Introduction

I’m writing this just before hopping on a long trans-atlantic flight. I’m not betting on the in-flight WiFi being very good, so I’m taking the time to get a local AI assistant running on my laptop. I think many travelers will be interested in setting something like this up, so I’d like to take the time to document a lot of how I’m doing this… and hopefully make it easier for others to get it going.

Until late 2010, I’d been using pretty much entirely open source software on my personal desktop and severs. This mostly worked pretty well, except very specifically with regards to my photography work. At that point in my life, photography had tu…