wow, I wanted to have this for a long time. I looked at Crystal, but it never sat right with me.

I think some of the limitations can still be implemented (definitely Threads and Mutex), and I'd prefer it to compile to LLVM-IR or something, not C, but overall I think it is great to see Matz playing around with AOT compiling.

How convenient for Amazon to block a competitor this way :(

I signed up for openrouter to play with openclaw (in a fresh vm), I added a few $, but wow, does it burn through those quickly. (And I even used a pretty cheap model, deepseek v3.2).

Which enclosure do you use, and can you recommend it?

Email is endgame, I suggest you get more experience self hosting in other areas first.

I concur. I did mention there was a rush and foolhardiness. That's my mid 30s excitement. Let me revel a bit :P

I do want to be able to take control; with photos and Google not giving me a folder view to manage them was the last straw that pushed me deep into the self hosted world. I just want to de-google as much as reasonable.

or keep the port and move to IPv6 only.

If you switch the Firefox Snap to the latest/candidate/core24 channel, hardware acceleration should work.