Been using it 18 months. Have drawn out $20 so far. Be another 6 months till I get another $20 which is the minimum withdrawal. Network has been solid and nothing dodgy showing up in the firewall or on my DNS. It's not amazing, but it's free money

Current Self-hosted Setup

Hardware

Server 1
Trycoo / Peladn mini pc
Intel n97 CPU
Integrated GPU
32gb of 3200mt/s ddr4 (Upgraded from 16gb)
512nvme
2x 2tb ssd's (Raid1 + LVM)
Startech usb to sata cable
Atolla 6 port powered usb 3.0 splitter 
2x 8tb hdd's
2 bay usb 3.0 Fideco dock
Each 8tb HDD is split into 2 equal size partitions, making 4 x 4tb partitions
Each night, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating first partition of the HDD's .
Each 1st of the month, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating 2nd partition of the HDD's .

Server 2
Raspberry pi 4b
32gb SD card
4gb ram

Services

Server 1
Nginx web server / reverse proxy.  
Fail2ban.  
Crowdsec.  
Valutwarden
Bit warden reimplantation for storing credentials 
Forgejo
Remote federated git
Immich.   
Google Photos replacement.  
External libraries only.  
4 users.  
Radicale
Calender and contacts
Navidrome.  
Spotify replacement.  
2 users.  
Adguard home
1st instance
Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
Unbound
Provides recursive DNS
Go-notes
Rich Text formatting, live, real time multi-user notes app
FMD
Find my device
Transmission
Torrent client
PIA VPN
Network Namespace script to isolate PIA & Transmission
Searxng
Meta search engine
StirlingPDF 
PDF editor
File browser
This is in maintenance mode only so I am planning to migrate to File Browser Quantum soon
Syncthing 
Syncs 3 android and 1 apple phone for immich
Custom rsync backup script
Darkstat
Real time Network statistics

Server 2
Fail2ban
Crowdsec
Honeygain
Generates a tiny passive income
I'm UK based and in the last 6 months it has produced £15
Adguard home
2nd instance
Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
Unbound
Provides recursive DNS
Custom DDNS update script

No, I agree, there is huge potential to get back on the curve or even blow right through it, but currently and over roughly the last decade, moores law has been dead. At some point in future compute will grow massively. Humans have only been around for 10,000 years, and silicon tech isn't even a blim in that history. Give it another 10, 100, 1000 years, we will be able to brute force anything we currently think is out of scope. But in the short term, the here and now, it's worth exploring more elegant solutions that don't require compute beyond our current availability

One of the reasons people keep making the same "mistake" is because moores law isn't actually a law, and just an observation that was true from the 1960s to 2010s, so rightly assumed moores law wouldn't go on forever so relying on ever increasing availability of compute wasn't the best strategy.

Moores law has been dead for years now and the growth in compute is gradually slowing further. Yes, compute will continue to increase, but the pace is slowing and there is potential for it to stagnate.

No mate. I wrote it all by myself pressing every key on my phone. Entirely my own opinion too.

I enjoyed your post and glad you have a balanced view of llm use. I totally agree llm's are a useful tool and will inevitably be used in all and every field they can be

However I feel like it will go down like a lead balloon in this community as there is a lot of hate for llm's, and I even expect my comment to be slatted by "them".

I love podman quadlets, I didn't do anything and it updated itself 😁

The vast majority of the world uses compatible voltages, so just a basic adapter is all that you need. The only places using odd voltage requiring a transformer are Japan and Northern America.

However for things with a power brick like a ps5, you just need to buy the correct power brick.

You can get universal plug sockets that accept any plug, see them in the middle East a lot. Obviously they only work with 220-240 v

Mine isn't there as an option, the internet was designed and built to be a free and open decentralised place. power, data, and control over the internet shouldnt be concentrated in a small number of corporations or governments. Instead, infrastructure, identity, content, and money should be spread across many independent nodes that no single entity controls. The fediverse is the return to what the internet always has been and always will be, just there was a small blip over the last decade or so where we lost our way.

I use it on all my machines. Debian, arch and void Linux. I have an efibootmgr script on each machine with my setup in, so if I ever need to change a setting, I update and run the script. In void, I have a hook for dracut to call it so everything stays working whenever I have a kernel update. It's very simple and easy once you get the hang of it.

Mine just runs over my music directory on a cron and tags what it wants. I don't pay any attention to it. I haven't come across a mis tagged track yet. Maybe I will at some point?

Efistub is the simplest and best solution, but agree it could do with some basic manager.