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# Linux

## [What I tried and binned, and what each one cost](https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tried-and-binned.md)

Published 2026-11-01

Three local-model options I stopped using, with what each cost and the verdict: a 25 GB model that timed out in a job, a Blackwell-only fork ruled out from its source before a 65 GiB download, and the local rung’s first night, which passed none of 11.

## [Thirty-four lines of shell to keep a local model alive](https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/keeping-a-local-model-alive.md)

Published 2026-11-01

Strata’s server belongs to its launcher, so a plain systemd unit does not work. A one-shot unit plus a small watchdog on a timer had the model answering again 32 seconds after the watchdog noticed I had killed it.

## [Half a 125-billion-parameter coding model, running on a 12 GB laptop GPU](https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/a-pruned-coding-model-on-a-12gb-gpu.md)

Published 2026-11-01

On 1 November a pruned, quantised coding model ran on my laptop’s 12 GB GPU, split across VRAM, RAM and the CPU. What it is, the speeds I can and cannot vouch for, and what the publisher’s quality numbers do and do not tell me.

## [A fourth screen on the living-room TV](https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/a-fourth-screen-on-the-living-room-tv.md)

Published 2026-10-23

Giving a Linux laptop an extra 4K screen that only exists while the TV is watching, with Sunshine and Moonlight to stream it, a virtual display driver instead of a dummy plug, and the black screens and lost layouts on the way.

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