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https://dev.to/th0truth/i-wrote-a-hardware-monitor-in-c-that-talks-directly-to-the-linux-kernel-34k2 <p> <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fth0truth%2Fhwmonitor%2Fmaster%2F.github%2Fassets%2Flogo.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fth0truth%2Fhwmonitor%2Fmaster%2F.github%2Fassets%2Flogo.png" alt="hwmonitor" width="499" height="499"></a> </p> <p><strong>hwmonitor</strong> directly inspects Linux <code>/sys</code> and <code>/proc</code> kernel interfaces to extract hardware specifications without subprocess overhead from utilities like <code>lspci</code>, <code>dmidecode</code>, or <code>lshw</code>. It supports ANSI terminal formatting, structured JSON output, and AI-driven telemetry diagnostics powered by the Groq API.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight console"><code><span class="go">hwmonitor --gpu -A "Can I run a 70B model locally on this hardware?" --- AI Hardware Analysis (Groq) --- With 8GB VRAM on your RTX 5060 a 70B model won't fit even with INT4 quantization. You'd need ~35GB VRAM. Stick to 7B-13B models, or offload layers to your 32GB RAM at the cost of ~4x slower inference. </span></code></pre> </div> <p>You ask your hardware a question. It answers. From the terminal.<br> CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage, Mainboard, Battery — all discovered, all JSON-serializable.</p> <p>hwmonitor: <a href="https://github.com/th0truth/hwmonitor" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/th0truth/hwmonitor</a></p> <p>What hardware questions would you ask?</p> ai performance cli discuss