In my experience LLMs have been great at implementing solved problems that it has been trained on.

I’ve built a low-level media system that AFAIK exists in one 20yo unmaintained open sourced version, and ~6 proprietary versions. Even with clear specifications and baby steps Opus had a very hard time getting functional code.

Posts from 16 minutes and 2 days ago here. Maybe your instance is not federating with theirs.

Yes, were all on c/LocalLLaMa

I’m running qwen3.8-next-flash on a rx7900xtx plus 128gb of ram. It serves my hermes agent. I direct it through matrix. I also forward an endpoint to my VPS to use for anything. Mostly opencode.

My VPS gets a weekly rsync to my home server. I keep ten deduplicated copies for weeks gone by. The current week also gets synced off-site with encryption.

I have a VPS running nginx and wireguard. I just forward whatever subdomains to my home server over wireguard.

My Swedish brain could not make sense of that. But it finally clicked: BESTÅ.

For my old Prusa i3 MK2 I had two LACK-tables on top of eachother, with acrylic from their cheapest picture frames for sides.

I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.

Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.

I 'member when microsoft ripped off stacker and called it drivespace.

As I recall they bought themselves out of it for a measly $100k and renamed it doublespace.

I mostly check if my SIL is watching anything before rebooting & updating. Otherwise my wife will stick her head in two minutes later to ask if jellyfin is down.

I wouldn’t call myself a distrohopper, but over the last 30 years I’ve daily-driven Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu (and derivates), Manjaro and now landed on EndeavourOS for the last four years.

I enjoy the vast and up-to-date software that pacman and AUR have, but I don’t really need the exercise in system installation/building any more. So EndeavourOS it is.

I’ve tried OpenSUSE and NixOS on virtual machines from time to time. I like, but I feel they’d be in the way for my computing needs at the moment.

I can’t recall where I got them. Probably the cheapest stuff off of eBay or Amazon. Looks like adafruit has one, too.

The original remote for my Panasonic units sends all the settings over IrDA, so I only had to record and replay the commands to turn it on and off.

The only internet-connected 32-bit device I own is a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS. I have an OG raspberry pi that controls a model lighthouse that we have for decoration.

In my old house I had two pi zero W:s with IR-HATs that turned on the air conditioning when they saw my phone nearby over Bluetooth. I’d still run those if I lived there.

No, well I do the first mount over sshfs, then wrap EncFS because I don’t trust hetzner with my unencrypted data. rsync just makes sure I only copy whatever files changed since last run to keep traffic at a minimum.

I’ve gone up one size. 5TB for 10,90€.

Weekly cronjob that mounts the storage box, an EncFS volume and rsyncs my files.

This.

However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.

btrfs device add /dev/newdrive /

btrfs device remove /dev/olddrive

Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.

It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.

I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.

I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.