Right now, I don’t want to pay for a VPS yet. What I wanted was simple: chat from Telegram, run the agent on my Ubuntu laptop, read my Obsidian vault, and help screen Upwork jobs. It sounded clean. On day one? Honestly, it wasn’t all clean. Why I Started Doing This As a web freelancer, my daily work repeats a lot: check Upwork, write proposals, note my agenda, sometimes do email outreach. Most of that already lives in my Obsidian vault, and that vault syncs to GitHub too. I didn’t need an AI that’s great at chatting. I needed an…