2026-04-19 12:48 UTC
If you aren’t running it yourself, you’ll always be held hostage by toxic companies!
Time and time again, from account closures to account locking… if you value anything, you should really look at self hosting it. Yes it’s a learning curve, but now is actually a good time because you have claude to help, but don’t expect that to last!
I am and will only ever use the free tier of claude but even that is actually pretty useful. Just don’t reuse the same chat, create new ones, delete ones no longer needed and you rarely hit the usage limits.
I’ve used claude to get my own AI server running on a low power beelink PC and while i’m still learning, it runs pretty well so Imcan now bounce between my own AI, to claude for the few issues I can’t solve.
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@floofloof@lemmy.ca 2026-04-19 12:51
I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that's not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.
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@LievitoPadre@feddit.it 2026-04-19 13:12
Hi, what kind of beelink do you have and AI do you run there? I have a similar setup and I'm very interested, I didn't think it was possible to run it on that low end.