I replaced NotebookLM with a local LLM, and the difference is night and day
… Of course, where it’s a different experience from NotebookLM is that the model still has all of its training data. …
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Google Drive's free tier just became a trap, and here's what changed
… My phone number is another data point for advertisers I already receive enough spam texts Google already scans data stored on its servers for advertising and AI training. …
Google's Gemma 4 finally made me care about running local LLMs
… Because it's all local, I can throw in sensitive stuff without worrying about data leaving my device. The offline fallback is something I personally find really helpful too! For a free model, this is as good as it gets No limits, no privacy concerns, extremely fast responses. …
The engineer behind NotebookLM's best features showed me his exact setup, and it changes everything
… It doesn't pull from the wider web or its training data, and every response comes with citations pointing back to exactly where it got its information from. …