Syncing data across devices is undeniably convenient and helpful, and for the most part, we tend to trust the fact that our data is kept safe. Your clipboard is typically tied to a user account protected by a password and (hopefully) two-factor authentication, so there should be no reason to worry. And yet, hacks happen. Data is sold by large corporations all the time for advertising revenue, and you never know when your private data may end up in some else's hands. It can seem innocuous, but we copy all kinds of things on our computers, including emails and passwords. Having that information
I replaced my cloud clipboard manager with a local one, and it fixed a privacy problem I ignored for years…Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi…
…support and you don't mind attaching yet another box to your NAS, you're out of luck. TrueNAS is brilliant in that it can run on almost anything. An old gaming…
…MCP support is the clearest case - it's there, but you have to wire it up piece by piece. And it also doesn't have audio support, which is why I went…
…page collegiate thesis on any game that impacts him emotionally. Sign in to your XDA account Summary Local LLMs have swiftly improved and can rival cloud models on capable hardware. Setup, research…
…It's essentially a Cloudflare Tunnel, but you're self-hosting it, so everything is under your control, and it's rapidly becoming my favorite reverse proxy and VPN solution. Related 9…
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account I've been running local…
Ayush Pande May 27, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…Likewise, Home Assistant supports Ollama and other LLM providers, including those that hook up to cloud servers, for some wacky AI shenanigans (which I’ll discuss in a minute). However, the real…
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account Self-hosting AI started as…
…Bento supports some wacky combos. For example, it can transform typical spreadsheets, presentations, and text files into PDFs, and even OpenOffice, Microsoft Publisher, and Apple Pages formats are fair game. Likewise, I…