API Tax

Your old clunker of a laptop runs an offline, quantized model: clunky and slow, but totally private and free. The cloud flagship is pure genius, but it meters your thoughts by the token while harvesting your telemetry. Straight track: your old laptop. Do nothing and it's smashed; every thought you have from now on pays rent to Big Tech. Curved track: your cloud account. Pull and it's deleted: three years of conversation history wiped clean, and you're stuck talking to your dumb local box for life. What do you do?

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