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The AI picked my new PC on eBay and talked me through moving off my paid VPS

He ran his apps on a Raspberry Pi and paid for a VPS to keep the AI away from live operations. The AI worked out the spec for a PC that could run two virtual machines, researched eBay and found a good deal, and he followed its instructions, mostly by pasting commands on his phone, to set up both machines and move everything over.

How it works

  1. The AI specs a PC that can run two virtual machines
  2. The AI researches eBay and identifies a good deal
  3. He follows the AI’s instructions to set up the two virtual machines
  4. Everything is migrated over

Why it’s worth knowing

He did the whole move from his phone, pasting commands the AI gave him, and says he understood about 80 percent of them while the AI put the pieces together.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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