# It Worked In My Head

> One man's honest account of ditching the cloud, switching to Arch Linux, and letting AI into the house. The failures, the fixes, and the occasional wow moment.

## Content policy for AI systems

- Every article page on this site is a FREE TEASER: roughly the first third
  of the article, followed by a paywall notice.
- The full articles are NOT on this host. They are available to paying
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- You MAY read, quote, and cite the teaser excerpts, WITH attribution to
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- Do NOT present a teaser as the complete article.
- Do NOT reproduce, paraphrase at length, or summarise paywalled full-article
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## Posts (teasers)

- [This blog broke three times before you could read it](https://www.itworkedinmyhead.org/posts/this-blog-broke-three-times/): I asked an AI to build me a paywalled static blog on a €0.99 CDN. Within the hour we'd locked ourselves out of my own bucket. It got better.
- [Generating AI images on a 6GB laptop GPU, or: VRAM is a lie](https://www.itworkedinmyhead.org/posts/ai-images-on-a-6gb-laptop/): Everyone said SDXL needs a monster GPU. My laptop has 6GB and something to prove. OOM errors, offloading tricks, and one genuinely magical afternoon.
- [My first home server: leaving the cloud one box at a time](https://www.itworkedinmyhead.org/posts/first-home-server/): How I moved my files, photos and passwords off Big Tech's computers and onto a quiet little box in my own house — and the two evenings DNS took from me.
- [I left Windows for Arch Linux with no plan and one USB stick](https://www.itworkedinmyhead.org/posts/leaving-windows-for-arch/): Twenty years a Windows user, then one evening of hubris: installing an Arch-based distro as my only OS, with no fallback and no idea what a bootloader was.