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A 24-YEAR-OLD CHINESE DEVELOPER FROM HANGZHOU TURNED RTX 4090 / 3090-CLASS GPU RACKS INTO HIS OWN PRIVATE AI CLOUD. HIS $740/MONTH AI BILL DROPPED TO $31 IN ELECTRICITY he got tired of paying for chatgpt, claude, cursor, openai api credits and every “pro” tool that quietly turns into another...

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457,654 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

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Alex Lieberman

57,044 просмотров • 23 дней назад

The companies charging $200/month for AI assumed local hardware would never catch up. It caught up. He's assembling the proof right now. A PC that runs Qwen 3.6 27B a free model that beats Claude on vision by 7 points. DeepSeek R1 for math and reasoning. Llama 3.3 70B for everything else. All local. All free. All forever. Electricity: $9/month. Subscriptions: $0. He used to pay $459/month for Claude Code, ChatGPT Pro, and Cursor. That's $5,500 a year going to someone else's servers. The hardware he's building costs less than one year of that bill. And it never sends another invoice. He's still assembling it. The subscription renewal reminder hit his inbox while he was putting it together. He ignored it.
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The companies charging $200/month for AI assumed local hardware would never catch up. It caught up. He's assembling the proof right now. A PC that runs Qwen 3.6 27B a free model that beats Claude on vision by 7 points. DeepSeek R1 for math and reasoning. Llama 3.3 70B for everything else. All local. All free. All forever. Electricity: $9/month. Subscriptions: $0. He used to pay $459/month for Claude Code, ChatGPT Pro, and Cursor. That's $5,500 a year going to someone else's servers. The hardware he's building costs less than one year of that bill. And it never sends another invoice. He's still assembling it. The subscription renewal reminder hit his inbox while he was putting it together. He ignored it.

Superior

444,421 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

THIS FRENCH GUY RUNS OPENCLAW AND HERMES AI AGENTS ON A HOMELAB THAT REPLACED GOOGLE DRIVE AND ICLOUD ENTIRELY ON JUST 10 WATTS The project: host his own local AI agents, OpenClaw and Hermes, ditch cloud storage subscriptions entirely by running his own NAS, and use the whole build to prep for his K8s certification – all running on 4 Raspberry Pis. Today's upgrade: a PoE module. One Ethernet cable now does two jobs – powers the Raspberry Pi AND gives it network access at the same time. No separate power adapters, no cable clutter, no juggling connections during maintenance. Total power draw for all 4 Raspberry Pis combined: max 10 watts. He's not renting cloud storage anymore. He's not paying monthly subscriptions for space he already owns the hardware for. His files, his AI agents, his data – all sitting on hardware in his own home, on a fraction of the power a lightbulb uses. Next up: blocking ads network-wide across his entire home, using one of the automation services running on the same setup. This is what "own your data" actually looks like when someone builds it instead of just talking about it. Bookmark this post. Full build in the video below.
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THIS FRENCH GUY RUNS OPENCLAW AND HERMES AI AGENTS ON A HOMELAB THAT REPLACED GOOGLE DRIVE AND ICLOUD ENTIRELY ON JUST 10 WATTS The project: host his own local AI agents, OpenClaw and Hermes, ditch cloud storage subscriptions entirely by running his own NAS, and use the whole build to prep for his K8s certification – all running on 4 Raspberry Pis. Today's upgrade: a PoE module. One Ethernet cable now does two jobs – powers the Raspberry Pi AND gives it network access at the same time. No separate power adapters, no cable clutter, no juggling connections during maintenance. Total power draw for all 4 Raspberry Pis combined: max 10 watts. He's not renting cloud storage anymore. He's not paying monthly subscriptions for space he already owns the hardware for. His files, his AI agents, his data – all sitting on hardware in his own home, on a fraction of the power a lightbulb uses. Next up: blocking ads network-wide across his entire home, using one of the automation services running on the same setup. This is what "own your data" actually looks like when someone builds it instead of just talking about it. Bookmark this post. Full build in the video below.

SCOTTY BEAM

18,175 просмотров • 16 дней назад

🚨 OG YOUTUBER PEWDIEPIE JUST LAUNCHED A FREE, OPEN-SOURCE AI RIVAL TO CHATGPT AND CLAUDE While ChatGPT and Claude charge users for premium features, PewDiePie’s new AI workspace, Odysseus, is FREE. In his own words, "NO tracking, NO subscriptions, and can be run on your OWN computer." Odysseus is essentially “Claude and ChatGPT’s web UI, but SELF-hosted”, allowing users to run local AI models or use APIs while keeping control of their own data. Odysseus includes: - An AI agent that can find, create, edit and run files - Memory that learns from past conversations - Deep research with follow-up chat - An email client that flags urgent messages and drafts replies - A document editor for writing, formatting and fact-checking - Calendar, to-do notes and search tools - An image editor - “Cookbook,” which scans hardware, recommends local models and helps users run them - Mobile support Its BIGGEST selling point is privacy and control. “All your data is yours, as it should be.” He also made a firm commitment on pricing: “This project will never cost any money.” The launch comes just days after PewDiePie announced he was ENDING his vlogs. Retirement arc is wild.
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🚨 OG YOUTUBER PEWDIEPIE JUST LAUNCHED A FREE, OPEN-SOURCE AI RIVAL TO CHATGPT AND CLAUDE While ChatGPT and Claude charge users for premium features, PewDiePie’s new AI workspace, Odysseus, is FREE. In his own words, "NO tracking, NO subscriptions, and can be run on your OWN computer." Odysseus is essentially “Claude and ChatGPT’s web UI, but SELF-hosted”, allowing users to run local AI models or use APIs while keeping control of their own data. Odysseus includes: - An AI agent that can find, create, edit and run files - Memory that learns from past conversations - Deep research with follow-up chat - An email client that flags urgent messages and drafts replies - A document editor for writing, formatting and fact-checking - Calendar, to-do notes and search tools - An image editor - “Cookbook,” which scans hardware, recommends local models and helps users run them - Mobile support Its BIGGEST selling point is privacy and control. “All your data is yours, as it should be.” He also made a firm commitment on pricing: “This project will never cost any money.” The launch comes just days after PewDiePie announced he was ENDING his vlogs. Retirement arc is wild.

Coin Bureau

73,870 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

This guy runs an Nvidia Spark from his desk and pulls in $8,000 a month The device is the size of a small speaker and sits right on his desk. Inside is a full Nvidia GPU running AI workloads 24/7. He rents out the compute power to companies that need local AI processing. They pay him a flat monthly fee to use it remotely. $8,000 lands in his account every single month. He just plugged it in and that was it. The $4,000 box paid for itself in two weeks. Now it prints $96,000 a year from a device smaller than a coffee machine. Companies are desperate for local compute and regular people are quietly supplying it. Save this before everyone figures out what he already knows.
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This guy runs an Nvidia Spark from his desk and pulls in $8,000 a month The device is the size of a small speaker and sits right on his desk. Inside is a full Nvidia GPU running AI workloads 24/7. He rents out the compute power to companies that need local AI processing. They pay him a flat monthly fee to use it remotely. $8,000 lands in his account every single month. He just plugged it in and that was it. The $4,000 box paid for itself in two weeks. Now it prints $96,000 a year from a device smaller than a coffee machine. Companies are desperate for local compute and regular people are quietly supplying it. Save this before everyone figures out what he already knows.

winkle.

57,919 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

This girl built a $24/year AI visual setup while most creators are still overpaying $1,800 to $4,080 a year for APIs, cloud rendering and visual tools. And no, this isn’t a pre-render or a paid filter hiding in the cloud. It’s live on her laptop right now. The phone camera feeds into TouchDesigner, the movement gets turned into particles, and the whole visual reacts in real time. Most people build this the expensive way. $50 to $180/month in API usage, $40 to $100/month for cloud rendering, another $60/month for visual software, then a “small” creative workflow quietly turns into a $3,000+/year habit. Her stack cuts through almost all of that. The phone becomes the input. TouchDesigner handles the visual layer. Ollama runs the local model. The laptop does the loop without sending every experiment to someone else’s server. No cloud GPU. No API meter. No subscription chain. No project that dies when the billing page fails. Just a normal machine, a camera feed, a node graph and a local model running visuals people still assume need a paid stack behind them. The numbers are the insane part. $0 for Ollama. $0 for TouchDesigner non-commercial. 8GB+ RAM is enough to start. Around $2/month if you count electricity. That’s $24/year instead of a stack that can hit $4,080/year. The effect looks like something a studio would sell. The setup is just one girl refusing to rent the whole process every month.
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This girl built a $24/year AI visual setup while most creators are still overpaying $1,800 to $4,080 a year for APIs, cloud rendering and visual tools. And no, this isn’t a pre-render or a paid filter hiding in the cloud. It’s live on her laptop right now. The phone camera feeds into TouchDesigner, the movement gets turned into particles, and the whole visual reacts in real time. Most people build this the expensive way. $50 to $180/month in API usage, $40 to $100/month for cloud rendering, another $60/month for visual software, then a “small” creative workflow quietly turns into a $3,000+/year habit. Her stack cuts through almost all of that. The phone becomes the input. TouchDesigner handles the visual layer. Ollama runs the local model. The laptop does the loop without sending every experiment to someone else’s server. No cloud GPU. No API meter. No subscription chain. No project that dies when the billing page fails. Just a normal machine, a camera feed, a node graph and a local model running visuals people still assume need a paid stack behind them. The numbers are the insane part. $0 for Ollama. $0 for TouchDesigner non-commercial. 8GB+ RAM is enough to start. Around $2/month if you count electricity. That’s $24/year instead of a stack that can hit $4,080/year. The effect looks like something a studio would sell. The setup is just one girl refusing to rent the whole process every month.

Gipp 🦅

23,556 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

A guy got tired of renting intelligence from the cloud, so he put a 120-billion-parameter model in his closet for $0 a month. One mini PC. The Minisforum MS-S1 MAX. 128GB of unified memory, and a trick that hands 96GB of it straight to the GPU. Here's how it breaks: That 96GB is the whole game. Enough to run GPT-OSS-120B fully local, and still keep the agent and dashboard on the same box. 120 billion parameters. 56.6 tokens a second. A 5,000-word essay in one pass at 110W and 68°C. Quiet. Cool. Local. Then Hermes Agent goes on top, pointed at localhost. No API key, because there's nothing to phone home to. It drafts, researches, runs tool calls, manages sub-agents. None of it leaves the network. The cloud version cost $10 to $20 a day, keys and customer data routed through machines he didn't own. Now it's a box in a closet. $0 a month. The chip is real. The build is brilliant. And somewhere in the first few minutes, the AI stopped being a bill he paid every morning and became a machine he owns, humming in a closet, working for free.
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A guy got tired of renting intelligence from the cloud, so he put a 120-billion-parameter model in his closet for $0 a month. One mini PC. The Minisforum MS-S1 MAX. 128GB of unified memory, and a trick that hands 96GB of it straight to the GPU. Here's how it breaks: That 96GB is the whole game. Enough to run GPT-OSS-120B fully local, and still keep the agent and dashboard on the same box. 120 billion parameters. 56.6 tokens a second. A 5,000-word essay in one pass at 110W and 68°C. Quiet. Cool. Local. Then Hermes Agent goes on top, pointed at localhost. No API key, because there's nothing to phone home to. It drafts, researches, runs tool calls, manages sub-agents. None of it leaves the network. The cloud version cost $10 to $20 a day, keys and customer data routed through machines he didn't own. Now it's a box in a closet. $0 a month. The chip is real. The build is brilliant. And somewhere in the first few minutes, the AI stopped being a bill he paid every morning and became a machine he owns, humming in a closet, working for free.

shmidt

245,607 просмотров • 1 месяц назад