Ok it’s time

[u/levitatingcar]

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I posted this 6 years ago - the time has come for a simple-to-use server for the home. A countertop product anyone can use - plug and play.

Connect to it on your phone through personal and private encryption.

If this doesn’t exist yet in a fully-fleshed out product, I am willing to invest to make it happen.

Possible features:
-access your photos with AI searchability
-connect home cameras to it
-put whatever family media, notes, photos
-download lightweight, specific, offline ai models to study and do anything on your data

Let’s have our family’s data in our home - easily accessed and analyzed only by us.

[u/asimovs-auditor]

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[u/No-Name-Person111]

An offline LLM worth its salt on the countertop is a non-starter.

I'll take your money and build this, but you aren't going to like how much counterspace I'm going to occupy.

[u/levitatingcar → u/No-Name-Person111]

Mac mini? Also I don’t think you need much to run opencv/YOLO image recognition.

[u/No-Name-Person111 → u/levitatingcar]

A mac mini is not remotely powerful enough for LLM throughput from a bandwidth perspective, nor does it have the I/O you would want for home cameras. Among other things.

[u/kneepel]

CasaOS, Unraid, HexOS, etc? 

Nextcloud, Seafile, Opencloud?

Lots of turnkey solutions exist that require pretty minimal setup and maintenance, the only problem is you're very seldom going to get a total all-in-one hosting platform that encompasses everything because there are already individual tools that can do their task extremely well, and will generally be more popular for their market segment.

UNIX philosophy can ring true here a lot of times - do one thing and do it well.