<ul><li>The Christmas holiday period provided an opportunity to work on hobby projects, such as setting up a home lab.</li><li>Excitement about the deepseek model, released open source, led to trying to run it locally on a not state-of-the-art Windows laptop.</li><li>Environment setup involved using an Ubuntu VM following a tutorial to run deepseek locally.</li><li>Initial impressions included slow processing but enjoyment in using the reasoning model, with plans for further homelab projects.</li></ul>

Setting up my home lab

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