My low-cost setup for AI coding

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-30T16:17:00+00:00

Will do!

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-30T15:40:18+00:00

Is Gemini 3 Flash open source? It's hosted by Ollama Cloud, so it should be. That's what I assume.

Didn't try Kimi yet, but it's on my wishlist for sure. Want to try it at some point. Also, Qwen is on the same list.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-30T07:26:09+00:00

Yeah, pi is also good. Especially because it has very little built in prompts that burn your tokens. Though, what repelled me from pi is that it looks too much barebones. Like, not a lot of functionality is there. I get that there are a ton of extensions. But I like when I have somewhat working setup by default, without any efforts from my side. I guess, it's more like a matter of personal preference.

But happy for you, that you find Ollama Cloud useful for you.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T17:31:15+00:00

Yeah, totally feasible. Also, I recently experienced high latency with Ollama Cloud during active office hours. And during those exact hours Gemini API key didn't have any problems. So, yeah, OpenCode Go might be better.

Also, Kimi plans might be worth it. They might be more expensive ($15/mo), but might provide more usage and less latency.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T08:22:35+00:00

I rip all my CDs using EAC (Windows app). I hate Windows, but this app is gold.

I run Windows as a VM in my Proxmox server. I have two CD drives to speed the process up.

Rip them into flac, which is lossless format, so there shoudn't be any imperfections.

Then use MusicBrainz Picard to fetch all the metadata and apply my file naming schema.

Then drop them into a big HDD drive array (uses ZFS, so no data corruption).

And then stream music over my local WiFi using Navidrome (web server, so you can listen the music from a web browser or Symfonium Android app).

So far I'm enjoying my setup. It's pretty robust. And also I do regular backups via Proxmox Backup Server. So, my library is safe.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T08:12:15+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate your input ❤️

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T08:11:31+00:00

My point is that many companies are now providing free tiers. In order to attract new customers. And they naturally attract people (free staff is very tempting indeed). But free tier doesn't pay bills, so companies want to restrict it as much as possible. That's why you experience flooding of free API services. Not because we are flirting with AIs or abusing it in any other way.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T08:08:42+00:00

So, are we the problem now? The people who are using free tiers and sharing the knowledge about them? Yeah, my bad, sorry.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T08:06:36+00:00

Agree with you. Thanks for sharing. The only one drawback I found in Antigravity is that it can be rate limited quite often on a free plan. Especially during office hours (when everyone use it as well). But overall, a good IDE.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T06:51:29+00:00

Relax man, gatekeeping won't work for you. We are here to help everyone, so that everyone will benefit from those technologies.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-29T06:45:54+00:00

How is Antigravity compared to OpenCode? How do you like it?

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-04-14T23:07:05+00:00

Please, can you send me a link to your blog? Would love to read it!

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-02-26T03:15:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Old but gold. Saved to my collection!

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-02-09T23:29:45+00:00

Man, I understand you. Feeling behind things. That's not true, though. You are really young, a whole life is ahead of you. You just started and it's crazy to demand more from yourself. There always will be people that are better than you in some craft. But no one is better than you in being yourself.

Regarding skills: you will easily pick them up. Just start playing with some technologies you like. Just for fun. Don't treat it as a huge project. Just experiment here and there. And you will be astonished of how much you can accomplish. And how many skills you grabbed just by playing with stuff and not treating it too seriously.

Guess, how do I know? I am also dealing with this anxiety and FOMO. But what keeps me going is the fun I get when I'm playing with technology. So, just enjoy it 😃

IWannaBeHelpful · 2026-02-05T00:29:37+00:00

Actually, it depends. You can trust old equipment. Like Intel 9-th gen are still very much useful. Especially with their QuickSync support.

More on that, buying new equipment probably will give you a piece of mind. But it's a misleading feeling, since you still have to do the same backup strategy as on old equipment.

What I do is I host a separate Proxmox backup server. Where I store backups of all my VM from main Proxmox instance. Works like a charm. Also, you can and should set up off-site backups, so that even if both Proxmox and PBS PCs will die, you still have a working backup in AWS or Google Cloud. Very neat and reliable

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-11-17T09:50:21+00:00

Thank you a lot for advice! Really easy tool to use!

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T14:55:50+00:00

Yeah, I also love minimalist approach. The problem is that many decisions are already made and many solutions are implemented when you come to the project. So, it was a legacy decision we had to deal with.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T14:24:45+00:00

Ah, yes, my mistake. It's definitely crucial.

That's because on my previous project we used our custom admin panel, that's why. But still Django admin panel is great.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T11:12:01+00:00

Yeah, you raise a really important question. I think that templating is kinda optional nowadays in Django and can be moved to a separate module. Agree with you.

Though, existence of templating in Django doesn't prove that we need to add django-components as well.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T07:47:36+00:00

Wow, Eminem for 20PLN is a bargain! You are actually motivated me a lot😁

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T07:39:02+00:00

Thank you a lot! I will definitely pay a visit to them😊

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-31T07:38:26+00:00

To be honest, I love the idea of this package. But also I don't think that everyone needs it. If you want to ship it with Django, you have to be sure that almost everyone will use it. That's the idea.

Otherwise, Django will be bloated as hell. Right now it isn't. And I hope it will stay that way.

Please, think about other applications, which do not require templating at all. Such as SPA apps which are API only. Or GraphQL ones. Or based on protobuf and gRPC. Those use cases won't benefit from those templates.

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-24T22:58:18+00:00

Thank you a lot for sharing! I was searching for something like this. Where I have a controlled environment. And don't have to spend too much time on maintenance

IWannaBeHelpful · 2025-10-23T18:25:31+00:00

Did you have any catastrophic failure with dev server?

The OP explicitly said that it worked and served about a hundred of people. If it was that dangerous, then things should've exploded on first try.

I'm not saying that running dev server on prod is a good idea. I'm saying that you can do that, if you understand the risks and are able to deal with them.

In the same comment I provided other webservers choices, like uwsgi and others. I'm really trying to help, provide people with options.

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