I use pi and librechat and I am really limited by the lack of proper web connector. Testing Tavily right now, Kagi is next.

I wonder why I see so few comments about it on HN, does everybody have this figured out already? Am I a dummy? Am I severely overstating how important of a frature web access and search is for LLM use?

For playback, I mainly use Navidrome.

For autotagging and importing (moving files), Beets.

For tagging edge cases, MusicBrainz Picard as the GUI and the Python tagging lib underneath it (mutagen iirc) with an LLM inside the pi cli agent for automation.

For format conversion and copying to portable devices, ffmpeg in custom bash scripts managed by an LLM.

Excuse me, what?

It's easy to have a principled stance when the only currency it costs you is your own convenience and standard of living. For many people, life is not as simple as that.

I use Openrouter for everything except Deepseek. For Deepseek I use their API directly.

As far as I know, the source of the graphics was not the unifying receiver that I plugged in the USB port, and the notification was not using any OS API meant for hardware to be avle to prompt the user for additional download. It was a Logitech-built DLL shipped and loaded by the operating system as part of some default driver for the Logitech keyboard.

LLMs became so good that I don't trust a codebase like Immich to have ports to my server exposed publicly.

I put everything behind Wireguard to limit the number of lines of code that might bring down my setup.

I could just call it a "home" lab server. But I actually use it as a general purpose computer, not just a server.