Paranoid~RV

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No degree. No boot-camp. No budget. Just an old 5050 SFF, a restored T3600, a couple of salvaged GPUs, a bunch of cold beer, and the refusal to believe any of this requires a permission slip.

23 containers. Full SOC. Local LLMs. Custom AI memory. Zero cloud. Built from a 40ft fifth wheel in shorts and a t-shirt.

AI is a force multiplier — not a replacement for thinking. The machine works for me. I don't work for the machine.

mpdc.dev — the articles are the resume.

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Websitehttps://mpdc.dev
Articleshttps://mpdc.dev/blog
EducationSchool of Hard-Knocks, debt-free
HQA 40ft fifth wheel, location classified
Budget$0 and a dream
Show threadParanoid~RV7h ago
@pax0707 Hey Miroslav, your 1060 is actually better than what's running here. I've got a salvaged GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB VRAM doing the heavy lifting... Stack is LiteLLM as the routing layer with three tiers: DeepSeek r1 8b for fast responses, r1 14b for anything that needs to think, and Claude Sonnet via API for the hard stuff. Open WebUI on top... For your 1060 with 6GB, the 8b runs comfortably. The 14b is tight but doable with num_gpu=20 and num_ctx=1024. Worth confirming it fits before committing. Whatever Google told you bad things about was probably the 70b models or old CUDA drivers, neither applies here... What's the use case?
Paranoid~RV1d ago
Started on Oregon Trail. Ended up with 22 containers, zero threats, and a recursive resolver.
mpdc.dev
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Show threadParanoid~RV1d ago

@Hakuso Ha! Funny you say that — I was researching mesh connectivity between the truck and trailer, went down a rabbit hole on the biggest truck you can legally drive without a CDL, and yeah... Maximum Overdrive came up in that conversation too.

Love the reference. But I'm thinking less Maximum Overdrive, more Chappie. Teach the machine. Give it rules. Give it purpose. It becomes something that protects instead of destroys.

That's the whole build.

Paranoid~RV1d ago

Two weeks in. 23 containers. $0 hardware. Built from e-waste in a 40ft fifth wheel.

Here's what's running and where it's headed.

WHAT'S LIVE:
Suricata + Zeek — dual IDS watching every packet
Wazuh — SIEM + forensics
CrowdSec — crowdsourced threat intel
AdGuard + Unbound — private DNS chain
Node-RED + MQTT — automation nervous system and sensor bus
Local LLMs on a salvaged GTX 1050 Ti
Custom AI memory system — persistent context across sessions
TTS engine — she talks back
Grafana + InfluxDB — dashboards and telemetry

WHAT'S COMING — THE RV BECOMES SENTIENT:
Every light, shade, lock, and climate system on the MQTT bus. ESPHome sensors on every surface — doors, windows, water tanks, chassis vibration, air quality. Zigbee mesh throughout. Frigate NVR with local AI object detection on cameras. Presence tracking via Bluetooth beacons — the AI knows which room you're in and adapts around you.

Power monitoring on every circuit. Weather station on the roof feeding solar predictions. Water quality sensors on the freshwater input. TPMS on every wheel. GPS geofencing so the rig starts warming up when the truck gets close.

All local. All self-hosted. All orchestrated by one AI brain that never sleeps.

BUT HERE'S THE PART THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT:

A weatherproof helipad and charging station on the roof. A coordinated drone fleet. Not one drone doing laps — multiple birds working together, redistributing tasks if one returns to charge.

Drone-to-drone mesh communication. They talk to each other. If comms drop, failsafe protocols bring them home.

Routine perimeter inspections of my own property on schedule. Spot checks triggered by IDS alerts. Aerial inspection when the network sees something unusual. Systematic grid mapping with thermal imaging. Site photogrammetry when parked somewhere new — build a local map before I even step outside.

Ground-deployed sensor packages — temp, air quality, gas detection. Instant remote monitoring posts without leaving the rig.

The IDS sees an anomaly. The AI evaluates. Drones launch under operator authority. Live feeds processed on-stack. Drones dock, charge, wait.

A 40ft fifth wheel with its own air force. Controlled by an AI that runs on a machine someone threw in the trash.

All on cellular. No fixed address. No cloud. Self-hosted everything on a machine someone threw away. Self-taught everything from scratch.

No reason. Just wanted to see if I could.

#homelab #selfhosted #infosec #drones #AI #IoT #automation #linux #RVlife

Paranoid~RV2d ago

Howdy World!

I'm sitting in a 40ft fifth wheel in shorts and a t-shirt with a cold beer, running a 23-container security stack on a machine that someone literally threw in the trash.

No degree. Never had one. No certs. Don't want them. No student debt. Never will.

Everything I built — Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, CrowdSec, local LLMs, a custom AI memory system, the whole SOC — I figured out by asking AI the right questions and not stopping until the answers made sense. Took a $0 e-waste tower and turned it into something most companies spend six figures trying to buy.

The secret isn't talent. It's stubbornness and good questions.

12 articles at mpdc.dev/blog documenting every step. Here to learn and help where I can. 🏕️

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