In short:

• I got tired of only having 32 GB memory and not being able to upgrade more. I was in the roof often enoguh, and whenever I wanted to implement or play with something new, something had to go or be tuned down. Of course, some tuning never hurts, but it was getting increasinly difficult
• I got tired of a network card with hardware that was defective by design, and the level of support was measured in how fast/reliably the driver could reset it when it crashed.
• I wanted some more headroom CPU-wise, so that Kubernetes controller quorum etc didn’t fail on timeout regularly whenever the box was under load, making kubernetes restart.

In essence, I wanted to play with fun functionality instead of battling defects and too little resources.

So, I went on a shopping hunt. And I found The Beelink GTI14 Ulta 9. I spec’ed it high, with 2*1TB m.2 SSD (I somewhat regret not going for lower (it was the max), and rather buy 2*4TB separately, but for now it’s fine…) and 96 GB memory. In short, for now I do have hardware to play with greedy stuff.

Stay tuned! I’ve been playing with locally hosted AIs since then, so new blog posts are due pretty soon!