privacy

  • Running Local AI on a 2017 iMac: What Actually Happened

    The iMac That Couldn’t If you’ve been searching for honest, real-world results on running a local AI setup on older hardware, specifically installing Ubuntu on a 2017 iMac and running an open-source AI agent locally, this post is for you. No sponsored results. No, “It worked great!” YouTube thumbnails. Just what actually happened when I…

  • I Built a Private AI Cloud. My Data Is Mine.

    There’s a moment every creative hits when they realize the tool they’re using is also using them. Maybe it’s subtle. A response that sounds a little too polished. A suggestion that feels like it came from everyone and no one. A slow, creeping suspicion that the thing helping you think is also quietly learning from…

  • From SSH Friction to a Private LLM Cloud: Building a Private, Repeatable Ollama + EC2 Setup

    Setting up a private, cloud-powered LLM environment on AWS sounds straightforward, until you actually do it. What started as a simple goal… “run Agent Zero with Ollama on EC2 without exposing sensitive data” …quickly turned into a maze of SSH quirks, Docker inconsistencies, networking gotchas, and AWS nuances. The good news: once you get through…