Two self-hosted AI assistants compared: features, smart home, cost, security, and digital self-determination Let’s imagine Jonas. It’s a Tuesday evening in March, it’s drizzling outside, and Jonas is sitting on his bike at a red light. His hands are cold, his head is full, and suddenly there’s this one thought: the garage door. Did he […]
It is a Sunday afternoon in July, and Felix is sitting in front of a grey box that hums softly beside his router in the living-room cupboard. The box is a NAS (Network Attached Storage, a small always-on storage server for the home), and on it sit three terabytes of his professional life. Proposals, contracts,
A Friday Evening, an Automation, and a Small Deception It’s just past ten, the kids are asleep, the dishes are still in the sink, and Miriam really has no energy left for technology. Yet she sits on the sofa with her laptop, because she’s been annoyed by a small thing for weeks: when she walks
It is just past midnight, and Marlene can’t stop staring at her screen. She’s a copywriter — freelance, for twelve years — and she has just done something she would have considered impossible a year ago: she threw a vague idea at a machine, “write me an opening about the history of the Viennese coffeehouse
An Introduction to RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Why Our Data Needs a Memory and How AI Learns to Browse It It’s 10:14 PM, and Felix gives up. For four hours he has been searching for a presentation he is fairly certain he gave three years ago. Tomorrow a client wants to know what was discussed back
Obsidian as a Second Brain with OpenClaw or Claude A Message from the Train It’s 7:42 PM when Mark is waiting for his train at Mannheim Central Station. Two hours of workshop still sit heavy in his bones, his head still buzzing with slides and flip charts and right in that moment, somewhere between the
Lena’s Fourteen Tabs It’s a Tuesday morning in spring, and Lena is staring at an email from Anthropic. Subject: “Your usage limit has been reached.” â¬847 in 72 hours. Lena, 34, runs a small content agency in Zurich. Three employees, a dozen clients, and for the past few months, an experiment: AI agents for routine
How machines learned to speak, sing and grow close to us with AI audio. The Song Nobody Sang It was mid-April 2023, shortly after Easter, when a track started circulating on TikTok that sounded like a collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd. The voice was raw, the beat silky, the songwriting polished — everything you’d
Lena, 28, a business informatics student from Leipzig, was staring at her phone screen with a problem: a page full of flashcard apps, three open browser tabs with statistics scripts, and a course ending in six weeks. The exam on regression analysis was within reach — and yet she felt like she knew nothing. So
The Great Naming Confusion in the AI Industry Anyone reading technical articles about AI integration these days needs strong nerves and a good memory. A Microsoft blog post explains why Connectors are the key to enterprise AI. An Anthropic post promotes Skills. An OpenAI developer tutorial revolves around Actions. And a Google whitepaper covers Function Calling. At first glance, this