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24 Hours Setting Up a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 Gen 10 As a Sovereign-AI Companion Box

24 Hours Setting Up a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 Gen 10 As a Sovereign-AI Companion Box

Honest minute-by-minute log of building a friend's sovereign-AI workstation from a stock Lenovo with Windows to a fully self-hosted KI-stack with custom dashboard, MCP-routed RAG, and bidirectional cross-tailnet sharing. With the mistakes.

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A May 2026 memo of mine said local 8B models cannot reliably do MCP tool-use. I retested in late May. The memo was specifically wrong about WHY. Direct OpenAI-format API calls work fine. The bridge layer was the broken part.
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We Were Wrong About Local 8B Tool-Use (2026 Reality Check)

A May 2026 memo of mine said local 8B models cannot reliably do MCP tool-use. I retested in late May. The memo was specifically wrong about WHY. Direct OpenAI-format API calls work fine. The bridge layer was the broken part.