Link it to openweb-ui makes things easier Then can knowledge it on say all the manuals in your house Or your home insurance policy or soemthing.

Link it to "speaches" and then you can make a voice chat.

Link it to continue.dev for coding

I think alot of the use case come from developing system prompts You can them make a "custom" model for specific tasks. I.e this model knows about my home insurance policy but writes back lile it's pirate with a stutter

Nothing useful but gets your toes wet.

Open source hardware movement != Free open source hardware movement.

I'm not sure that many are advocating the free part mainly the open part.

Google devices (so maybe apple ones as well) sometimes hard code the dns server so you need to redirect dns request to you local unbound instance with a firewall rule.

2 potentials

ISP blocking Web hosting ports/traffic - often opt Out or flat out blocked for residential connections.

ISP using CGNAT so your "public ip" isn't really public? But you got this far so i would guess you already know that.

For reference, the cgnat "public ip range" should be 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255

If you do have cgnat i think maybe cloudflare tunnels, tailscale or a vps are your solutions.

In short yes They all have their own key pair. Private and public Each client should know the "servers" public key. And the "server" should know the client's public key(s)

Batocera on spare machine you have running for a really easy nearly turn key experience. Its also pretty good at handling controllers and has an ok wiki Has kodi built in which you cna use jellyfin plugins (i dont like those though) I dont think it does multi user which may not work for parental controls (big beleiver in talking to your kids solving most issues) And no RomM plugin last time i checked maybe has it now.

Little bit more manual but with nearly the same front end ES-DE. Maybe with emudeck to make it a bit easier to manage. i have this on bazite with steam big picture and ES-DE as a non steam game. Theres also steam rom manager but i havent used that.

For ease of use and setup and wife kid friendly and just less life stress use batocera. Boot it from an external usb to try it out. If you find it gets some use you could install ES-DE on the main os and manually manange. Or just dual boot forever depends on your tinkering appitite.

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