Does anyone run their own AI service?
If so,
Which one?
What hardware?
Do you have a way to access it from outside or from a phone?
And, if you’re open to sharing, what do you do with it?
I know AI-enabling hardware is insanely expensive right now, but some of the smaller (<32GB) more efficient models (think deepseek- or qwen-based) don’t absolutely need specialized hardware to run and perform well enough for many purposes.
I am so aware of the absolutely abysmal privacy practices of basically all AI companies that I’m not comfortable using them to help me with web searches and the such, because there’s no way that all this information won’t be going into a profile. This makes me want to have my own “helper” service.
I’ve thought about bodging something together with n8n and Tasker so I can just screenshot something or send it a voice note and have it add an event on my calendar.
That being said my server is an 8th gen i3 w/ 12GB of RAM and I’m not willing to leave my desktop running 24/7 so idk if I can run a model good enough to handle this over there. Even if it is a supposedly menial “OCR and call tool” workflow.