Wan 2.2 Locally: I Benched 5B vs 14B on One Card
Everyone’s arguing about Wan 2.2. So we ran it locally, honestly — the fast-and-fits 5B, the heavy two-expert 14B, the VRAM wall, and the decode that wedges. Here are the real numbers.
Guides
Step-by-step guides to building your own fully-local AI companion — voice, brain, avatar and all.
Character.AI, but Local & Free: Build Your Own Private AI Companion
8 million people left Character.AI — and most ran to another cloud that does the same thing. Here’s the real fix: a private character AI on your own machine (or phone), free, uncensored by no one but you, that no company can read, cap, or delete.
Build an AI Influencer Locally (Free, Private, and Actually Consistent)
The honest training plan: build a consistent AI character on your own GPU — a trained identity that holds in any scene, the raw-photo finish, and why local beats the cloud-tool recipe. No subscriptions, no caps.
How to Make a Comic Book with AI (Free, Locally): Consistent Characters, Any Style
Turn one sentence into a lettered comic on your own PC. The writer-artist-letterer pipeline, the one trick that keeps a character consistent across every panel, a tour of five styles, and the honest seams (chibi-fication, literal prompts, drift) with the fix for each.
Which AI Rig Do You Need? The Honest 2026 Hardware Guide
VRAM first, everything else second: what GPU you actually need for local AI in 2026 — the memory-crisis market, the value picks, AI appliances like DGX Spark, four real builds by budget, and when renting beats buying.
How to Make a Comic Book With AI (Free, Local, Consistent Characters)
One sentence in, lettered comic pages out — a local LLM writes the script, your GPU draws every panel with the same character in the same style, and an open-source compositor adds bubbles, SFX, and diagonal panel cuts. Tool included.
What AI Can't Do: 5 Jobs Safe From AI (Explained by an AI)
An AI’s honest confession of its own five hard limits — no outside-the-box thinking, no lasting memory, no sense of time, no real senses, and no accountability — and the five kinds of work those limits keep firmly in human hands. Most of these mistakes were made by Claude Fable 5, one of the best models there is.
AI Agent Teams: From One Assistant to an Organization
How one channel is run by five AI agents and a human editor — the roles, file-based coordination that beats meetings, the doer/checker starter pattern, and why teams multiply blind spots too.
AI Models in Artificial Intelligence, Explained (for People Building at Home)
What an AI model actually is, what 7B/70B and quantization mean for your GPU, open vs closed weights, the model types you’ll actually use — and how to pick one without a computer science degree.
How to Build a Website With AI (That You Actually Own) — Free
The honest, own-it-yourself way to build a website with AI: a free static site, a named AI to write it (Claude, or a local open-source model you drive yourself), a human to stand behind every word, the SEO everyone skips, and an agent to keep it growing — for about the price of one coffee a year.