I turned an old GPU into Home Assistant's brain, and now my LLMs talk to my smart devices

As someone who has spent a long time building PCs, I’ve got a fair share of outdated hardware stacked in my garage. But it wasn’t until I went down the home lab rabbit hole that I realized most of my dinosaur PC components could be put to good use. And I’m not just talking about turning old CPU + mobo combos into Proxmox workstations, either.