2008, originally on an AMD Athlon X2 dual-core, when Paravirtual installs were the only option as hardware virtualisation wasn’t a thing yet.  Obviously I’m bloody-minded 🙂  These days, virtual machines are much easier to do, but I still like to push boundaries, and for the last 3…

Flashing LSI 2208 with IT firmware to use as an HBA

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Setting up a Used Tyan S7012

Used Tyan S7012 How-To Per the title, I bought a used Tyan S7012GM4NR motherboard as the start of my new home server build. They’re super cheap on Ebay, and can be had for less than $US80! And here it is in all its glory: Basic specs are: So I plugged it in, and the first…

iPod 5th gen SSD upgrade

First off, thanks to reader “Goats” for poking me.. I needed a kick up the arse to get back to this blog thing. Background In August of last year I mentioned in passing that I fitted a solid state drive to an old 2006 iPod Video (aka 5th generation).  So I guess the first question…

Installing Mythtv 0.27 on Fedora 20 with Mate desktop

Warning! This is a publish of a draft post I found from September 2014 (11 years ago!).. its waaay out of date, but I’ve lately been contemplating trying to get Mythbackend up and running, so tidied it up and will hit publish. If I can’t publish it in the past, it’ll show up in 2026..…