This $300 Kubernetes cluster has a catch.
6× HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini
~$50 each on eBay
Ubuntu + Docker + Kubernetes
On paper, that’s a ridiculous amount of homelab for $300.
But six cheap PCs also means:
6 power bricks
6 network ports
6 machines running 24/7
And those old Mini PCs usually give you just 1GbE per node.
That’s fine for Kubernetes.
Start pushing distributed storage or heavy East-West traffic through Ceph or Longhorn and the network can become the bottleneck very quickly.
Sometimes one newer PC with Proxmox makes more sense than six cheap nodes.
Still, I love builds like this.
$50 Mini PCs are probably one of the best ways to learn infrastructure without spending serious money.
this is not a joke, this is literally what happened this week, bonsai 2 on a 12gb 3060 built a whole game through hermes agent overnight, the full 5 hour build is below 🧵
Why has France, for decades, failed to create a single large tech or finance company?
No large hedge funds. No large tech companies. No meaningful AI companies.
No homegrown Google. No Facebook. Not even an Instagram or WhatsApp.
Its national LLM champion, Mistral, failed fast.
What’s going on?
Genuine question.
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if 12gb of vram is the entry point of the local ai quest, then 2x dgx spark with 256gb of unified ram or vram is the point where you don't miss the frontier anymore.
now i am running qwen 3.8 flash next fp8 on my 2x dgx spark with vision and full context, it builds insane stuff you have no idea of and it's better at frontend design than any of the humans i've met.
i know because i run this every day on my desk, run experiments and put it through things you could not imagine yet, and most of them i cannot post, so what i post is games and builds and stacks. so here is hermes agent running on telegram, working on the build i am working on to demonstrate.
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