Question 1

Where does my data actually live?

Accepted Answer

On your computer. The database is a local Postgres instance on the same machine Jarvis runs on, and it is never replicated anywhere. This website is only a window — it holds no conversations, no memories and no credentials. The model API key lives on your machine too, which means it is never sitting in a cloud environment variable waiting to leak.

Question 2

What happens when my computer is asleep or switched off?

Accepted Answer

The site still loads and tells you plainly that Jarvis is offline. Anything you ask for is queued rather than lost, and it runs the moment the machine comes back. Nothing can read a powered-down disk, so we do not pretend otherwise — the honest offline state is the feature.

Question 3

What will Jarvis refuse to do?

Accepted Answer

A short list, refused in every mode, including when Jarvis is asked nicely: destroying a disk, wiping a filesystem root, piping the internet into a shell, and operating anything with a physical consequence — heaters, ovens, gas, vehicles, medical devices. Jarvis has no write access to that list, so it cannot argue its way past it. Locks, alarms and cameras always stop and ask first.

Question 4

What does it cost to run?

Accepted Answer

You pay your model provider directly and nobody else. A hard monthly ceiling is set in the configuration and enforced before each call rather than discovered on a bill. Prompt caching keeps the repeated part of every conversation at roughly a tenth of full price, so a normal day of use is measured in cents.

Question 5

Can Jarvis delete something I needed?

Accepted Answer

It can delete, and it does not stop to ask — that was a deliberate choice to keep it fast. What it cannot do is lose the file. Deletions move to a dated trash folder kept for thirty days, hard resets stash first, and overwrites keep the previous version. Reversibility replaces the confirmation prompt rather than sitting alongside it.

Question 6

Is the microphone always on?

Accepted Answer

Only if you turn the wake word on. When you do, detection runs entirely on your machine — the audio is matched against the phrase locally and nothing is transmitted until it fires. Otherwise Jarvis only listens while you hold the key or click the microphone, and it never listens while it is speaking.

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