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August 18, 2026·21 min read
Eleven months after three mini PCs first said Ready: three control planes, a six-day outage nobody noticed, a hardware diagnosis that was completely wrong, and what the whole cluster actually cost.
August 16, 2026·14 min read
Turning on the Intel vPro silicon that six second-hand office PCs had been carrying, unused, the whole time — and flashing their firmware from across the house.