I’ve been thinking recently if maybe this is the turning point where open source software can enable mass competition with hardware vendors for a home “brain” that is installed in your mechanical space. For instance what if running self hosted LLMs that will be compute and power hungry is what turns computers for the home into the next appliance. Maybe it’s silly but something about it is giving me this reoccurring vision of a computer appliance in my basement, perhaps in line with my water heater to harness waste heat from the GPUs, and with a patch panel of HDMI/DP ports and maybe audio ports. Instead of looking like today’s computers it looks more like a furnace or box with sleds for GPUs, almost like a blade system.