…I didn’t have numerous devices, thankfully, to push me into the sunk cost fallacy. Since there was a growing list of cloud-dependent devices to manage, I moved on to build…
…I replaced 4 paid subscriptions with one open-source tool The Swiss Army knife of open-source. Straightforward setup, smarter tracking Continuous price monitoring Installing self-hosted apps with Docker isn't…
…Plex's argument is that maintaining the relay infrastructure for remote connections costs money, and that's fair enough. What it doesn't change is that my use is extremely occasional. I…
…Omnitools is a powerhouse with numerous mini-tools that can do the jobs I mentioned while not costing a penny. You may question my decision to pick a locally hosted tool over…
…Want me to look at the other two repair items (backup upload failure, deprecated decora_wifi YAML), or stop here? A few questions later, both my automatic backups (my Nabu Casa subscription…
…Related 5 networking tools I use weekly that don't cost anything No subscriptions, just five free networking essentials. Cloudflare is still here, just not in the way In my previous article…
…This helps bring down the LLM usage costs. Using MinusPod day to day Set it and forget it For the most part, this is an app that you'll set up and…
…The thing is, unless you're hosting your own local LLM models , the costs of that accelerated development cycle add up quickly. And sometimes, you just don't need the additional help…
…I'm currently using the AI X1 Pro-470 as a home server , where it's reduced my yearly cloud subscriptions by over $1,000. That's nearly the cost of the…
…Related I use local LLMs and self-hosted apps to manage my documents instead of relying on ChatGPT Not every LLM-powered task requires a ChatGPT subscription A workflow that changes how…