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Local AI: From Desk to Inference Server

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The most revealing metric for local AI is not printed boldly on the box. It is called memory bandwidth, it is measured in gigabytes per second, and it decides whether a model runs smoothly on your machine or stutters slowly to death. Anyone serious about experimenting with AI who leans on the TOPS and NPU figures is looking in the wrong place. Compute has grown cheap. Bandwidth is the scarce resource.

Tool Sovereignty

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a sentence that gets spoken more often than any other this decade, and it sounds like insight but is really capitulation: Well, in the end everything is transparent anyway.

What it refers to is the mood that crept in like damp into a cellar — the assumption that every app phones home, every device emits telemetry, every cloud can read your data regardless, and there is simply no fighting it anymore. Anyone who talks like this thinks of themselves as realistic. Really they have given up and are looking for an elegant formulation for it.

Self-Hosting: Sovereignty in Your Own Hands

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It usually begins with a simple question: Can I do this myself?

A photo album. A file share. A team wiki. Something you are currently using — from a provider who offers it conveniently, free or cheap, with a pretty interface. And then a moment when you realise: the data lives somewhere. Not here. Not with me. With someone I do not know, under conditions I cannot influence.

That moment is the beginning of self-hosting. And it changes more than you initially suspect.