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).

Gonna have to try it

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