This is indeed far too profound.
By the way, six years ago I built a huge desktop machine at home.
It was capable of supporting multiple graphics cards, but I only installed one of the cheapest ones just for basic display output.
About three years ago, I even removed that cheap GPU, because as a network server, I could connect to it via SSH — no need for a monitor at all.
Around eight months ago, I deployed a home AI assistant on it (ollama + open-webui + DeepSeek R1 14B).
It barely works, but I honestly couldn’t imagine what to use it for — after all, ChatGPT is already great and convenient enough for me.
I was looking around yesterday and came across this and got some ideas.
I run headless whenever possible.
If you are into self hosting, take a look at KaraKeep. It basically Pocket but open source and bring your own AI. I use this 100 times a day.
Check out LM Studio if you haven't, so much better than Ollama.
I don't use local AI much, I mostly use providers, so it is mostly for fun as I need the speed more, but I am working on a project that I do not want my data in the cloud and once I can prove it is profitable, I will be getting some RTX 6000 Pros and Epyc CPUs to run Kimi K2 locally.
Thank you very much for sharing KaraKeep and LM Studio. I will find time to learn them later.
For a geek, having fun is the most important thing.
If you can have fun while making a lot of money, that’s even more perfect.
Sincerely wishing your project great success!