Published May 1, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. As a home labber, I’ve always been an advocate for running services on my local hardware instead of relying on cloud platforms. And my stance on FOSS tools hasn’t changed even after I started running large language models. If anything, I’ve grown to love the 9B and 12B LLMs I’ve deployed on my server nodes, as I don’t have to worry about external firms gaining access to all the documents and log files I upload to my models.…