Twenty years of Linux, and now I run my own AI

I've been running Linux and Ubuntu for nearly 20 years. I can date it almost exactly, because I still have the email from my Dad back in early 2007 telling me he'd just installed Ubuntu. That's where this started.

The big trend the last couple of years is obviously AI and the large language models, and this balancing act between what you can run yourself on your own machine versus what you get…

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How to Build a Private Offline Voice Assistant with Gemma 4 12B: A Complete Local Setup Guide

A developer’s guide to running Google’s 11.95B-parameter multimodal model with local STT/TTS on a 16 GB laptop under Apache 2.0.

TL;DR: Download Gemma 4 12B (~6.7 GB at 4-bit) into a local runtime such as Google AI Edge Gallery, pair it with a local STT/TTS stack, and expose a local endpoint.…

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