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For those interested, you can get the base config Mac Mini (in the US) for $400 from Micro Center [0]. They don’t seem to ship to where I live, but BestBuy was happy to price match in the support chat.

Just received mine and planned on experimenting with something like OP this weekend.

[0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/688173/apple-mac-mini-mu...

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I understand the need for a dedicated box, but any reason you shouldn't just use a server? What would someone recommend for cloud on something like Hetzner?

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

In fact, seems much better you'd host something like that outside your own personal network. Given people are getting new hardware for it for "isolation", probably running it somewhere else completely would be better?

I still don't understand why people don't just run it in a VM and separate VLAN instead.

For me it was access to Apple ecosystem of things. I used vps but it had to contact my http for reminders and iMessage etc. much nicer in Mac mini. It works better.

Like someone else said, I want to build something that has access to Apple stuff (reminders, iMessage), but also because I want to try to run some small LLM locally in front to route and do tool calling.

The residential IP is also a plus.

Ah, truly the duality of man on HN: cloud everything vs on prem

How is it better than a $3/month VPS that you can easily wipe and restart as needed?

A satirical YT short came up yesterday, it's too fitting to not share.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bof8TkZkr1I?si=FeMBYGn-d5Du-GAU

This video is pretty great. “The joke is this is not a joke” comment in there… how many of us understood everything that was said and then felt like maybe we need a different hobby…

OK, that video is freaking hilarious!

from the creator of openclaw - a lot of websites block/rate-limit non-residential IPs

driving a browser in the cloud is also a bit of work

but you could put a proxy on your residential machine

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