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Guide to running AI models locally on Linux—no cloud required—for privacy, low latency, cost control, and reliability. Covers setup, hardware tips, and quantized models; quick start with Ollama, power-user builds with llama.cpp (CPU/GPU, GGUF, HTTP server), offline speech-to-text with whisper.cpp, CLI/API scripting examples, and tuning advice to keep everything fast and fully under your control.