I've found Raspberry Pis to be too unreliable for my homelab needs due to constant crashing and random performance drops. Instead, I bought two used 2012 Mac Minis with 16GB RAM, 1TB on eBay for about $120 each. I installed Proxmox on them, and it’s been a much better experience. It's nice not having to deal with ARM. They look decent and, most importantly, are super quiet. So can even use them in the living room. Absolutely zero issues with this setup—boring hardware wins.
I'm using Proxmox primarily to host a mix of VMs and containers that serve various purposes around my home and some utility software / local dev & testing servers. HomeAssistant, Plex, Pi-hole, Monica. Backup once a day to Google Drive.
I think they did a pivot to LLM phone calls? I've tried their library the other day and it works quite well. It even has the "interrupt feature" that is being talked about a few threads up. Supports a ton of backends for transcribe/voice/LLM.
OpenAI recently updated their limit documentation so there are tiers now. You automatically scale up through the tiers but you may be able to jump the line a bit by paying some extra. But I think you will have to wait 7-14 days since first payment before going to next tier. Try finding the usage and limits docs in your account.
Edit: Oh I see I'm in Tier 3 and the RPD limit on vision preview is still 100/day. Guess that's just it for now. It is labelled preview after all.
Thanks.
Yeah, it seems that even on Tier 5 the limit is 100/day, that's not enough for any production app.
I hope they go out of preview mode soon and therefore increase the limits
For business class, its often less expensive to buy airline miles than buying a cash ticket. Consider Lufthansa and their Miles & More program. You can currently buy 160k miles for $2,010 (1.26¢ per mile). A return business class flight from the West Coast to Germany is 156k miles and ~$100 in fees. The same flight is usually at least $5,000 for the cash ticket. In my experience, Miles and more tickets are superior to cash tickets, as they can be cancelled and changed for free.
There is availability from SF to Munich on the 25th for 78k miles - go enjoy Oktoberfest!
I've been using WorkOS for my SaaS products and I'm pretty satisfied with it. It's straightforward to set up Google/Microsoft/MagicLink (free), including staging and production environments. The best part, though, is that it lets my enterprise customers configure their own SAML/OpenID Connect IDPs.
I get charged per connection, so I just pass that cost onto my customers. As a solo developer, I'd have a hard time supporting so many IDPs with a unified API without this.
They did recently hike up the cost per connection, but they're giving a one-year extension at the old rates, which seems fair.
Their product looks great but the price seems insane. $125/m per connection? That's very hard to swallow for a SAAS looking to charge maybe $10-30 per seat. I get it, "enterprise!", but that's a pretty high barrier to entry for a company still establishing itself.
Absolutely, it's not the most inexpensive option out there. My strategy is, that I only initiate a connection once an agreement with an enterprise client is officially signed. This way, I'm not investing upfront without the assurance of a paying customer. I find this approach works quite well for my situation.
Is there anything like this but... not as nice? (and not as expensive)
I wouldn't mind having something like this to mess around on but not for $180 USD
You can get displays or a bluetooth speaker from DiVoom with a display that can be controlled from a PC, too.
I have the speaker called Timebox Evo with a 16x16 display. They used to be around $35 or so, i think now they cost $50. Its sound quality is mediocre at best but the display is nice, the app is pretty slick and the builtin battery lasts long. The build quality is also good.
That looks like a stock LED panel, pretty cheap on Amazon/ebay and can be driven directly by a Pi (with a bit of wiring) or more simply via a Pimoroni RGB matrix driver. Search for 'HUB75' panel and you'll find plenty of stuff to play with.
If you don't mind a wired connection and a smaller screen you can use a USB-I2C bridge (such as https://www.adafruit.com/product/4471) with an I2C OLED screen and a couple lines in Python.
If you want it to be wireless you can build it around an ESP32 module or similar.
On another note, isn't it just fantastic that Amazon made a pinky-swear "promise" to not use patient data it acquired with (Alphabet-backed) OneMedical? I mean, what could possibly go wrong with such an ironclad guarantee? It's not like Amazon has a history of exploiting user data for profit or anything. I feel so much better knowing that our medical information is in such trustworthy hands!
