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[courtg9000]

Buying the book and burying the lot might not be a bad idea.
lets just say chummy paid £30k for it.
Add onto that god only knows how much he has paid to Trethowans and a load on top thats probably outstanding/not invoiced yet.
He will never get a billion back in settlements!
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[courtg9000]

I have fond memories of me being stuck in Frankfurt* one weekend back in 2003. It could have been a weekend from hell. I hired a Porsche and did some serious driving!

*For the non cognisant amongst you. If god wanted to give the world an enema. Frankfurt is where the hole would be. Its...

[courtg9000]

If you are handy with a webserver https://localai.io/#start
Perhaps set this up, self hosted web front ends are available and then you would just need to find an LLM to suit your dad. it might work
This github might be worth a peruse if you want to stand something up https://github.com/...

[courtg9000]

A longer term strategy I have used more than once in more than one location in which I have lived and I appreciate that you might not feel able to copy the strategy for various reasons.

1) find the local pub where the trades drink,
2) go in there regularly
3) get your face known...

[courtg9000]

I agree...

[courtg9000]

This is quite serious as there are new mobile phone policies for schools, not only that but some schools only allow brick phones, calls, yes, texts yes, anything else no. A friend of mine has a son going to one of these schools and they say its an absolute pain....

[courtg9000]

Probably better off trying a handman for that, might be easier to find.
Most trades as you say want the larger money jobs....

[courtg9000]

But look at what some outsourcers staff can do with just an IP, a username and password allegedley! ...

[courtg9000]

I think I agree with you on Home Assistant, its a bit bloated and a time killer!...

[courtg9000]

my recallbox and kodi instance is fully tricked out. Im sure you can read between the lines with regards to Kodi I have about 250 retro games, Streetfighter and Outrun are still favourites even after all these years!

The bloomberg replacement runs debian and im only part way through...

[courtg9000]

lots of updates, some new stuff being installed, looks like I will be in and out of hospital this winter so this server will get a kicking in places. My Nextcloud instance gets a lot of use....

[courtg9000]

3 of em!
One webserver, a many trick pony. Nextcloud, Fresh RSS, WordPress, Jelly fin etc
One Recalbox - Retro gaming and Kodi TV
One currently being fitted out as a poor mans Bloomberg.
I might get another for crypto.

[courtg9000]

One of the words in the title of this post is "Spurious"
The documentation for a lot of ITT's can be light enough in some cases to be spurious!...

[courtg9000]

Just refitting my webserver ready for the worst of winter

[courtg9000]

Im not sure exactly what is outsourced. I just know from a quick google that CGI and BT have the contracts. BT for me is very scary, Crapita even worse. TCS however could give me sleepless nights....

[courtg9000]

CGI and BT have the IT contracts apparently. I dont know CGI but I have had experience of BT's IT outsourcing - painful is the word I would use! Only outfit I think I have seen that are worse than Crapita!...

[courtg9000]

Ok So I tried some of QWEN LLMS and they are much better.
Still trying to heavy duty LLM that is smaller than 8GB!
LM studio is still a cool tool. https://lmstudio.ai
With 16GB of RAM it can be a little sluggish. I might have to treat myself to a laptop with 32 GB RAM for an xmas pressie!...