Cloud AI assistants are convenient, but they come with trade-offs: your conversations live on someone else's servers, the assistant forgets you between sessions, and it stops existing the moment you close the tab. OpenClaw takes the opposite approach. It's an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own hardware, keeps its state and memory locally, and talks to you through chat apps you already use — including Telegram. Running it on your laptop works, but laptops sleep. A $5–10/month VPS...