Kyber Cypher // node-00 // v005
Stop paying rent on hardware you already own.
This is a field log for running your own stack. Local AI, your own storage, your own network, your own signal. Everything here was built on machines sitting in a spare room, written up honestly, including the parts that broke.
Start here
What worked, what broke, what it actually cost. Not a polished tutorial, a record kept while doing it.
The Kit The hardware doing the workWhat is in the rack, what each box does, and what it is worth paying for rather than renting.
Films Five films made on one graphics cardFive short films, free to watch and download. The images, the motion and the music all came out of local models on a card in a spare room.
KyberAmp Free original music, no accountGenerated locally, mastered on the same box, handed over with no download gate and no email box to tick.
The argument
The point. Almost every tool you use now is a subscription to something you could run yourself, on hardware that is already paid for, with your files staying on your disk. That is not nostalgia and it is not paranoia, it is just arithmetic. The catch is nobody writes down what it actually takes. So that is what this site is.
The method. Nothing here is theoretical. Every log is a thing that runs in this house, and the failures stay in the writeup because the failures are the useful part. If a build cost four evenings and two wrong turns, it says so.