This week, let’s talk about setting up completely private, local AI. There are many reasons to do this, from big tech and similar surveillance to working with the most confidential data that you cannot, for any reason, expose to a third party. This week’s issue is aimed at the individual, like you or me. It’s not aimed at companies and enterprises; company IT departments are responsible for assisting you with privacy protection at the organization level.
Pro Tip: If you have access to a tool like Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Google Antigravity, Qwen Code, OpenAI Codex, or other agentic frameworks, you can just copy paste this entire newsletter in and have the tool work through it with you step by step.
https://almosttimely.substack.com/p/almost-timely-news-how-to-set-up