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