Observed arrival · 2026-10-23
Vacancyd lends your workstation’s spare compute
An open-source tool lets homelab services borrow a workstation’s spare capacity for local AI workloads without turning the workstation into a cluster node.
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- Homelab owners running local AI workloads
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- Unknown or stale required resource readings block new work; the page also cautions that unload acknowledgement does not prove computation stopped.
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On Windows, a session agent reports desktop presence; on Linux, the default presence check comes from systemd-logind. Owners can set different presence rules for resource-scoped routes, including allowing a dedicated second GPU to lend while they are at the keyboard. The console is described as showing what is lending or withholding and why, while Prometheus metrics provide availability data for other tools.
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