TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
Who Should Actually Run a Local LLM in 2026 — and Who Should Keep Paying $20
The answer depends entirely on which of six readers you are. For most of them, the honest answer is no. Here is…
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Tech & Digital Resilience
TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
You Can Run AI Without the Cloud. Here’s What That Gets You — and What It Doesn’t.
Training-data lawsuits, preserved chat logs, models retired on two weeks' notice. There's a reasonable question underneath all of it: can you use…
TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
Self-Host Your Passwords with Vaultwarden: Every Premium Feature, Zero Subscription
Bitwarden doubled Premium to $19.80 a year and 1Password jumped 33% — while your vault still lives in someone else's building. Vaultwarden…
TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
Pi-hole in a Weekend: Network-Wide Ad Blocking for Every Device You Own
Your smart TV is phoning home and your phone apps are reporting to analytics endpoints — and neither can run an ad…
SMART HOME
Local-First Home Automation: A Home Assistant Setup That Survives Internet Outages
When the AWS outage turned smart homes dumb, some households never noticed. The difference is architecture: a local-first Home Assistant setup that…
TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
Self-Hosting Email: Own Your Digital Identity
A practical guide to self-hosting email — what it takes, what it costs, and whether it's right for you. Honest trade-offs included.
TECH & DIGITAL RESILIENCE
Project N.O.M.A.D. on Mac mini M4: When the Grid Goes Down, Your Knowledge Doesn’t
Run an offline knowledge server on your Mac mini M4 with Project N.O.M.A.D. — Wikipedia, AI chat, maps, and tools. Zero internet…