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-## Batch 2 — Your infrastructure
+## Batch 2 — Your infrastructure — DROPPED 2026-08-19
+
+Recorded rather than deleted, so it does not get proposed again.
+
+The machine turned out to run essentially every popular self-hosted service:
+Immich, Beszel, Uptime Kuma, Sentry, Gitea with runners, Jellyfin, Plex, RomM,
+SearXNG, Open WebUI, ollama, ComfyUI, whisper, piper, the *arr stack, Vaultwarden
+and more, across a home server and a VPS. On seeing it, the plan below was
+revised once (read Beszel and Uptime Kuma rather than reimplement their polling)
+and then dropped entirely, on Gabriel's judgement, which was right:
+
+  * Almost all of it is infrastructure FOR other services rather than anything a
+    desktop would consume. whisper on the server exists to feed Bazarr's
+    subtitles, not to transcribe speech here.
+  * The desktop has a better GPU than either server, so anything worth running
+    for the desktop's sake should run on the desktop.
+  * The one genuinely desktop-shaped idea -- dictation -- is already solved on
+    this machine by Wispr Flow.
+
+The lesson is worth keeping: the services existing is not a reason to integrate
+them. A page earns its place by answering a question someone actually asks, and
+"is my media server up" is a question Uptime Kuma already answers better,
+somewhere the desktop is not.
+
+**Possible survivors, both local rather than remote.** The Nextcloud desktop
+client runs here and its sync state is a real desktop concern in the way iCloud
+Drive is; RustDesk is installed here and pairs with the RDP controls already
+built. Neither is "reach into my server", which is what was dropped.
+
+---
+
+## Batch 2, as originally written
 
 The part no shipped operating system has, because no shipped operating system
 assumes the user runs the servers.