The hardest question when trying to adopt a new technology or workflow is "How do I even start?". Searching for the answer to that question is now more difficult than ever. Everything AI related is, guess what..., polluted with AI generated slop. From fake AI generated YouTube tutorials, to AI generated blogs and search results. Of course, most of it is just pure slop that doesn't work.
Actual human personal experience is hard to find, so I'm here to share that with you. I'm going to post here my setup, from start to finish, just to provide an example of a working system. You are free to adapt each step to your own preferences.
IMPORTANT: All of the software listed here is free, open source and is run locally. Because I'm honestly sick of articles and tutorials that have one purpose: to lure you in to using their own cloud hosted subscription based tools.
Prerequisites and my hardware
Windows
