Posts tagged Linux

May 14, 2026·16 min read

Running Hermes Agent on 8 GB of VRAM When the Community Says 16 GB Minimum

Measured benchmarks, the KV-cache math that makes 8 GB fit, and a Windows 11 setup kit that takes an RTX 3060 Ti from blank slate to chained tool calls against a locally-hosted 9B model in one PowerShell command.

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March 8, 2026·4 min read

Setting Up a Hytale Server When the Docs Don't Exist Yet

Hytale launched with barely any server documentation. I set one up, wrote six scripts to automate it, and put together a tutorial covering both Linux and Windows.

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March 6, 2026·6 min read

I Built Linux From Scratch in a Weekend (And All I Got Was a Shell Prompt)

I spent a weekend building a Linux system from absolute zero — compiling every package by hand, one at a time. Here's what a game programmer learned about operating systems by doing the most tedious thing possible.

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