I set up a local LLM on my phone and these 5 tasks proved it was worth it

I set up a local LLM on my phone and these 5 tasks proved it was worth it
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• Chatting and rewriting. Turns out privacy and speed aren’t a trade-off
• Understanding images. Image AI doesn’t need a server either
• Transcribing text. Voice typing that doesn’t wait on Wi-Fi
• Chatting with PDFs. A document that never leaves your phone
• Running a full LLM. The benchmark numbers did the convincing
• Where local AI still struggles