The Homarr (dashboard) team delivered on their promise to decrease the app’s unusually large memory footprint after receiving public complaints a few months ago

Noticed.

Thing is, if I were going to do in house AI, I’d want to do it up right and from what I can gather, a system like that is going to cost me some jack.

I’ve got a drawer full of various models I’ve picked up here and there, mostly used that people were selling. I stumbled across a yard sale once where a guy and his son were selling a lot of computer equipment to raise money for his son to get some newer stuff for college. There was a whole box of them, maybe 10+ and I paid $100 for all of them. I use them from time to time for different projects. Good little learning boards.

But I got bad habits

Yeah, they’re my bad habits

LOL Never heard of FIDLAR.

What if I enjoy my bad habits?

(ie 2500 sq ft; or 232 sq m)

Damn, y’all livin’ lavvy.

A realistic Pi 4B-only estimate is about A$8–A$12 per year in electricity

That’s about what I calculated for my locale. Roughly $0.30–$0.85 per month, around $0.48/month at 4 W. Which is remarkable especially given what you can run on one.

People will buy intelligence from us on a meter’

We have governmental surveillance and we have surveillance capitalism. Surveillance capitalism works so well that governments are now very interested in the data they collect, which is alarming. Unfounded conspiracy theory: It’s probably one of the reasons that governments don’t seem interested in AI’s regulation. If I had the proper equipment to run AI entirely local and efficiently so that the expenditure would justify it, I would.

We have a local ‘battery’ store where you bring in your appliance with dead batteries, say a cordless drill, and they will refurbish it with a replacement battery. Sometimes the refurb process is more expensive than just outright buying a new appliance, so you have to use your judgement.

Things just seemed…simpler back then.

I do run a Searxng private instance and love it.

Usenet…boy that brings back some memories from back in the day. Surprised that it seems to still be going strong.

call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

It’s a shitty business model. Over the years I’ve found that in order to get the most out of Spectrum it is necessary to be a royal asshole and live in their phones. Here in this locale, Spectrum contracted with the local schools to be their ISP, so Spectrum became a utility just like water, power, etc. We even have a complaint form on our official county’s website to facilitate being a royal asshole when necessary.

Wonky Coffee

Never heard of them, checked it out. That’s a noble cause. I think we Americans especially, waste so much food it’s downright embarrassing. Yet we make laws that say it is prohibited to feed the homeless. That’s unconscionable imho. I strongly feel, we as a society, have a moral obligation to our fellow man to help when help is needed, no matter who they are or how they came to be in need.

I could see that and I’ll graciously accept it if it happens.

That’s about all you can do. To me, if you are a selfhoster with an equipment question, who better to ask than selfhosters who utilize the same equipment. The absence of very active Lemmy instances dictates that equipment questions will get funneled to the most active communities. I had one deleted yesterday. No worries, it all got sorted out and I did get my question answered thanks to some very patient and knowledgeable users.

Kagi Duo

I understand the concept, free search engines aren’t free, but I’m just not there yet enough to pay for a search engine. I don’t have ads on my network period, haven’t in decades. I also filter heavily through pFsense and other means. So, while I am admittedly still contributing somewhat to a major search engine, at the very least I have still retained most of my data, and search results must be selected with prudence.

the missing sock ghost

This guy I have beef with. Also the missing keys fairy.

But if it’s for spoofing

Yeah. I just thu that in there thinking that in as an example. Of course, you’re right, you’d get clinked.

I appreciate that. A lot of it has to do with my TBI and being an old fart only compounds the problem. Meh What you gonna do? Keep on truckin’.

Tailscale is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) which is different than a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

ETA: Oops. I see your question has been answered multiple times. It seems you are a beginner at selfhosting and trying to get a grip on what’s necessary to start and trying to wrap your brain around all the acronyms. There is absolutely no shame in being a beginner. Everyone in this community was a beginner at some point in their life. So, don’t be bashful about asking questions. I’ve found the folks here to be patient and helpful.