I agree. I also think that there is nothing good in for-profit AI corporations. I can recommend the book “the empire of AI” However, I personally think self hosting and having full control of the use is a bit different.

Thanks, will also ask in the other group you mentioned. I am still having a gaming rig here with rx6900xt as well but way too big to get it wife approved into the living room and have no man cave to run it 24/7. ;) But maybe good for testing what I actually need in model size, I think it is just 1 generation before all the ai hype took off but going to try now right away.

Thank you for the detailed writeup. Are you aware of anything small footprint? I am thinking like dgx spark size maybe a bit bigger?

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Opnsense any option for you instead of openwrt. I run an old hp with Intel Ethernet card and connected a unify AP to it. Works well since years