How to Build a Local RAG System with Open WebUI and Ollama (Without Losing a Weekend)

I spent a Saturday afternoon fighting a local RAG system with Open WebUI and Ollama that kept “forgetting” the PDFs I’d just uploaded, and the fix turned out to be something I’d never have guessed. Once you get the pieces lined up, this setup gives you a private, offline way to chat with your own … Read more

How to Self-Host a Private LLM on Raspberry Pi 5 (Without the Cloud)

How to Self-Host a Private LLM on Raspberry Pi 5

Self-hosting a private LLM on a Raspberry Pi 5 started as a curiosity for me. I had an 8GB Pi 5 sitting on my desk, mostly running Pi-hole and a few Docker containers. One afternoon I started wondering — could this small board actually run a real language model? Something I could chat with, ask … Read more