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Your own overseas Mac mini, with Claude Code ready to go
CCRent rents dedicated Mac mini M4 machines (16 GB / 256 GB) hosted overseas on residential broadband with their own IP. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Xcode, Homebrew and Git come preinstalled, with a Claude Max 5x or 20x plan active. Connect via UU Remote, ToDesk, RustDesk or Tailscale + SSH. Paid monthly. CCRent is an independent provider, not affiliated with Anthropic.
Private, on-device speech to text for AI assistants
Yap MCP is a free, open-source MCP server (MIT) that lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and any MCP client transcribe local audio and video files on your own computer. It uses NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3, detects 25 European languages automatically, adds optional timestamps and can search your Yap dictation history (read-only). No upload, no API key and no account. The speech model (about 670 MB) downloads once and then works offline. Runs on macOS, Windows and Linux with Node.js 20 or newer.
| Detail | CCRent | Yap MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Subscription | Free |
| Categories | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| Website | ccrent.org | yapapp.cc |
| First listed | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Tags | claude code, cloud mac, mac mini | transcription, mcp |
