Tony Lofreso Jr.
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Tony Lofreso Jr.
@tlofreso
OSS, BGP, SDR

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A 28 YEAR OLD AMD ENGINEER WIRED 4 FRAMEWORK DESKTOPS INTO A CLOSET RACK AND KILLED A $5,280/YEAR AI STACK FOR $36 A MONTH ethan is 28, lives in austin, works as a backend engineer and was paying $440 a month across claude code max, chatgpt pro, gemini advanced and cursor for his side projects he saw the math, ordered 4 framework desktop nodes with AMD ryzen AI max+ 395 chips, wired them into an 8U black T1 mini rack in his closet with a 5 gigabit ethernet switch each node carries 128GB of unified memory and 110GB of usable VRAM on linux, the cluster runs qwen 3.6 235B fully and smoothly with no quantization, no rate limits, no per token fees total hardware cost $6,800 once, ongoing cost $36 a month in electricity, break even at 15 months on his old subscription stack and pure savings after that for the next 5 years his home assistant dashboard tracks the power draw in real time, the rack runs cooler than his gaming PC and pulls less wattage than the dishwasher he runs every night the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes


Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely. There are (sadly) too many devices and services with obscure bugs when it's enabled, and I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole sysadmin just to keep a full IPv6 stack. I'm not sure we'll ever see full IPv6 adoption.

















