Custody · local-first
Your data & where it lives
A plain-English tour: what “the cloud” actually is under the paint, why someone else’s datacenter means someone else has your bytes, and how Coffee biases toward the browser and your home machine so you keep custody by default — not because magic, but because of where we chose to put state.
Pairs with Coffee Home & the Home Cloud (LAN, services you run) and API keys & Key Vault (secrets in your profile, not our disks).
Datacenters & custody
Server farms, copies, another company’s disks
Files, rows & blobs
JSON, photos, databases — all bytes on somebody’s SSDs
The default SaaS bargain
Convenience vs who holds the canonical copy
Coffee in the browser
IndexedDB, local-first demos, what we don’t upload
Home cloud & your disk
Paths you own, Vault roots, Coffee Server on your machine
Owning your data for real
Backup, export, limits of “local-only,” healthy paranoia