Install Proxmox VE 9 on an Intel N100 Mini PC
Turn a 6 W mini PC into a 24/7 homelab hypervisor: install Proxmox VE 9, switch to the no-subscription repository, pass the iGPU to a Jellyfin container and tune idle power.
Mini PC & Homelab Tutorials
Practical, tested walkthroughs with commands you can paste straight into a terminal.
Run Local LLMs with Ollama on the Radeon 780M
Use the Radeon 780M iGPU in a Ryzen 7 7840HS / 8845HS mini PC to run quantised 7B–14B models with Ollama on Linux, using ROCm and a larger UMA frame buffer.
Build a Frigate NVR on an Intel N100 with OpenVINO Detection
Turn an N100/N305 mini PC into a 24/7 NVR: run Frigate 0.18 in Docker, decode camera streams on the iGPU with VAAPI and run YOLOv9 object detection through OpenVINO on the same GPU.
Build an OPNsense 26.7 Firewall on a Dual-NIC Mini PC
Turn a two-port N100 box into a full router: write the 26.7 VGA image, install to the SSD with ZFS, assign WAN and LAN, then harden the WAN side and keep a restorable config backup.