News Summary

• Local-first apps write to your hard drive instantly and sync to the cloud in the background.
• The cloud is still there for backup and collaboration, but it's not a turnstile you have to pay or wait to pass through.
• Every time an app ships your data to a server, it makes a copy somewhere you don't control.
• On-device AI keeps your most sensitive inputs (your files, the questions you'd never type into a public chatbot) where they belong.
• The safest server is the one you never had to trust.