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Local AI Home Lab Roadmap
A 30-day plan for choosing your first useful local AI setup, proving a workflow, and buying for the real bottleneck.
Best Local AI Setup for Beginners
Compare Mac Mini, RTX 3090, and cloud AI before buying your first serious setup.
Is a Used RTX 3090 Still Worth It?
24GB VRAM, ComfyUI fit, local LLM experiments, heat, power, and used-market risk.
RTX 3090 ComfyUI Experiment Plan
A queued baseline workflow test plan with required evidence, VRAM notes, and verdict gates.
Mac Mini Local AI Setup Guide
Build a quiet local AI workstation for models, notes, transcripts, and automations.
Ollama vs LM Studio
Choose between a friendly desktop app and an automation-friendly local model runner before building workflows.
Best GPUs for ComfyUI
Understand VRAM classes, workflow limits, and why 24GB is such a practical target.
TokenByte ComfyUI Assistant
Get release access, setup notes, privacy checks, and the download path when the assistant package clears QA.
ComfyUI Starter Workflow
Build one repeatable baseline workflow before adding upscalers, LoRAs, batches, or new GPUs.
Local AI Benchmark Queue
A transparent queue for planned hardware tests, required screenshots, settings, evidence files, and verdict gates.
Local AI Automation Starter
Start with a folder watcher and local model workflow instead of overbuilding an agent.
Recommended Local AI Gear
GPU, Mac Mini, SSD, RAM, cooling, power, dock, and UPS buying categories.
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