Were all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank powered AIs? Datacenters got you down? Worried that even the most innocuous questions will spin up AI models running in water guzzling, energy sucking, planet destroying hyperscalers? You need CrankGPT. No, were not talking about surrendering to AI psychosis : were talking about a literal hand cranked machine loaded with a voice agent that can respond to questions and even translate speech into other languages, provided someone...

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