The author had been running Qwen 3.8 Flash locally on a Strix Halo box for a month when a coworker’s Android‑tablet kiosk needed UI layout fixes. They enabled wireless debugging on the kiosk, paired it to adb on their phone, and accessed their home PC via VPN to run a Claude Code session for the repairs. The experiment illustrates a brief switch to cloud‑assisted assistance after an extended local‑only workflow.