A Live AI Face on One RTX 5090

A Live AI Face on One RTX 5090: 10 Free Talking Avatars Tested, and the One We Kept

Ten free talking-face engines, one photo, one drawing and one cruel sentence about a man named Bob. What each one did on our RTX 5090, what the licences say, why our lip metric picked the wrong winners, how SoulX-FlashHead Pro got fast enough to go live, and the memory leak we caught before it could eat the PC.

September 30, 2026 · 13 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Your Family's Own ChatGPT on an Old Gaming PC

Your Family's Own ChatGPT on an Old Gaming PC: Ollama, Open WebUI and the Week After Setup

A private ChatGPT for the whole house on a PC with two graphics cards from 2016. Every command, one custom model per person with their own instructions, the two house lines that fix the date and the ‘where do my questions go’ answer, the one setting that stops everyone waiting in line, and the three-day Windows default that killed ours.

September 26, 2026 · 11 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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