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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.

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[–] jwiggler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much my setup as well. Though I'm using qwen3.8 27b-Q4_K_M under ollama. Everything running with docker. Add nginx and either a domain+port forwarding or zerotier/tailscale you've got an app you can get to from outside your house.

Right now not sure how I'm going to leverage it not probably to streamline my self hosted stuff, help with config mgmt and documentation, web page summarization, etc. we'll see how it does, just got it setup yesterday

[–] robber@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

In case you are unaware, friends don't let friends use ollama. The llama.cpp CLI has become pretty much equally easy to use, plus since you use Docker there's no need to compile anything.

Edit: typos and missing words

[–] jwiggler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Oh shit I wasn't aware! Thanks for the heads up, I'll swap to llama.cpp

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh damn what a useful link. Gonna check out those orchestrators, maybe I can replace my janky ass proxy.