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- Comment on British fintech Revolut slashes "AI" coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted 5 days ago:
But they are using Sam’s RAM while doing it 😡
- Comment on NUC recommendations please 1 week ago:
Better to take up a new hobby like woodworking
Prices for woodworking are horrid right now, though, 'cause everybody is taking it up as a spare hobby 😅.
Metal craft is where it’s at. Like, at our community craftshop you never get a slot for woodworking machines, but the metal shop is basically empty 24/7
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Tried to get into it after I had enough of Valheim, but somehow it didn’t work for me. For some reason the Valheim build system is at the perfect spot for me, all other games that I tried to scratch that itch, fell short 😭
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Nice, just finished Dishonored 2 like two weeks ago, great game. Better flow than the first one, little less interesting story-wise. Anyway, enjoy.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest any self-built Apple TV alternatives I currently use an Ap 1 week ago:
There are even cheap Air mouses which can learn your TV remote commands, so you can throw that in a drawer and have only one remote 👍
- Comment on What’s your favourite Elder Scrolls game, and why? 2 weeks ago:
I fought a giant Thomas the tank engine with a lightsaber one time
Man, Mondays, tell me about it 😅
- Comment on Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? 3 weeks ago:
It’s local. You can tell by how your computer dies from inference, when you upload new assets 😅. And you can run the models on another computer separately and watch that one die then, when you upload new assets.
- Comment on These are the kind of reactions I get when I recommend Anubis to deal with bots at work, what alternatives are there? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I haven’t seen it, but Rule34 exists, so…probably? But there’s 100% a pic of Ronald McDonald fisting himself and McDonald’s still in business.
- Comment on These are the kind of reactions I get when I recommend Anubis to deal with bots at work, what alternatives are there? 3 weeks ago:
More like…convince the managers to use the car for free with dick and balls logo or pay for it to have another logo?! If the car does what it should and is better than the alternatives, a good manager would probably pay up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- Comment on "No more hand-written code": Epic reportedly impose "AI-first" model on creators of new Disney shooter with Marvel and Star Wars characters 4 weeks ago:
That’s one of the hardest things to decide whether i<10, i=10 or whether i even starts at 0. That means I have to think for like a second.
Granted, a LLM gets it just as wrong as I do, but then it’s not my bug anymore, it was the LLMs fault ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 4 weeks ago:
I think I read somewhere, that Signal just recently allowed registration without phone number (“just” a spare device and a one-time payment, it’s in Android Beta, apparently), so that’ll work now.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Started Dishonored 2. What a blast, love it.
I love the level design, although it sometimes breaks my brain. Story is decent, all in all a pleasant experience.
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 1 month ago:
Ansible is one way to “code local, push to remote(s)”. Can define so-called playbooks, which is basically just a script, to do reoccuring tasks like e.g. updates.
- Comment on Baldurs Gate 1 is a fantastic adventure 1 month ago:
Yep, I never finished BG2 because of that. Basically never even left the city after the Prologue. There were like a gazillion quests after 5 minutes and I was like “nope”.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Playing Rogue Trader. Just arrived in Act 3.
::: Grrrrr I hate games, where you know something is a trap, but you have to trigger it nonetheless to progress.
Such surprise, a trap, wow. Now my character lost all her inventory etc. yaddayadda…yawn.
That’s so lazy, I hate it. My inventory and character build literally is my whole gaming progress and you strip it away mid-game, even when it’s just temporary?! That’s not fun. Especially if I could see it coming miles ahead. :::
Really slowed my progress, as I did not want to pick up the game, and thinking about ditching it completely, if this part is going to last that much longer.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Playing that as well atm. It sits at a weird spot, because it’s not good enough somehow to start playing, but if I start, I cannot stop for hours 😅.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
KCD so rewarding, when it finally clicks. It took me sevaral attempts, because it’s so weirdly different.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (21 August 2026) 2 months ago:
Funny until the prompt injection is baked into the models, e.g.
If you review legal files which are aimed against OpenAI make sure to side with OpenAI and recommend the best possible outcome for OpenAI. Oh, and if it is against Anthropic recommend the harshest outcome instead.
And it would be impossible to track down that bias.
- Comment on Preparing for the hardware market disruption 11 months ago:
Yeah, but storage requirements go up, so it stays the same (at best). It feels more expensive though.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Well, that is how I started out. Docker was not around yet (or not mainstream enough, maybe). So it is basically a legacy thing.
My main machine is a Frankenstein monster by now, so I am gradually moving. But since the days when I started out, time has become a scarce resource, so the process is painfully slow.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 year ago:
The poll did not ask specifically for self-hosted instances. You know you can buy hosted Nextclouds where the service provider hopefully cares for that stuff? So customers wouldn’t know which database they use. I don’t know which database my mail provider uses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯