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.

  • 0x0f@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I use llama-swap with a couple of different models, one 8B as a general chat bot, with offloading to several MoE-models for specific workloads. It’s all run on an old dell xps with 64GB ram.

    Mine is used for code reviews, general questions, coding assistance and for anything else I can think of.