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Homelab ops · 2026-09-11

Zero cloud usage since getting a Strix Halo — almost

DevOps work, smart-home control, and paperwork all moved off the cloud once Strix Halo hardware arrived — with one exception the poster caught themselves forgetting.

Since getting a Strix Halo machine, this person says they've stopped using any cloud provider — for DevOps work, and privately for controlling their smart home and handling paperwork through Paperless-NGX with custom scripts. They later added an edit admitting that's not fully accurate: their team's merge and pull-request pipelines at work still run through Claude, a detail easy to overlook when describing your own setup as fully local.

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