With unprecedented temps in excess of 106 F, running a couple of old lenovo desktops is nothing compared to my AC bill.

I’m running a simple COMAI instance on my desktop that recommends linux commands and does limited chat. it was easy. It spins the processor up to 50% to give a response and takes a couple of seconds depending on complexity. I run the other stuff on a dedicated server, but with nginx proxy manager, I can send the COMAI instance to a page on my domain even though it is on a different computer on my LAN.

It isn’t nearly as much fun a building a dedicated server, (or what I like to do – repurpose old junk) but the services you mentioned will run just fine on a decent desktop or laptop, especially if you aren’t doing some hungry task while they are running. -1 for Plex. +1 for Jellyfin. You can run them all on your LAN and access them around the house by the machine’s LAN IP and the services’ port number. You can do the same thing if you have tailscale on your phone or other remote computer, just use the tailscale IP and the service’s port. You can use Nginx Proxy Manager to send your services through a cloudflared tunnel to a hostname you buy, and keep access limited to just yourself and a select few (FYI I hear Cloudflared doesn’t like a lot of video streaming, so don’t give access to too many folks).

Jellyfin will run on a windows machine without screwing with docker, and will host your music too, though the UI isn’t great.

You can use a simple fileserver on windows to host other stuff like pics.

Just start somewhere and you’ll be neck-deep before you know it. You can use

I don’t understand the tone of this comment. Family link is voluntary. It is lame, yes, and it is just barely useful, but it offers some handy controls if you want to limit what your kid can access on an android device. It would be preferable for me to have a good kiosk mode, but I haven’t seen anything that met my needs.

or just buy a minipc for $130 from Ebay.

It is frustrating though, I have several old phones that are in good shape. It would be nice to give them a job. There might be one or two that boot without a battery.

it happens to every one of them eventually. Wonder what really causes it?

I think there is a way to fool it by soldering a jumper on the battery contacts. Probably varies from phone-to-phone.

I’m so close to doing this. Cloudflare makes me nervous. Have you heard of Rathole? That was recommended to basically do what my cloudflared tunnel is already doing. The only trouble I could see was I was going to have to keep the cloudflared access controls.

Is that a “you made me do this to you” excuse? That is asinine. Russian bots are the dumbest bots.

Yes. Obviously. Ivan, it’s hilarious you posted this in this thread because it is a top 5 russian psy-op talking point. Did you get your tabs mixed up? I’m shocked the Russians have been able to continue fighting with prolapsed rectums.

Choosing the lesser of two evils by definition leaves you with -checks notes- LESS EVIL. Fuck me is there anyone on this sub more than 12 years old?

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Still doesn’t make starting a war of aggression okay. Russia is still the bad guy.

not if it is a “mostly peaceful protest.” the cops open the gates then.

I’m still waiting for ICE to learn about the 2nd Amendment. Conservatives are 110% full of shit.

that’s simultaneously really funny and not at all.

that’s some bullshit. I bought a thing the other day that had a $7.00 fee for protection. I didn’t check it and thought, cool, they’ll just decline to ship it and keep my money if I don’t pay it. I didn’t pay it, I did get my shit, but the thought was thunk and now I’m thinking it again. You should think it too.

Whole foods asparagus water: $8

Whole foods aspargus water shoved into your asscrack while mumbling incoherently: priceless

Mental illness and homelessness go together like sex and cigarettes. You can have 1000 days of harmless hobos sleeping on benches, and all it takes is 1 or 2 stark-raving madmen attacking or harassing people to shift attention and spark concern about safety (falling property values because that neighborhood has a “bum problem”)

I’m not saying it’s right, it just how things work.

Edit: I’ve paid high rent to live somewhere and had to deal with panhandlers, hobos, and thieves. Kindness wasn’t a valuable tool. Needless to say it hits different when you are the one being affected.