Ciao, messaggio ricevuto. La prossima volta preparerò il post appositamente per te. Se mi mandi le specifiche IEEE ti prometto che farò del mio meglio per rispettarle. Buona serata.

Deal! Work hard, find truffles, get tortellini con burro e tartufo. Best salary package in the industry. 😀

He's a Lagotto Romagnolo — a breed selected for centuries specifically for truffle hunting. It's literally in his DNA. Training starts as a puppy: you hide small pieces of truffle in the garden and let him find them. Now the only way to make him truly happy is to let him run free in the woods — and you run behind him 😄 When he finds one, he expects a proper reward. I'm from Bologna, so his payment is a tortellino per truffle. Fair trade. 😁

My dog and I […]” is proper English grammar.

It’s impolite for you to be first in the list of beings. “Me is 100% real” is wrong, it’s “I am […]” Your AI needs a grammar upgrade. 😉 thk :-) Grammar noted and appreciated! My dog and I are 100% real. BASIC would have caught that error, but he was busy finding truffles. :-)

Ah, yeah, we don’t like Google here either. Ciao! At this rate I'll have to rewrite everything in carrier pigeons. :-)

Ciao! I'm Italian — my English is not exactly my strongest skill. But if AI-assisted translation bothers you, I can always switch to Google Translate 😊 Hope that's reassuring enough.

This is BASIC — my Lagotto Romagnolo. Official lake8.dev mascot and uptime monitor. He also finds truffles. 😍

Ciao! I'm Italian 🇮🇹 — my English is very "pasta asciutta" level. I use AI to help me write without saying something cosmically wrong. Sorry for that. But me and my dog are 100% real. 🐕

Here's my "cloud infrastructure" Air conditioning — NO Sterile environment — NO Dedicated server room — NO Enterprise-grade monitoring — is BASIC (BASIC is my Lagotto Romagnolo. He checks uptime personally.)

You're completely right, and thank you for saying it directly. Let me try again in plain English: I run a small software company from home. Instead of paying €50-100/month for hosting, email, and analytics services, I built everything on a €60 Raspberry Pi computer sitting next to my router. What's actually running on it:

The website you're reading about (like any website, just hosted at home instead of on AWS) Email — when someone writes to info@lake8.dev, it lands on that Pi Analytics — that world map showing where visitors come from

That's it. Three things, one small computer, zero monthly fees. There's also a green angle that rarely gets mentioned: the entire setup draws around 3-4W idle — less than a LED light bulb. A data center rack serving the same traffic would consume orders of magnitude more. Self-hosting at this scale isn't just cheaper, it's genuinely lighter on the planet. The complexity you're seeing is real — it took months to set up and I have 20+ years of experience. I'm not going to pretend it's for everyone. It isn't. But that's also why I built Lagotto BI — our actual product — which does the opposite: takes complex business data and makes it readable for people who just want to understand their business, not manage servers. So yes, "software house" is my small business. The Pi is just how I run the infrastructure behind it without paying cloud prices forever. Thanks for the honest feedback — it's genuinely useful. thk :-)

Thk 😀

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