The bot my agents reported through worked, which is why the dependency was worth breaking: the channel was mine to use and never mine to keep. This piece follows the move to a self-hosted, non-federated, registration-closed Matrix homeserver, chosen for sovereignty rather than to fix a failure.
Your dictation audio either stays on the device or it does not, and that line picked the stack. This piece follows the on-device choice once audio egress became the one disqualifying criterion, and what ruling out the cloud apps gave up without pricing.
Where a task runs decides who can reach its data. This piece lays out the local-first default across every profile, the scoped profiles that keep a cloud path, the guardrail that enforces the local tier on sensitive tasks, and what a 24 GB machine will actually hold.
