Downtime is the friends made along the way

Got it, makes sense. You’d probably have to do some benchmarking first. Depending on how large the source catalog is.

At that price you’d be stupid not to buy it.

At least game studios will optimize for lower-end hardware

I already miss the good old days. Back when RAM was affordable.

You could tinker with microcontrollers. They’re pretty capable when it comes to building smaller iot devices. Or pick up a used mini pc and start self hosting 😉

So you’re using CPU offloading? Or the model’s Bonsai2 variation?

Why wouldn’t you trust a local model? I mean sure they are less intelligent but if you dont expose it publicly you should be good to go

I just bought a 32GB M6 Mac Mini that I’ll also use for local ai. Will probably use Qwen3.8-27B. Accessing it from outside my lan would happen via Tailscale.

DNS blockers work so why would I need your solution? I dont care if the sites try to reconnect cause the connection wont work nonetheless

Nowadays the internet is pretty much unusable without ad blockers/dns sinkholes

I vibecoded my own youtube downloader that does metadata completion via deezer’s api. Before that I was using Jellyfin + Finamp, tried Picard but it a) required downloading something onto my pc b) felt clunky and took ages to complete runs. Fixed it by using a bash script for managing metadata. Now my own platform does it.

Hardware Haven did a video about chromeboxes running linux and their idle power draw was pretty impressive (being x86 they were sitting at 2-3w i believe)

is mining worth it for you?

Mine draws around 15-20 watts. I’m mostly using low-power hardware: a Rock 5b as my main server, a 2tb nvme ssd, a 2tb hdd and a Glinet travel router (fine since i live in an apartment).

yes I have no idea how i messed that link up mightve pasted the wrong thing

just cause I’m trying to move from Reddit to lemmy doesn’t mean I’m a bot

Fine to me as long as this doesnt impact Vaultwarden