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Ernst J Renner · Vancouver 2026 [ HOME ] [ READING ROOM ]

I welcome contact from like-minded individuals to discuss the reduction of the digital footprint or the ideas within my articles. This page serves as my signal; it indicates my availability. If I am not present, you may still leave a message, and I will respond when possible.

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PROFILE

Austrian born. Canadian by choice since the late 1980s.

A lifetime spent at the intersection of faith, music, education, and technology. Christian, musician and music teacher; founder of Little Composers and PRE PIANO.

Technical roots in Linux and Blender since 1999. Formally trained in Web Design and CAD Technology, though my career was defined by the practical evolution of the web.

Currently retired on the West Coast, focusing on the intersection of Local AI and knowledge sovereignty.

THE STACK

The equipment I have chosen to power my increasingly offline lifestyle.

Infrastructure
Dell Precision 3440 running Proxmox server with several Debian VMs (Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, OnionShare), accessed via SSH.
Inference
Mac Studio M4 Max running Ollama (gemma4:31b, gemma4:26b, gemma4:e4b, qwen3.6:27b, qwen3.6:35b).
Workstations
Zephyrus laptop running CachyOS KDE, llama.cpp, Zen, OpenCode, Blender, FreeCAD, Thunderbird, Firefox and Brave.
Genos Arranger for music production.