
Every Robot in My House Can Text Me Now
My house is full of automation that never told me anything — until I gave it one push bus. The first thing I taught it to do was warn me before Claude Code cuts out mid-task.

My house is full of automation that never told me anything — until I gave it one push bus. The first thing I taught it to do was warn me before Claude Code cuts out mid-task.

Zero-shot voice cloning with XTTS-v2 on a CPU-only k3s node: 26 seconds of phone audio in, a cloned-voice audiobook out — and an honest verdict from the bedtime jury. Every manual step, including the ones that went wrong.

A CPU-only self-hosted LLM stack running on k3s: llama.cpp as the inference server, Open WebUI as the chat interface, deployed as a single Git push.