hendrik

I don’t think the internet gave particularly good advice here. Sure, there are use-cases for both, and that’s why we have both approaches available. But you can’t say VMs are better than containers. They’re a different thing. They might even be worse in your case. But I mean in the end, all “simple thruths” are wrong.

Thanks, and I happen to already be aware of it. It doesn’t have any of that. And it’s more complicated to hook it into other things, since the good old postfix is the default case and well-trodden path. I think I’ll try Stalwart anyways. It’s a bit of a risk, though. Since it’s a small project with few developers and the future isn’t 100% certain. And I have to learn all the glue in between the mailserver stuff, since there aren’t any tutorials out there. But both the frontend, and the configuration and setup seem to make sense.

I’ve always been looking for an all-in-one mailserver with a few added features like mailing lists and something like AnonAddy (anonymous mail forwarding). Sadly there doesn’t seem anything like that out there. So I have to configure postfix and dovecot myself. Or make ends meet with a bit more basic features.

In my experience, all the 3 big ones work just fine. Caddy, Traefik, Nginx. I use Nginx.

By the way, concerning the loose surge protector: Good thing you replaced that. If you see something like that, and it’s mains voltage, always replace it ASAP. Not because it doesn’t look nice or the RasPi gets unhooked… But because it’s a proper fire hazard. A whole house can burn down if you have a loose mains connection and that somehow leads to electrical sparks.

Yes, Deepseek V3 is a model. But what I was trying to say, you download the file. But then what? Just having the file stored on your harddisk doesn’t do much. You need to run it. That’s called “inference” in machine learning/AI terms. The repository you linked, contains some example code how to do it with Huggingface’s Transformer library. But there are quite some frameworks out there for running AI models. Ollama would be another one. And it’s not just some example code where to start with your own Python program, but a ready-made project/framework with tools and frontends available and an interface for other software to hook into.

And generally, you need some software to actually do something. And how fast it is, depends on the software used, the hardware it’s executed on. And in this case, also on the size of the AI model and its architecture. But yeah, Deepseek V3 has some tricks up it’s sleeves to make it very efficient. Though, it is really big for home use. I think we’re looking at a mid six-figures price for the hardware to run it. Usually, people use Deepseek R1 models. Or other smaller AI models if they run them themselves.

Btw, Ollama is a software to run AI models. Deepseek is just a company. Or a model file or a service. But that’s not what OP is looking for. They want to run a model. And that needs software like Ollama.

Would you recommend the Discord bridge? I’ve always wanted to install that as well. Is there anything I want to know before putting in the effort to install and configure it?