I've used Piper for local TTS before, and Kokoro looks like an interesting

Postgres features still "just work" behind the pooler.

This looks very close to what I want from AI tools: not just chat, but memory + actual work surfaces around

Thanks, that's exactly the bet. Chat-heavy AI usage seems like a temporary phase.

Nice guide. I like the focus on preservation rather than just "getting the files off the disk".

Base64 without error correction turns the t-shirt itself into a lossy transport layer, so the OCR/transcription step becomes the actual challenge.