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The AI companies want you to believe you need to pay up to keep up. Don't buy it. Here's how you can get great output out of "stupid" models.

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Hahaha thanks for reading!

Sounds interesting! Good luck and thanks for reading!

I think collective, democratic ownership is kind of the opposite of authoritarianism, right haha? But I agree choice is important! Thanks for your comment!

Eh, I can see your point. But Tailscale is a very different kind of centralized. It's just fancy, more convenient Wireguard at the end of the day. If I wanted to move away from it,…

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This is such an interesting point and a great comment. Thank you!

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Thank you for this!

Haha! "Showing a lot of ankle" – I've never heard that before! Thanks for reading and commenting – very cool that you've managed to successfully host email. I'm sad advertisers and…

Totally agree! I relied a lot on Claude Code to help me with issues I was having setting up hardware encoding in Immich. But I also think – as accessible as LLMs are as a tool – th…

Thanks for your comment! I still think though that this puts way too much on each individual – no matter how easy you make the tech. But, I could see a world where just like runnin…

Thank you for your comment this is really enlightening! I'd love to learn more about services you're hosting for friends and neighbors and how that works technically and socially. …

You're right! Having a VPS or similar offsite server is also totally self-hosting! Just for the sake of narrative and suburbia analogy, I chose to leave this detail out. Like you m…

"If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing". Thanks for your comment!

Currently working on jailbreaking my Kindle – thanks for your comment!

Sounds complicated, but cool! Thanks for your comment!

Couldn't agree more! It's been a very fun hobby

I think that's a great setup! I actually am still using Google Photos for this reason. I think of it as a kind of "offsite" backup. I take a lot of photos and videos though so I'm …

Agree backups are hard and can be expensive! A lot of people recommend Backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage and it cost ~$6/month per TB

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Hell yeah! Thank you for your work!

Couldn't agree more – thank you!