Posts on Gary Danton's Blog

Running Local LLMs on a NVIDIA 1050Ti

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:44:01 +0100

“Just because you could do it, doesn’t mean you should do it.” - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

As mentioned in my recent Homelab Overview I’ve currently got a Dell Optiplex 3050 running Jellyfin sitting in my rack. This is doing a sterling job hosting my small media collection around the house, but it’s sitting idle for at least 90% of the time.

I’ve previously spent some time running Ollama when it was first launched on an old gaming PC, but always seemed to run into driver issues. Now I have a working setup with the correct NVIDIA drivers for Linux - let’s throw OLMega at one of the lowest-spec GPU’s around!

Archiving YouTube

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:43:37 +0100

“There are two types of people in the world, those that have lost data.. and those that will..”

A number of years ago I experienced the inevitable, a failed hard drive. For the most part it wasn’t too much of an issue - ISOs, some music that I could re-rip from CDs, but I did lose some older media.

I now need to download some of that for an offline copy, so I needed a very quick and dirty bash script to grab a copy to store locally.

Homelab Update - June 2026

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:24:30 +0100

I’ve been messing about over the last 6 months with my homelab, and it’s gone through several different setups, with some far more successful than others.

The main purpose of the homelab is media processing and consumption. I’d like to start to migrate away from streaming services, so I need to self-host alternatives.

As of June 2026, my homelab currently consists of the following:

Raspberry Pi 4B
Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Tiny
Dell Optiplex 3050
Synology NAS

Raspberry Pi 4B

This little gem of a computer has been running Pi-hole for years now. It’s the only device that’s always on, happily blocking ads for my whole home network.

Changing Fonts in Hugo

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:53:38 +0100

Another tweak I’ve made to the base Hugo Bear Blog theme is to swap out the default font (Verdana - i’ve never much cared for it) with some alternatives, in my case Ubuntu for headers and Lucidia Console for body text.

It’s a very quick change and just involves editing the style.html file created we editing the code-block defaults

Right at the top of the style.html file you need to edit the following:

Neater Hugo Code Blocks

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:46:51 +0100

For the most part i’m happy with the styling of the Bear Blog theme.

I’m a big fan of contraints and by picking a well featured but simply styled blog theme it means that I can focus on the content rather than constantly messing around with the look of the blog.

I do however have a gripe with the way that code blocks are presented.

By default, theres no text wrapping, so longer blocks of code spead themselves all over the page, looking very out of place and generally ruining the look of the blog.

Bear Blog Home Page Customisation

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:08:17 +0100

I want to be able to add some customision to the stadard Hugo Bear Blog home page, specifically adding in some header text and a break down of blog posts made in certain categories.

To add in this type of customisation, we need to

Adding header text to the home page

In order to add in some header text to the home page, we need to create a _index.md file in the root of the content directory, within this file you can add in the text you want, along with any approprite front matter, for example: