Far from being a Mac Mini, the reference home assistant hardware is spec-for-spec a 4Gb Orange Pi 3B: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ https://www.home-assi

Far from being a Mac Mini, the reference home assistant hardware is spec-for-spec a 4Gb Orange Pi 3B: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ A far cry from your claim of "it cannot be done". And the $40 retail sticker for that board doesn't seem to match up with your claim about pricing. Even low cost modern SoCs have NPUs in the double-digit TOPs, and memory densities being what they are, there's very little excuse not to run a special purpose language processing model on device. A 128gbit (8GB) memory module goes for as little as $0.04 ea on digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4IgjCBcpgLATFUBjKAzAhgGwM4FMAaEAeygG0QA2WABgGYAOAdhAF0iAHAFyhAGUuAJwCWAOwDmIAL5EAnJQjQQqSJlyES5EHVoBWJnTacekfkLGSpMkIkgUAJoIwBbI1SQhh93gFowNCGNeECIuAE8OPF4MHFQrIA https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4Ig...