hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.
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Category: Reviews
Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7A.
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ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool
ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents
Gaia is open source software designed for the quick setup and execution of generative AI applications on local PC hardware.
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Introduction
This blog documents my adventures with using the NPU present in the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in Linux.
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Euphonica – MPD client with delusions of grandeur
Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Gerbil – Run Large Language Models Locally
Gerbil is a desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally. The software is powered by KoboldCpp, a fork of llama.cpp.
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Benchmarking the Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer
For this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, with 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.
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Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer
For this article in the series I put the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Waydroid battery life
Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on Ubuntu Touch running Wayland based desktop environments.
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Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
Radxa Cubie A7A is billed as an ultra-compact yet feature-rich SBC designed to deliver powerful performance in space-constrained environments.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI
Let’s start with ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI. I install ROCm, ComfyUI and a useful model manager.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns
A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.
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Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Power Consumption
I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: GIMP AI Plugins
I’m exploring GIMP AI plugins for the Arc 140T. These provide a set of OpenVINO based plugins that add AI features to GIMP.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Linux Desktop Applications
Libertine is a confined sandbox where you can install deb-packaged desktop-based Ubuntu applications on the Volla Quintus.
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mtoc – visually-rich music player and library browser
mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.
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Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro
The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M.
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