After roughly a year on a local setup, this person uses it for some private coding projects but mostly as a general life assistant with access to internet search, their journal, and their photo library. They weigh open-weight models hosted by EU-compliant inference providers as a cheaper middle ground, but ultimately prefer running their own rig for the control and the reliability of not depending on an external service's uptime or policy changes — treating it as long-term personal infrastructure worth the extra effort.
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