LibreQoS Internet Quality Test
a decent bufferbloat internet connection quality tester; tipped by Alexey Shipilev. I need to work on tuning mine; I'm getting a "B" ("Good under load") with a +53ms latency increase during heavy downloads.
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Heh, I love these ghetto-tech self-hosted LLM setups.
There’s a server in my basement that has no business running a modern language model. It’s a repurposed HP StoreVirtual storage box, roughly thirteen years old, two Ivy Bridge Xeons, no GPU. It was built to hold disks, not do math. As of this week it runs Google’s Gemma 4, a 26-billion-parameter open-weights mixture-of-experts model, at about five tokens per second. Reading speed.
See also https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/06/restoring-a-storevirtual/ for the process of getting the "dead" hardware into a usable state.