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@SaraSoueidan solar.lowtechmagazine is a fantastic site. It was inspiration for me giving it a go. I have written up how it all works here: https://scott.ee/project/solar-hosting-raspberry-pi/ ☀️ Mine is smaller scale and as it has been a grey start to November in Sweden my backup server is catching the traffic today.

@Rob_J uCore is my preferred choice (https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore) but I'd probably start with something like https://umbrel.com/umbrelos if I was setting up a server for someone else.

@catsalad Some LINUX spray to clean up Mac dirt.

@SaraSoueidan https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com is a fantastic site. It was inspiration for me giving it a go. I have written up how it all works here: https://scott.ee/project/solar-hosting-raspberry-pi/ ☀️ Mine is smaller scale and as it has been a grey start to November in Sweden my backup server is catching the traffic today.

@robertpi@functional.cafe I have been intrigued by radicle.xyz. Not your typical source forge, but the local first approach and decentralisation look neat.

@jadehopepunk@hachyderm.io I think another strong policy would be "local first" or "local only". Funding AI firms through a monthly subscription is a vote for further data center expansion (which leads to most of the other bad stuff like emissions and excessive water use). Put that money into your own hardware, source your own renewables and be responsible for your own bills. The rest of your principles seem solid... I would maybe push back on the hobbies one. Integrating a small local model with Home Assistant has been a lot of fun. Our home now has some personality and it helps to soften what can be quite dry technology. How do you feel about the training side of things? Do you actively block LLM crawlers from your content?