StrawberryPigtails

My Hermes agent and OpenCode both can see the same Obsidian vault. I just started working with OpenCode and haven’t quite figured it out, however my Hermes agent has learned that everything I work on needs a file in Obsidian and that if it needs to look something up that it should look through Obsidian first. Prompts usually tell them to “look in the vault” or “write up what we’ve been doing in the vault, suitable for another agent to understand what is going on with no prior context”.

It’s not currently all that reliable, but I’ve only been working with Hermes for a few months and started playing with OpenCode a few weeks ago. I need to work a bit more on orginization, though. Last time I looked in there, I backed out quickly as it was a god awful mess.

Currently, I’m using Hermes and OpenCode mostly, backed by Ollama running a couple of different models. Usually I’m running the Gemma4 or Gwen3.5 models.

Memory management is done through Obsidian as every harness seems to have really good skills for it.

I think you’re thinking of the Llama family of llm models which are owned/made by Meta.

Ollama is an open source server software and model repository for llm models. I won’t say Meta hasn’t contributed to the project, but as far as I know they don’t own it and didn’t start it.

Not sure I understand. The VPN (Tailscale) is on the VPS.

I have several very technically challenged family members that wanted to use a couple of the services that I host. Doing it this way simplifies the setup and the tech support calls. The VPS, or rather a domain name that leads to the VPS, is how they access those services.

I have Tailscale setup on all my personal devices, so I generally just connect directly to the services.

I solved it with a cheap VPS running Caddy as a reverse proxy and a Tailscale connection back to my home server.

I think Tailscale has a service called Tailscale Serve which may work around a frequently changing ip as well. Not sure though as I haven’t looked into it much.

Currently, 2 servers and 2 3d printers, I’m running just over 200w at idle. Depending on what my printers and servers are doing at any given moment, it could go up to 2000w, total, but I haven’t seen that high a power draw since I stopped contributing to Boinc projects about a year ago. I remember finding it mildly amusing that my graphics cards had a higher power draw then my printers.

Like others said, I would avoid Bambu like the plague. It’s asking for trouble in the future.

I would also avoid Creality printers as I have had reliability issues with them in the past. I had an Ender 5 that went through mainboards like filament.

I’m currently running a pair of Flashforge Creator 5, one Pro, one not. Both have proven solid and have been running nonstop since I got them in late July.

Of the two I like the Pro a bit better due to it being enclosed. Prints have been more stable with the wide temperature shifts we have right now. Damned easy to use and while setup wasn’t quite “plug and print” it wasn’t far off. Flashforge as a company isn’t really Linux friendly (Statically, probably not an issue for your sister but worth mentioning), but the printers are solid and work with OrcaSlicer without much trouble.

Other than that, Prusa has a solid reputation (except for the INDX varients right now. It has been a rough release. ) and so does Snapmaker.

Cool, but I don’t post on Reddit anymore.

The only formal training I had was 20 years ago in high school when I took a pair of A+ and Networking certification electives. At the time I wanted to get into Systems Administration as a career, but no one was hiring when I graduated. Went into trucking instead.

20 years on though, I don’t really consider selfhosting a hobby, but rather the most cost effective way to achieve whatever I’m trying to accomplish for my family or myself. SAAS and subscriptions have kinda gotten out of hand, so I’ve “voted with my wallet” and just done them myself.

Mostly. I pay for email. That was a pain in the ass.

Do I still enjoy it, sure. But that’s has become secondary as my objectives have shifted over the years.

There are quite a few in the US. Two off the top of my head are Slant3d and PCBWay. With all of them though, you may have to do some final post processing depending on what you are printing. 3d printing services just print the item, they don’t do much beyond that.

Most of the time I use Nextcloud. If I can’t wait for the file to sync I’ll use either email or a jump drive depending on which devices I’m moving data between. I

If I remember that I can, I’ll occasionally use bluetooth to send from my phone to one of my computers.