Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
| 2 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Retool | 02:45 |
| 3 | 03:23 | Skipping breakfast | 02:14 |
| 4 | 05:37 | Tim snacks | 01:00 |
| 5 | 06:36 | PEE CAN or Pecan? | 02:05 |
| 6 | 08:41 | Berdoll Pecans FTW | 01:13 |
| 7 | 09:53 | Let's talk Homelab | 02:04 |
| 8 | 11:57 | How Homelab began | 01:17 |
| 9 | 13:14 | Smaller and less power is the way | 03:43 |
| 10 | 16:57 | What's motivates Tim? | 03:29 |
| 11 | 20:26 | Script it OR wing it? | 02:44 |
| 12 | 23:10 | Cameras for filming | 05:04 |
| 13 | 28:13 | Content practices and workflows | 04:16 |
| 14 | 32:30 | Changelog core beliefs | 03:43 |
| 15 | 36:12 | Homelab stuff that's resonating with Adam | 02:21 |
| 16 | 38:34 | AI Homelab | 04:51 |
| 17 | 43:25 | On-prep AI is the future | 01:45 |
| 18 | 45:12 | Sponsor: Temporal | 02:02 |
| 19 | 47:14 | Self-hosting AI | 08:33 |
| 20 | 55:47 | AI at home is the next frontier | 00:32 |
| 21 | 56:19 | GPUs on eBay | 01:42 |
| 22 | 58:02 | Local AI and Ollama are the way | 06:14 |
| 23 | 1:04:16 | Make Ollama first-class integration | 02:10 |
| 24 | 1:06:26 | AI as a Service on my LAN (AIaaS) | 01:54 |
| 25 | 1:08:20 | GPT is the first draft word calculator | 06:28 |
| 26 | 1:14:49 | AI builds from Tim | 00:31 |
| 27 | 1:15:20 | Building a creator PC | 05:14 |
| 28 | 1:20:34 | BUT Windows is user hostile | 06:35 |
| 29 | 1:27:09 | Paying the Apple tax | 02:51 |
| 30 | 1:30:00 | Why not BOTH Windows and Mac? | 01:23 |
| 31 | 1:31:25 | Sponsor: DeleteMe | 01:52 |
| 32 | 1:33:17 | Adam's creator PC build | 05:18 |
| 33 | 1:38:35 | Understanding the various GPUs | 02:44 |
| 34 | 1:41:19 | Planning for PCIe lanes | 04:09 |
| 35 | 1:45:28 | Gamers pushed the innovation | 04:07 |
| 36 | 1:49:35 | The GPU bottleneck | 02:58 |
| 37 | 1:52:33 | Tim's Linux Workstation | 04:03 |
| 38 | 1:56:35 | The hard drive conspiracy! | 02:59 |
| 39 | 1:59:35 | Should we do this more often? | 02:54 |
| 40 | 2:02:29 | Wrapping up | 00:46 |
| 41 | 2:03:16 | Closing thoughts and stuff | 01:58 |