Too much tech. I think the focus should be non-tech aides to curb tech use. Otherwise you risk yak-shaving and you're back to fiddling with tech.

The current self-host infra is absolutely a yak shaving exercise.

My point is, it doesn't have to be once the various solutions mature. Jesus it is irritating to get all the different stacks booting as services on Windows. So many of them want to install per-user, which is your first challenge. Then the next one is getting them to boot headless consistently. I had a few working, which now are back to non-working.

They could be designed to install and run natively as daemons or services, but just aren't. Even running as a desktop application, they all have API support available on localhost. (But most don't let you bind to an IP/custom port - you have to install a reverse proxy to expose them across the network, lol).

Things could be better, but they just weren't designed to be. I'm talking stuff like: ollama, invokeai, openwebui, LM Studio, faster-whisper, and so on...