Published Oct 24, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT

Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech.

I have become so dependent on AI that even for small tasks like summarizing or replying to emails, I always turn to cloud AIs like ChatGPT or Claude . Since I can’t stop going to AI, I have been trying to cut down on cloud AI and use self-hosted local LLMs whenever I can.

For instance, most of the time on my PC, I use Gemma 4 E4B . But I can’t always keep my PC running, so I thought of running a local LLM on my old Galaxy S23 FE.…