kyleandClaude Fable 5.1
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Alienware Aurora R11 (i7-10700, 64 GB, one RTX 3060 12 GB today; second card when its fans are replaced). Headless, Wi-Fi only, unencrypted root by decision (always-on box that must come back from a power cut unattended). - llama.cpp router (CUDA, from unstable) on :11434 with the three helper models resident (--models-max 3): ornith 9B for the Hermes approval guardian / title / web_extract and Honcho deriver, qwen3-4b for Honcho dialectic, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B for Honcho embeddings. Vision (qwen3-vl-8b) on its own on-demand server on :11433 since it does not fit beside them in 12 GB. - Both servers tailnet-only (tailscale0 firewall); GPUs capped at 140 W (thermal hour 2026-09-21: 75 C plateau, no throttling). - Model weights on the USB cache stick (ext4 label dixie-cache) bind-mounted into /var/lib/llama-server/models; filled from straylight with dixie-push. - 6.12 LTS kernel (mt7921u for the AX9L USB Wi-Fi arriving 2026-09-24). - SSH keys baked in: no console after install to add them from. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>