InFerNo

I run Gemma4 12B on my RX9070 XT. it’s not permanently on, I just turn it on when I want to use it. Access it through a browser. Does what I want out of it. Nothing “agentic”.

I print my own bullets /s

What maintenance do you mean? run OS updates and pay the vps bill. that’s true for any self hosted application. which specific maintenance are you referring to?

Perhaps Nullsoft SHOUTcast

Been running one for many years, mostly issue-free. Had to request whitelists way in the beginning, but things turned out ok.

Check out this super great guide. workaround.org/ispmail-trixie

“can’t access this thing, server must be down”

I bought rechargeable AA lithium batteries. They have a usbc slot on the positive end. Really handy.

USB through the browser is deliberately not added to Firefox

How does this help when ISP disconnect you?

What?

That’s actually exactly the reason why I didn’t upgrade. I have miniITX board with a very low TDP CPU and there’s not been anything as efficient as this one.

If you mean that faster hardware can do tasks faster: this thing has no problem running all the services I want/need, which includes some game servers.

If you are counting costs of power, also factor in the cost of new hardware as opposed to the one you have around or can be secondhand for cheap.

The missing link is networking. You can use VPNs all you want, but in the end you’re using an uplink to your ISP who can shut it down at any moment. Some countries turn off the internet when things get rowdy, so it’s already in the playbook.

Was looking into a mesh last year, but I’d be a floating island. Can’t transmit long range, this angers the people in charge, too. Not sure how to overcome this part.

Does the message become invalid if someone wrote a bit and then asked an llm to rewrite it because they are not confident in their writing? These people are ashamed to admit they do this because of the backlash they get here, but let this be one of the only good use cases of llms, and it’s what they’re good at.

For hardware? You don’t have to use top of the line hardware to host these things. My homelab if you want to call it that is nearly 10 years old in terms of hardware, but the software is up to date.