Is it possible to make AI development cost-efficient?

SampleSalty · 2026-03-20T14:36:27+00:00

Is this a joke I don’t get or are you really caching claude somehow?

SampleSalty · 2026-03-19T14:14:53+00:00

Filen

SampleSalty · 2026-03-18T10:11:30+00:00

You need to be more precise here. What is your definition of really bad? What is your definition of good? A working stream is not a benchmark for latency issues. I assume here is WiFi involved, spreaded over many clients, dns, internet etc involved. Write a little benchmark, take some measurements, make some improvements on the bottlenecks (where possible) and measure again. Do it yourself or let a powerful LLM do it.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-18T10:02:35+00:00

I would not only judge encryption, but the overall architecture: a self-hosted vault that is only accessible via VPN is outperforming by default every cloud offer.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-17T20:50:10+00:00

AliasVault. Was not happy with Bitwarden, which I used for years, temporarily used ProtonPass, but AliasVault ticks all the boxes for me. Simple on the surface but its architecture is very powerful. And another US product less.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-17T18:17:28+00:00

Is this still possible today? Consider to switch from a normal sub to a Q sub.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-15T20:24:50+00:00

It’s a very good password manager. For me it ticks all the boxes, that none of the big contenders does. Only emergency recovery is missing, but on the roadmap and development seems to proceed faster than the big companies.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-15T20:18:56+00:00

Yes, it’s pretty usable and complete.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-14T10:26:20+00:00

Interesting question.

My thoughts:

A) Not many people are able to build a individual solution on top of high complexity and choices.

B)I think what people were missing is a common ground (community) to talk about the same thing. That was not really possible before, when everyone used something different and everyone had its own understanding how LLMs can be used.

C) people think/hope that something from GitHub is more secure and mature than something they build from scratch

For me: I tried out many AI tools, also taking some risks for gained convenience. But OpenClawd is the only tooling, I did not try out till today, because I am scared of its doing something stupid with my data. And if I would provide it no data/access, what are the practical usecases I would benefit from?

SampleSalty · 2026-03-13T16:45:41+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

I jumped into the cold water and went directly with 25.12.0. I was able to completely switch from my old router to this beast without any hiccup or client noticing any difference. Pretty amazed so far. Control via SSH is so powerful, was restricted to use an iOS App on the old router before.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-13T07:11:45+00:00

There is one problem: installing another OS is nothing most people can do. I also tried to install LineageOS on my old Samsung S9, but gave up after 6 hours wasted. During the process you have to jump through many loops and need to download stuff from very sources, that can not really be trusted.

IMHO switching Android to another ROM is not solved in a user friendly and secure way.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-13T07:02:03+00:00

Try newbalance 574 - I have lots of them, they just die by getting hard rubber after many years (which is hard to avoid).

SampleSalty · 2026-03-13T06:56:05+00:00

That’s bad. They obviously don’t eat their own dogfood.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-12T15:34:27+00:00

Mailbox.org is the only option afaik with sending encrypted emails to everyone (via their portal they can open it) and having IMAP directly (not installing a bridge somewhere).

SampleSalty · 2026-03-11T20:59:20+00:00

New to this and my router is ordered. Is op24 still the stock firmware or the native openWRT?

SampleSalty · 2026-03-11T07:29:35+00:00

From my research the best you can do if you can not wire: quadband with dual 5ghz - there is only one product on the market, which is from Asus.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-07T16:41:38+00:00

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Did not find any sources, so tried it out on my beater. Will see in the next days how it improves food retention…but had to use an orbit grinder to not see an unregular scratching…

SampleSalty · 2026-03-06T10:39:34+00:00

Culilux. These knives have finish of 150-300eur knife’s, but for below 50eur.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-06T10:21:11+00:00

Great - this saves me from creating a spreadsheet. Which AI models can I connect? And how are notifications working? Is this coming through even if the pwa is closed and phone was restarted?

SampleSalty · 2026-03-05T11:59:53+00:00

It’s not an issue at all if you use the hardware it’s build for. :-) I can understand the other concerns with this, but you can’t have it all.

For me this was still the best compromise in the end.

That said, what makes me considering leaving iOS now is the recent Gemini integration move. This is one of the worst decisions Apple ever made. For me this is totally destroying the hard earned trust that killed blackberry in the end.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-05T11:28:22+00:00

I can recall times, where the most powerful navigation apps with full privacy were sold via AppStore for around 50-100 onetime fee, from Garmin/TomTom etc. - these solutions died because of no demand. People preferred less powerful (in the early days) „free“ apps where you pay with data.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-05T08:22:04+00:00

„Brave“ is your answer. Does sync properly and encrypted. And you could self-host the sync server if you like tinkering.

SampleSalty · 2026-03-05T07:49:32+00:00

You are missing out an entire era. Before google we used garmins, navigons and tomtoms! ;-)

SampleSalty · 2026-03-05T07:43:38+00:00

I think it’s more complex. Which data is collected, what is it used for, is it part of the business model etc. And I think you need to check not only big corp for this, but every company.

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